CADZINE Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 Hi, I have drawn a 'kitchen layout' using basic AutoCAD P-line and extrusion commands. Each component are on their relative layers. As everyone knows rendering in AutoCAD is quite basic and not quite good enough for a presentation. Howver, I have downloaded a demo version of Bryce hoping to come across some magical answer. Problem. My AutoCAD drawing consists of about 20 blocks (which amount to no more than 900kb total) but i am trying these out one at a time. When I export one block it seems to give up after 20 seconds, even though i have given it a good five minutes to export! I drew a simple cylinder and that exported with no problems into Bryce in seconds Is there a way of simply drawing 3D objects (pline, extrusion commands etc) that do not turn out to be monster files! eg: Block to export - 250kb..hangs after 20 seconds or so. Is there a simple formula of settings for drawing these 3D objects in AutoCAD 2006? Any response would be much appreciated. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CADZINE Posted September 12, 2005 Author Share Posted September 12, 2005 Need to be a bit more patient!! Basically, export to 3DS and leave your computer while it sorts it out! Dont touch anything or AutoCAD will freeze and not respond!!! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geej Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 the 3ds export seems to create 1mb bmp files of each graphic elemment. why bitmaps ? the process can take hours or simply freeze and it takes hours to realise its frozen cause youve gone off and done other things. is there a way of changing the defaults and avoiding this ? to be honest graphic programs need a microsoft or google approach - ie some standard in conversion . from what i see each program has its own import / export software that works 70 percent of the time and the 30 percent that doesnt work occurs when you want to use it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Why are you replying to a 6-yr old thread with no new and useful information? Autodesk has a suggestion link http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794 ...is there a way of changing the defaults and avoiding this ? Oops, I missed your question when I read this initially - I think you would have been better off starting a new thread and describe only your problem statement. Attaching an example file here might help arriving at solution as well. Are you using 3DS Max 8 or 2008? (was there such a release) What version of AutoCAD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Is this a question about exporting from Bryce? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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