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Importing DWGs to 3DSMax for Architectural Visualization

By Arq. Octavio Verdugo B.
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Date Added: 16th June 2009
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Depending on the units used, you might or might not see your plan on screen.
In case you don't see your object, click on the "zoom extents” button which is on the lower right of your screen.

You can go to the "Tools” menu and select "Layer Manager”. There you can turn off or on any layers you like, just like in AutoCAD. Note: The Layer Manager window only displays the layers that were selected while importing your file. If you wish you can import ALL of the layers from the DWG file and then just turn them off in Max's Layer Manager.

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Next you can select splines, convert them to editable mesh objects and extrude, bevel or edit them as you would do any objects within 3DSMax.

That's about it for this tutorial. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. I really hope this was of some help.


 
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(ID: 162073, pid: 0) Dixit on Wed, 14 November 2012 10:26am
Very useful, thank you. I was tried with my data (dwg file containing 3D buildings) to import in 3D Max, but the data was not properly imported i observed that some of the buildings getting shapedout and building position was moved at some vertices. please help me in this regard thank you.
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(ID: 129546, pid: 0) George on Sun, 01 July 2012 1:51am
yea...hw is scaling done?
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(ID: 95017, pid: 0) Oumhani on Thu, 15 March 2012 6:44am
very helpful, thank you very much
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