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One of the main reasons our office has not fully moved over to Max9 and Autodesk Architecture 2008 is that we have found seemingly random failures in the File Linking between out ADT models and Max9. It will function normally but then suddenly, for no apparent reason, after various changes to the ADT model, reloading the file linked model into Max9 just doesn't work. The dialogue box doesn't appear. It just stops functioning.
We had pinned it down to *complex* (not at all complex really, we're just talking holes cut out of walls etc) boolean operations that we had performed in our ADT model. The only way we can resolve is to undo in ADT to as far back as we *think* the error may have occurred, re-save and then the file linking starts working again. The problem with this is that many tasks may have occurred since this *complex* boolean op, so these would all need to be re-done! Incidentally, we have found that you cannot simply delete the offending object from the ADT model - you need to actually undo past the point when the operation was performed.
Essentially, due to the major problems this has caused on a number of jobs (including loss of assigned/mapped textures, lighting, cameras and the need to redo all the Max part of our project), we have had to come off the subscription program and stick with Max8 (32bit) as nobody seems to acknowledge this as a problem and therefore there is no solution.
Blimey, this is getting a bit long-winded!
Anyway, I attach a simple file created in AutoCAD Architecture 2008 which seems to exhibit this problem. The drawing consists of a few simple railings, each as a separate element. As it stands, the file links in just fine. However, if you union the elements of the railing, save the file and try and reload, the link fails. Could somebody confirm this is the case and it is not just our office that is having this problem?
We had pinned it down to *complex* (not at all complex really, we're just talking holes cut out of walls etc) boolean operations that we had performed in our ADT model. The only way we can resolve is to undo in ADT to as far back as we *think* the error may have occurred, re-save and then the file linking starts working again. The problem with this is that many tasks may have occurred since this *complex* boolean op, so these would all need to be re-done! Incidentally, we have found that you cannot simply delete the offending object from the ADT model - you need to actually undo past the point when the operation was performed.
Essentially, due to the major problems this has caused on a number of jobs (including loss of assigned/mapped textures, lighting, cameras and the need to redo all the Max part of our project), we have had to come off the subscription program and stick with Max8 (32bit) as nobody seems to acknowledge this as a problem and therefore there is no solution.
Blimey, this is getting a bit long-winded!
Anyway, I attach a simple file created in AutoCAD Architecture 2008 which seems to exhibit this problem. The drawing consists of a few simple railings, each as a separate element. As it stands, the file links in just fine. However, if you union the elements of the railing, save the file and try and reload, the link fails. Could somebody confirm this is the case and it is not just our office that is having this problem?
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