How to make a curved 3d object smooth?

[mcaldo]

As title says, I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

In autocad 2008 it shows as smooth, but when I import to 3ds max, it shows as faceted.

I have surtab1 and 2 at 100. isolines at 100. facetres at 10.

any ideas?

When i render in autocad its smooth, but when in max, it renders faceted... aarghhh

[shift1313]

your surftab 1 and 2 will control the number of faces(before) in your mesh. Facetres only alters the render and display resolution in autocad and will have no affect on how 3ds views the object. I have very little experience with 3ds so im not sure how you will control this in 3ds.

Is your object a solid, surface, mesh?

[mcaldo]

HI, yes it's a an oval mirror frame, created using extrude along a path to give the shape, so solid. I have read up on polygons in 3ds max, so maybe that is it? I'm trying to see how i alter that at the minute.

thanks for the reply!!

[shift1313]

i think you can do a turbo smooth modifier and it doubles the mesh cells(i think)

[Cad64]

It has to do with your Import settings in Max. Have a look at these threads:

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=21469
http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=25060

[mcaldo]

Thanks mr cad64!

I changed the import settings to similar to one of those threads, great help.

It's smoooth now. :-)

I'll be on here to ask more questions soon! :-)

[hanaan]

As title says, I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

In autocad 2008 it shows as smooth, but when I import to 3ds max, it shows as faceted.

I have surtab1 and 2 at 100. isolines at 100. facetres at 10.

any ideas?

When i render in autocad its smooth, but when in max, it renders faceted... aarghhh

How to make a curved 3d object smooth?
As title says, I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

In autocad 2008 it shows as smooth, but when I import to 3ds max, it shows as faceted.

I have surtab1 and 2 at 100. isolines at 100. facetres at 10.

any ideas?

When i render in autocad its smooth, but when in max, it renders faceted... aarghhh

[Cad64]

hanaan, do you have a question? This one has already been answered.