Re: Need help finding autocad files
Well, I can't release any of the autocad drawings our company has produced, or any that we have access to.
My opinion is that as long as you can create quality 3D renderings that look like whatever source you're provided with, be it napkin sketches, photo-copies, paper plots, pdf files, etc., you should be good to go.
My experience has been that my coworkers (architects) don't know much about my workflow, nor do they particularly care how I do what I do. Yes, I do work from Autocad files, but I have also done renderings simply from a designer's sketches that were drawn on a long plane flight and faxed to me the second he landed at his destination airport. I've also done some simply based on ideas that were verbally conveyed to me.
Now, if you are actually trying to build up experience and develop your own abilities with modeling from Autocad, that's a different story. You might see if you can get your hands on some good pdf files that are still vector graphics, and open them up in Illustrator, and then bring them into Max.
If a potential employer is so hung up on the ability to work from Autocad files, then ask them if you can get a set of plans and elevations for a small project they've done and allow you to model the building in 3D, but only model it - don't do a full 3D color rendering for free, and don't give them the model unless they hire you!!!
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