General export Max quesiton

[seininja]

Hi guys, this is my first post and i wanted to ask about IGES files. I am currently trying to export a poly model in max to .igs format so the firm in taiwan can work on it through PRO-E, i was wondering if anyone would be able to help me with this? All my exported files of max seem to become .xlo. Thank you

John

[dbuchhofer]

No real experience here, but you may want to look at npowersoftware.com 's power translators thing..

[asango]

ive used npower's power solids plugin to get proE models into MAx, but not too sure about the other way around.

the problem is that your model in max is a Mesh...not a solid...so they could import mesh, but wouldnt really be able to edit the mesh in proE, just 2 different modeling approaches.

we are currently testing out the possiblity of using offset surfacing to "duplicate' the 3ds mesh into a fully editible proE surface, but we havent really had a large enough break in the workflow to fully test it out.

but if all u need to give them is a visual reference that they could work off of, i recommend exporting it as a STL.

[seininja]

thanks for the help guys. i still haven't found a way to directly export through max effectively but i will need to do it in a form of 3rd party software. I found Okino's Polytrans to be very useful, too bad the demo takes out every 5th polygon LoL.

[asango]

i feel you pain.

its kinda like trying to hit a round peg through a square hole.