Hi Guys/girls,
I'm after your experience with importing STEP files into Max2012.
In the past I've used npower translaters for a few years but got fed up of the poor support and inconsistent upgrades plus an expensive renewal price every year for a recompile and bug fix to work with the yearly release of Max on sub.
At the moment I'm using InventorLT 2011 to import the STEP and export as Inventor IPT which Max2012 can now import natively as a bodyobject (although I understand Autodesk are using a limited version of the npower plugin to do this), this has proved stable and reliable but I have been getting some models in from a Solidworks client who exporting to STEP, which imports into Inventor perfectly but when I import the .ipt into MAX I'm getting bad (twisted) fillets and splits between surface patches.
The Max bodyobject doesn't have much/any ability to resolve these issues and I'm finding it hard to figure out at what stage something has gone wrong: client SW model, export to STEP, import into Inventor or import into Max.
I'm considering trying Ngraf's Polytrans but their wed-site (seems very verbose) and plugin with CAD extension model seem antiquated and expensive. Has anyone used them and could compare the model translation quality to npower's?
Any ideas how to check the client model is built ok in the first place, as I've had some of their models work fine?
Any suggests on an alternative workflow?
your help is, as always, much appreciated. Thanks.
I'm after your experience with importing STEP files into Max2012.
In the past I've used npower translaters for a few years but got fed up of the poor support and inconsistent upgrades plus an expensive renewal price every year for a recompile and bug fix to work with the yearly release of Max on sub.
At the moment I'm using InventorLT 2011 to import the STEP and export as Inventor IPT which Max2012 can now import natively as a bodyobject (although I understand Autodesk are using a limited version of the npower plugin to do this), this has proved stable and reliable but I have been getting some models in from a Solidworks client who exporting to STEP, which imports into Inventor perfectly but when I import the .ipt into MAX I'm getting bad (twisted) fillets and splits between surface patches.
The Max bodyobject doesn't have much/any ability to resolve these issues and I'm finding it hard to figure out at what stage something has gone wrong: client SW model, export to STEP, import into Inventor or import into Max.
I'm considering trying Ngraf's Polytrans but their wed-site (seems very verbose) and plugin with CAD extension model seem antiquated and expensive. Has anyone used them and could compare the model translation quality to npower's?
Any ideas how to check the client model is built ok in the first place, as I've had some of their models work fine?
Any suggests on an alternative workflow?
your help is, as always, much appreciated. Thanks.
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