Autodesk 3ds Max Design

Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2011 software offers compelling new techniques for bringing designs to life by aggregating data, iterating ideas, and presenting the results. Streamlined, intelligent data exchange workflows and innovative new modeling and visualization tools help significantly increase designers’ creativity and productivity, enabling them to better explore, validate, and communicate the stories behind their designs.

 

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Key new features

The following features are the top new features included in 3ds Max Design 2011. Please see www.autodesk.com/3dsmaxdesign-features for a more detailed list of new features.

• Quicksilver Hardware Renderer

Create higher-fidelity preview animations and design dailies in less time with Quicksilver, an innovative new hardware renderer that helps produce higher-quality images at incredible speeds.

• FBX File Link with Autodesk Revit Architecture

Receive and manage upstream design changes from Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software with the new Autodesk® FBX® File Link.

• Autodesk Inventor Import Improvements

Take advantage of new Smart Data workflows for your Digital Prototyping workflows when using Autodesk® Inventor® software with direct import of solids via IPT and IAM files.

• Viewport Display of 3ds Max Materials

Develop and refine scenes in a higher-fidelity interactive display environment—without the constant need to re-render—with the new ability to view most 3ds Max Design texture maps and materials in the viewport.

• Modeling and Texturing Enhancements

Accelerate modeling and texturing tasks with new tools that help extend the Graphite modeling and Viewport Canvas toolsets: an expanded toolset for 3D painting and editing textures within the viewport; the ability to paint with object brushes to help create geometry within a scene; a new brush interface for helping edit UVW coordinates; and an interactive tool for extending edge loops.

• Native Solids Import/Export

Non-destructively import and export surfaces and solids between 3ds Max Design and certain other applications supporting SAT files: Autodesk® Revit® Architecture software, Rhino, SolidWorks®, and form·Z.

• Google SketchUp Importer

Import Google® SketchUp™ (SKP) version 6 and 7 files into 3ds Max Design more efficiently.

• Autodesk Material Library

Exchange material data between certain Autodesk 2011 applications – AutoCAD®, Inventor®, Revit Architecture, Autodesk® Revit® MEP, and Autodesk® Revit® Structure software – with the new Autodesk Material Library.

• Local Edits to Containers

Collaborate more efficiently with significantly enhanced workflows for Containers that enable designers to layer local edits non-destructively on top of referenced content.

• Slate Material Editor

More easily visualize and edit material component relationships with Slate, a new node-based material editor that helps significantly improve workflow and productivity for designers creating and editing complex material networks.

Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 Design brochure (pdf)