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I am importing a drawing into Max from Autocad.

The problem is when imported all the lines in the drawing are skewed. I have lost all right angles. Curves become wavy.

I am getting totally frustrated here.

Copy from Jomaga's tutorials:

Set the mesh resolution with the FACETRES system variable. The default value of 0.5 is very low and results in a course polygon mesh approximating the shape of your model. I recommend you set the value to a higher level to create a more accurate part shape. Use the maximum setting of 10. If you have 3d surfaces, set the surface resolution with SURFTAB1 and SURFTAB2 (default is 6 / 6) to a medium value like 40 / 40

Here is the link to the complete tutorials for exporting from autocad to maxwell studio http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=11445

Hope that solve your problem,

José

I have read again your post and maybe I misunderstood your issue.Are you having problems with imported surfaces or with imported polylines?. The solution posted above is for imported surfaces.

I am importing polylines ito 3dsMax.

Thanks for your reply.

Go to file, file link manager, file, then under the preset selection make an autocad preset. then under the attach tab again, select the autocad preset.

Sorry, no idea what is happening there. Never had a problem like that before.

frosty_ramen wrote:Go to file, file link manager, file, then under the preset selection make an autocad preset. then under the attach tab again, select the autocad preset.

How will this clear up the messed up lines problem?

jespi wrote:Sorry, no idea what is happening there. Never had a problem like that before.

Neither have I, and I have been using these programs for years.

I thought maybe it was the way that it was imported

Thanks for your replies.

It miraculously worked itself out. Must have been a bug of somekind.