CAD file linked to 3Ds Max issue

[gpsii]

Hi all,

 

I'm linking a CAD file to a new scene in 3ds Max 2013 and the perspective of the geometry appears all black so the perspective view is useless.

The CAD file also brings into the scene some cameras as "ole objects" which I can't delete.

Couple months ago I was using 3ds Max 2005 and I didn't have that problem until I upgraded to 2013.

 

Am I missing something?

Any tips on why and how to fix this problem?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you!

[Francisco Penaloza]

I never used the cameras from Auto CAD, so no comments on that one, but if you want to delete any mesh from your linked CAD file, you need to merge the mesh, although this will delete the interactive link between both of them.

Other solution could be, put the cameras in a separated layer inside Auto CAD, then during the linking with MAX exclude that Layer.

[gpsii]

Francisco,

Thank you for your comment. The weird thing is that I'm not using cameras in autocad, when I link the CAD file to 3ds Max those cameras appear out of nothing, and I can't either delete them not convert them to mesh.

Actually, I just tried reloading the file deselecting "camera" in the reload dialogue box.

Still all the geometry shows black, you can see that in the attached image:

 

[andstef]

try the following:

select the objects imported from autocad, go to utilities, click "more" select "UVW Remove" and click "materials" to remove the materials, I had this problem and i fixed it this way.

[gpsii]

Andrei,

 

Thank you for the tip. This solved my initial problem but when I reload the linked file the geometry goes all black again.

If I remove the materials I have to attach each material to each object again, I would have to repeat this process each and every time that I reload the linked file.

Is there any other solution to this?

I don't understand why this is happening now and it never was an issue on the earlier versions of 3ds Max.

[Francisco Penaloza]

When you link your CAD file, in the option menu, there is a option to keep scene materials, if this is not checked it will re import the CAD materials every time you re link or update.

[gpsii]

Got it! Now this makes a difference. Thanks very much.