Importing AutoCad files to Carrara 2005-06-24 - By Mike Perkins
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We are using autocad on PCs, downstairs in production But we have Macs
upstairs in design.
sent your info to a couple of our clients & am crossing my fingers.
Thank You.
On Jun 23, 2005, at 10:34 PM, Elena Dent wrote:
> How the devil are you using AutoCad on a Mac??? Are you using files
> someone
> exported for you? If so, tell the cad operators to do this for the best
> files you can use:
>
> In Autocad, to export:
> Go to Tools>Options>Settings>Display and change the Rendered Option
> Smoothness (upper right quadrant of the displayed screen) from its
> default
> 0.5 to 10. Sadly, this must be done for every file, every time; I
> haven't
> found a way to get AutoCad to keep that setting as its default.
>
> Make sure your model, whatever it is, is what you want and type 3DSOUT
>
> You will be asked to Select the object(s), do so; if it's multiple
> pieces
> make sure they're all Selected. One of the options is to save each
> object
> as seperate objects by Layer and a couple of others; I usually save by
> Layer. Experiment with your smoothing options, I normally don't change
> those. Give it a filename, I can't remember if it will over-write an
> existing file name or not, I know wmf exports will not.
>
> I use AutoCad in my day job and got very good at modeling in it; I
> prefer to
> have all my parts and pieces in seperate Layers for better control. If
> everything is one layer you run the risk of all the bits becoming one
> useless blob; better to be able to erase things as necessary or join
> them if
> you need to. If you're doing product design or something like that you
> don't
> need the inside pieces but you do want things like trim and various
> exterior
> pieces like the body of a sign to be seperate parts.
>
> In Carrara to import:
> Just open the object, move Smoothing all the way over to the highest
> resolution, then save under a new Carrara name.
>
> Double click on the object, when you try to open it in the Vertex
> Modeler it
> will present a blank screen, hit Edit>Convert to Vertex Modeler. The
> screen
> will now come up. Crease and Smooth areas as needed.
>
> Save early and often; if you decide to do extensive reworking of your
> shape
> watch for sudden system slowdowns, save, exit, restart the program if
> it
> does. If it bogs down and fails an operation, asking to save DO NOT
> LET IT
> DO SO! the model is always corrupted.
>
> Played this game a lot with Carrara <g> That's where I learned a neat
> Shader
> trick too. You will notice that the Highlight color is the same as the
> layer's color on the Default shader for your object which gave me the
> idea
> of fooling with Highlight colors as well as values, it produces a very
> cool
> effect and a very rich look to colors.
>
> Elena
>
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: Carrara@(protected) [mailto:Carrara@(protected)]On Behalf
> Of Mike Perkins
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:53 PM
> To: Carrara@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [Carrara] Re: What a drag
>
>
> Hey guys, I just got a new day job at a signshop & they are interested
> in bringing cad autocad 2000 files into carrara.
> I tried a few .dwg files to no avail. Anyone successful with cad files?
> I own carrra 4 pro,
> We are all running macs, G4 single 1.25ghz, JAguar.
> TIA.
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> Michael Perkins
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