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Hi all!

Long time no seen
Started to use Maxwell when the first beta was out, for roughly 5 years ago a switch was made at the office and we started to use VRAY instead...

Now I've quit that office, and I'm a freelancer and starting to test maxwell again.
Bought Maxwell Render 3.0 and will be running it on Ubuntu.

Now I would like some suggestions, hear some experiences from other users, whats a good workflow?
I get my arch models from Microstation or Revit, at the moment I'm thinking about importing them as MXS or FBX, assigning materials, set up the rendering settings, lightning etc. When the models is updated I will try to reimport it keeping UV mapping, materials (hopefully).

Do you have any other Idea? I have a 3dsmax Licence as well, but that will force me into windows which I dont want to do..

Best Regards Patrik

Max and Revit work well together. You can keep your Revit model linked and when changes occur, the model updates, with options to keep materials.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard "We already have the model built in Revit" which basically implies "We expect a significant price cut because we've done 95% of the work for you"

There's maybe 0.00012% out there of all Revit users who actually know what they are doing and produce workable files from the software. If you find one of them who knows what they are actually doing, then I would personally like to meet them. The rest come from an Autocad background and were forced into Revit by means of top level studio officials (mostly are incompetent and hold a position because of the number of years maintaining that incompetency) and those incompetent officials who installed Revit in their studio were sold on Revit by Autodesk as "The End All Solution" because drawing and managing projects in 2d was old school and Revit was/is the future! And all the technicians in those studios thought that all of their problems were solved by this magical software called Revit only to find out that it basically carried over the same sloppy habits of Autocad and fed those habbits a third dimension which 99.999991% of technicians were not ready to deal with. A global fuck up of master proportions. For engineering it was great - they loved the introduction of BIM. But for Architecture it was and remains to be a cluster fuck because Revit was sold to architectural production houses as the end all solution that would eliminate the need to draw seperate drawings for plans, elevations, rcp, etc, because Revit "Did all of that for your".

.dwg's and .pdf's are the way to go.......

In this first test-project I work with an architect using Microstation, we've used the FBX export and I've imported the FBX file into Maxwell Studio where I do the material assignments and lightning setup. When he sends me a new model I just import it again replacing the objects he have modified but keeping the material assignments and UV Maps.

Works pretty good but with some flaws...