Jet Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 I am so glad I found this group. First of all, I am a proficient autocad user and I have been doing all of my modeling in AutoCAD and exporting it to max. I have been teaching myself how to use max and i have the old max 3.1 One of the problems that I have is that when I have modeled a project in AutoCAD and I import it to max, when i want to modify something, if it is on the same layer as other objects, it will affect all of the other objects on that layer in max, this is bad, because if i do all of my walls on one layer, when i get into max and i want to modify just one wall i messes up all the other walls. Or doors for example, I wanted to do an animation and have the doors open as the camera approached the doors, but if i tried to rotate on door, it would rotate all of the other doors, any help that can be given on this is appreciated. jet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 Looks like you'll need to detach part of the mesh. I think layers imports as objects into max/viz right? For example - you have a "DOORS" layer in autocad and when you bring it into max it becomes a single mesh called "DOORS_01" or whatever name max gives it. Well, then you need select this object - go to edit-mesh modifier in the modify panel - suboject mode polygon- detach mesh. It will create a new object (mesh). Try that. Keep asking questions - we can gladly help you. Xavier [ May 30, 2003, 10:19 AM: Message edited by: xgarcia ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 Hi jet, Its in the import dialog, derive objects by layer, but uncheck the convert to single objects. Now your spline are all seperated and have names like this: 00_DOORS_LAYER.01, 00_DOORS_LAYER.02, 00_DOORS_LAYER.03, etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Posted May 30, 2003 Author Share Posted May 30, 2003 Thanks! I am going to try that and play with it some more and see if my luck changes in that. This deadline is fastly approaching, and I told myself that I was absolutely going to turn in a final product with max as opposed to my more comfortable accurender this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 great tip quizzy - didn tknow that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 1, 2003 Share Posted June 1, 2003 Hi Jet, Great to see another 3.1-user around. My advice: get rid of autocad for modelling and take full use of max. History stack, Sub-object modeling, spline modeling, parametric objects etc. will all aid when changes cross you path often! rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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