mcaldo Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaldo Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 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!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 i think you can do a turbo smooth modifier and it doubles the mesh cells(i think:)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcaldo Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 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! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanaan Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 hanaan, do you have a question? This one has already been answered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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