so with individual licenses ended and suites ending in July - is it worth upgrading max to a building design suite? 2 things:
1) we often get revit files from clients that end up a pain in max. Mostly because we end up receiving the complete 400+mb revit file of the complete building, when we are only doing a perspective of the foyer. So all the toilets and detailed doorhandles etc. gets in and is a pain to get rid of in max. Then the materials - its fairly normal to end up in max with 150+ materials that you need to edit down to the 10 or so that you end up using. And then the client sends an updated Revit file....... plus some other changes they could not get done in revit. So my question is this : We don't have Revit, but is it not a good thing to have? Is it not easier and quicker to edit the revit file in revit (sort out materials, cut unneeded stuff out, do whatever changes the client requires) and then just import and render in max? Autodesk makes my clients belief it is as easy as opening the Revit file in Max and press render, while it certainly is not with the revit files I receive. Or are we just doing something wrong on our side. I am sure there must be a way to organise a revit file that makes working in max a lot easier. So would it make sense to upgrade a max license to a revit suite, so that one can have revit to edit files? I see that Vray for Revit can apply materials and I understand that when you import that into max, all materials are sorted out and good to go. Or will you still have headaches in any case in max, and the money to upgrade and renew the licenses to revit suites will be a waste?
2) I always saw the software as an asset to the company, something you can sell when things go bad. But with this leasing thing from Autodesk, is that an outmoded way of looking at software. Software is now stationary that gets used up and has no value in itself? So will our max licenses (or then the suites if we upgrade) end up as worthless things, like a pen when the ink is dry?
So, I suppose what I am asking, is it worthwhile having revit in a company doing only 3d rendering and animation work?
regards,
Wim
1) we often get revit files from clients that end up a pain in max. Mostly because we end up receiving the complete 400+mb revit file of the complete building, when we are only doing a perspective of the foyer. So all the toilets and detailed doorhandles etc. gets in and is a pain to get rid of in max. Then the materials - its fairly normal to end up in max with 150+ materials that you need to edit down to the 10 or so that you end up using. And then the client sends an updated Revit file....... plus some other changes they could not get done in revit. So my question is this : We don't have Revit, but is it not a good thing to have? Is it not easier and quicker to edit the revit file in revit (sort out materials, cut unneeded stuff out, do whatever changes the client requires) and then just import and render in max? Autodesk makes my clients belief it is as easy as opening the Revit file in Max and press render, while it certainly is not with the revit files I receive. Or are we just doing something wrong on our side. I am sure there must be a way to organise a revit file that makes working in max a lot easier. So would it make sense to upgrade a max license to a revit suite, so that one can have revit to edit files? I see that Vray for Revit can apply materials and I understand that when you import that into max, all materials are sorted out and good to go. Or will you still have headaches in any case in max, and the money to upgrade and renew the licenses to revit suites will be a waste?
2) I always saw the software as an asset to the company, something you can sell when things go bad. But with this leasing thing from Autodesk, is that an outmoded way of looking at software. Software is now stationary that gets used up and has no value in itself? So will our max licenses (or then the suites if we upgrade) end up as worthless things, like a pen when the ink is dry?
So, I suppose what I am asking, is it worthwhile having revit in a company doing only 3d rendering and animation work?
regards,
Wim
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