We use Archicad at work. God do I hate it. As far as I understand, it is fairly proprietary. I've heard that it can import IFC. I think that the parametric softwares (Revit,etc) are different beasts (information) & haven't matured or don't play well w/ Nurbs, meshes, subdivisions (surfaces) Rhino is developing a parametric (visualarq) If you aren't from Eastern Europe & are just starting out use Rhino or Revit. You will be more employable
you can merge files from 3DS to archicad with no problems but they will import as a is with limited changes because it will inherit the materials that were originally assigned to them so if you need to change something, do it beforehand and them import it to archicad.
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importing from 3ds man to archicad
is it possible to import an object from 3ds max or autocad into archicad and render it properly ( change textures, walls e.t.c.) ?
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sorry, was just testing an image for another thread...just ignore
We use Archicad at work. God do I hate it. As far as I understand, it is fairly proprietary. I've heard that it can import IFC. I think that the parametric softwares (Revit,etc) are different beasts (information) & haven't matured or don't play well w/ Nurbs, meshes, subdivisions (surfaces) Rhino is developing a parametric (visualarq) If you aren't from Eastern Europe & are just starting out use Rhino or Revit. You will be more employable
you may try saving them as an openGL object but i'm not sold how it would interface.
you can merge files from 3DS to archicad with no problems but they will import as a is with limited changes because it will inherit the materials that were originally assigned to them so if you need to change something, do it beforehand and them import it to archicad.
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