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Multi lane assembly

2012-01-31T18:34:22Z

I have a quick question that I can’t seem to find the answer too… If I want to create a multi lane assembly, 2 lanes each direction, would my assembly have 4 subassemblies (one for each lane) so that when it’s imported into 3ds Max each lane receives it’s own texture or is there another method? When I normally create a multi lane assembly I would only have the total width of the lanes and not worry about individual lanes but since I am creating visualization material it really is important.

FYI…I have scoured the internet but all the tutorials I find have only 1 lane per direction so maybe someone could create a tutorial for this subject…I can’t be the only one with this question… can I!

Thanks in advance

Larry

Really bad flickering

2011-12-15T09:08:34Z

I’m finding in my animations I’m getting really bad flickering or crawling in my white lines.
I have attached 3 images showing my FG settings

Image 1 & 2 show the FG settings when creating my FG map.

Image 3 shows my reuse settings when rendering my animation. I have set my interpolate over n frames to 10. I thought this would give me a smooth render

where can I get the tutorial files (especially the .dwg files)?

2012-01-13T07:27:23Z

Hello,

I was watching the DVSP Tutorials, e.g. “Design Stage 1”. In the video, a file called “M16 Wigan Link Design Stage-1.dwg” is being used.
I was looking under “Download” section here, but there’s not such a file. Could you please tell me where I could download it or provide me with the tutorial dwg files?
The problem I have is, that no corridor feature lines are exported, just alignments and surfaces in my own project, so I’d want to compare the two dwg files in order to find out what is missing in my project.

Thanks a lot.
Kind Regards,
Kai

Draped Orthophoto best practices???

2012-01-11T06:59:30Z

given a choice between
1) large pixel dimensions
2) large physical dimensions
3) high resoluions
4) large file size

what is the best way to have an draped image look good at multiple scales

for example I currently have an orthophoto with
pixel dimensions = 9456x6816
physical dimensions = 1.5m x 1.8m
resolution = 96ppi
file size = 55MB

which of these settings should I change to get the best image for drapping?

also I noticed that there is no direct way to take an image in Civil3D and drape it in Civil View. I have attached a LISP file that generates the world file from the image. command = WORLDOUT

Exporting Civil View signs to NWC for navisworks

2012-01-10T08:16:28Z

Hi Guys,

We created very nice Civil View signs in 3dsmax for our project. We now want to export the whole 3dsmax scene to Navisworks using export to NWC. Unfortunately we can only see a gray rectangle as some sort of placeholder in navisworks, but it seems the image maps are not there. This is strange because nwc is known for export WITH materials and maps…..

Does anyone know whats happening or does anyone has a solutions for this problem?

Thanks.

Remco

fzp import

2011-12-21T08:55:04Z

Bruce,

error as attached in max design 2012 64 bit. we click once on fzp import nothing happens click second time and attched errors pop up.

UNKNOWN PROPERTY PRESERVEMEMORYSIZE IN UNDEFINED

and

UNKNOWN PROPERTY DESTROY IN UNDEFINED

can you help.

regards

Paul

Christmas Lights

2011-12-13T15:15:30Z

I was wondering if anyone had advice for a novice 3ds max user trying to place trees with illuminated Christmas lights outdoors for an exterior night render. Whether it is an already built template or an easy how to. I am mainly using civil view, but can do some basic stuff in max.

Thanks

Exporting to Civil View

2011-12-08T19:45:56Z

I have been trying to export a corridor into Civil View from C3D 2012, however it always gets to a certain spot, see attached image, and locks up C3D. My question is what do the 3 numbers given refer to? I am thinking there is a problem with the corridor. Thanks for any assistance.

Failed to create data structures

2011-12-08T15:09:03Z

I am fairly new to Civil 3d 2012 and Civil View. I have been through Autodesk tutorials for Civil View and that process makes sense. The tutorials start, however, with a vsp3d file. I’m having trouble creating that file in C3D. I have a Civil 3D model of a road corridor (named First Street). I didn’t actually create this project, but others in my office did build the model and have cut plan/profile and cross section sheets, so AFAIK, the model should be built correctly. When I export it to Civil View everything appears to export okay except I get this error: Failed to create data structures for the First Street object. If I open the vsp3d file in Max 2012, no data is imported. I can’t find any information on this error and I’m not sure what might be wrong with the C3D model or with the import process to Max. Any ideas? Thanks!

materiallist in undefined

2011-11-16T17:04:12Z

I have got the above error when trying to drape an ortho map (See attached file for screenshot)

I imported a file from Civil 3D. There were problems with the mesh. So I did an STL check which gave me over 3700 errors. To fix these errors I exported to STL and imported the STL file again.
The file now has no errors.

I then reapplied the Civil View multisub material to it.

But now when I try to drape an ortho file onto the mesh I get the above error.