3DS Export

[Jun Austria]

Please bring back this feature.....

[cliff collins]

Try using FBX export and bring that into 3dsMax Design 2010.

Mental Ray ProMaterials from Revit come into Max, etc.

It's a good workflow.

cheers

[dhurtubise]

FBX, DWG would work with max. It it's for another application see if that application can also get SAT

[Jun Austria]

Sorry for being a bit vague.

My workflow is this...
Building model was done in Revit then exported to 3dsmax via FBX.
From 3dsmax, I exported the model again via 3ds to another favorite 3D apps of mine Vue 7.

In Vue 7, only 3ds format is more reliable for importing. And 3ds I believed still being widely supported by other, so I just cannot understand why was this omitted in Revit.
My concern is, I find 3dsmax too costly just to bridge Revit and Vue or other 3D apps.

[aaronrumple]

And 3ds I believed still being widely supported by other, so I just cannot understand why was this omitted in Revit.
My concern is, I find 3dsmax too costly just to bridge Revit and Vue or other 3D apps.

It is. And why Autodesk would rather not export to 3DS. Autodesk has really been working hard at proprietary formats, most evident by the copyright fights of the use of DWG and the whole "This is a fake DWG" warning you get in AutoCAD.

Autodesk is pushing FBX (which they of course own) as a "universal" exchange of 3D information. It is a richer format (such as motion) than 3DS and has some good points - but is a closed system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBX)

Interesting that others are moving to more open formats. Modo - the hot new kid on the block - and SketchUp both support COLLADA an open XML standard for 3D content exchange. It has some interesting features such as physics. It is also used by Google Earth (*.kmz) and Adobe. This could be a hot format down the road. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collada

BiM isn't well served by the current status quo. It really needs an open format to flourish - just as HTML made the internet so useful. The current trajectory is moving toward a tower of babble and lots of useless information.

[Captainkb]

Revit > 3D view .dwg > Use 3DSOUT in Autocad (old lisp routine)?

Or.

Autodesk FBX Converter can convert to 3ds

I'll agree, too many hoops to jump through.