Autodesk Architecture - MAC - Maxwell Render

Autodesk Architecture - MAC#293379

By grupo4 - Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:12 am

- Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:12 am #293379

Does anybody knows a Mac (Apple)software capable of Import and work with Autodesk Architecure files?

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MAXWELL is my Render Engine.

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#293380

By jvanmetre - Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:44 am

- Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:44 am #293380

Haven't tried importing... you may want to look at Vectorworks.

jvm

#293384

By Mattia Sullini - Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:22 am

- Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:22 am #293384

jvanmetre wrote:Haven't tried importing... you may want to look at Vectorworks.

jvm

In my experience it has one of the best dwg importers. It retains the whole hierarchy of theAutocad files and it is really fast imprting complex drawings.
At least i can make a direct comparison with archicad...well, no chance!

#293398

By leoA4D - Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:25 pm

- Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:25 pm #293398

VectorWorks is reliable for importing dwg/dxf; I have imported plans, furniture, fixtures, etc. for about 7 years (Mac). If you can, talk to the sender about the scale in advance or else you will need to clean that up. Xrefs are messy but usable assuming the sender includes them. Occasionally, dimensions or notes are missing.

Leonard

#293460

By numerobis - Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:04 am

- Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:04 am #293460

Mattia Sullini wrote:At least i can make a direct comparison with archicad...well, no chance!

for me archicad is VERY slow for working with simple line drawings - acad is 1000000x faster. handeling splines and polylines is so slow, drawing a contour map the hour glass apears after evry single click - in acad i can do 10 clicks whn i do 1 in archicad...

so i think vectorworks is the way to go for line 2d drawings - and it's much cheaper than archicad.

#293463

By yanada - Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:29 am

- Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:29 am #293463

VectorWorks

V2009 introduces Parasolid modeling kernel one of the best in the industry, if not the best. So by 2010-11 VectorWorks it sould be a Kick-Ass 3d app...

#293500

By ludi - Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:44 pm

- Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:44 pm #293500

yanada wrote:VectorWorks V2009 introduces Parasolid modeling kernel one of the best in the industry, if not the best. So by 2010-11 VectorWorks it sould be a Kick-Ass 3d app...

It's not only the the kernel that make a software good...

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#293506

By yanada - Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:32 pm

- Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:32 pm #293506

ludi wrote:
yanada wrote:VectorWorks V2009 introduces Parasolid modeling kernel one of the best in the industry, if not the best. So by 2010-11 VectorWorks it sould be a Kick-Ass 3d app...
It's not only the the kernel that make a software good...

Thanks for the lesson