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hi all. back in the days you could do it yourself but since licensing is changed, I need some help. a client sent me a 3ds Max file which is very big and I can't export it to maya (which is the app I use). I used to just export it as MXS which is a solid conversion but can't do it anymore as I don't have a license for maxwell for max... so I hope someone can d-l this file from: https://www.jumbomail.me/j/_soo3php1U2r ... 72696F5336 and see if they can export it to MXS version 4 and maybe I can open it in maya. thanks for all

well come to think of it version 5 is ok too, I can download the demo and try to import the mxs to maya right ?

What if I try to take it directly from Max to Maya for you? Would that work for you?

Hmmm, it certainly is a big "mutha", and it is missing all the textures, but I guess you know that. 8678 sub-components or "entities."

Hmmm, it won't go directly to Maya, but I am passing it through *.fbx and then into Maya. Another thing I can see is that a lot of the sub-components have hebrew characters.

Still exporting .....

This guy is more or less stalling out my machine, and I have a decent sized computer. Still is "exporting" to *.fbx.

Still working, but just very slow - alot of tiny objects to export, it looks like.

Any chance you could ask your client to package this in smaller rational components? Because I'm not sure you're going to get this into Maxwell easily.

OK, I got a clean export to *.fbx. (Which you could load into Maxwell.)

Now am in the process of importing it into Maya. Also slowly....

Will Maya 2020 work for you, or do you need it as a *.ma, instead of an *.mb type file?

Still just coming into Maya very slowly. Mani, I am glad this is not me going to have to work with this file.

I'm not sure I am able to load this into Maya. My Maya seems to be either stalled out, or has crashed. Not sure.

I will try again. And I can post the *.fbx file for you to try yourself.

thanks man, I'm willing to try the FBX and also *.ma as I'm using 2016.

On my second try to bring it into Maya, it is working better. I got rid of almost every other CPU process so that Maya could have all my computer resources. I think this one will succeed, and I'll post both the Maya and the *.fbx. But be prepared to walk away from your computer for a long beer or something while it loads.

Right now, it is at 2% of the last "cleanup" stage. So, it will be another 45 minutes or so before I have it ready for you to download. I think the *.ma is the wisest choice here.

Here are your download links.

http://www.expandingwave.com/clientdown ... cheeMA.zip
http://www.expandingwave.com/clientdown ... heeFBX.zip

Sorry this took so long. These are seriously big files. That Maya file is going to take a really, really long time to load, but it will load. I double-tested it. Be patient!

downloading - and having my fingers crossed ...

couldn't get it to work
I got the original revit file today, I'm gonna post it in the revit forum too so maybe someone with maxwell for revit can convert it to mxs..... maybe then I'll be able to open it....

left a link in the revit forum but as it looks quite abandoned U'll leave it here too, hopefully
https://www.jumbomail.me/he/Downloads.a ... 3838673D3D

When you say, "couldn't get it to work", what exactly do you mean?

And neither the *.fbx nor the *.ma version?

well... the model is very heavy. and some of the elements didn't convert right (strange windows not located correct), tons of materials instead of a few ones.... unusable