File Linking from CAD

asarria · November 19th, 2007

As a FILE LINK MANAGER heavy user, the one item that needs to be consistant while modeling in CAD is keeping all items on one layer if you know what material you will be applying. It would be great to FILE LINK solids from AutoCAD knowing you can individually map material on individual solids even though they are on the same layer.

This would be awesome!

ahmon · November 19th, 2007

You can add an edit ploy modifier to it and then have different materials on one layer. I don't know if that is eaiser than just going back in cad and changing the layer but that is one way to do it.

castroman · February 7th, 2008

the edit poly modifier is one of the things you can't do without in 3d studio

November 19th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
asarria Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hicksville, NY Posts: 13 Name: Alex Sarria	File Linking from CAD As a FILE LINK MANAGER heavy user, the one item that needs to be consistant while modeling in CAD is keeping all items on one layer if you know what material you will be applying. It would be great to FILE LINK solids from AutoCAD knowing you can individually map material on individual solids even though they are on the same layer. This would be awesome!

November 19th, 2007	#2 (permalink)
ahmon Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: new orleans la Posts: 24 Name: ahmon williams	Re: File Linking from CAD You can add an edit ploy modifier to it and then have different materials on one layer. I don't know if that is eaiser than just going back in cad and changing the layer but that is one way to do it.

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castroman Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Norway Posts: 26 Name: Jan-Otto Øynes	Re: File Linking from CAD the edit poly modifier is one of the things you can't do without in 3d studio __________________ http://www.oynesonline.com

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