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I really don’t understand why Autodesk refused to allow compatibility between Autodesk products. It irritates me to no end that all you can really import into Revit is Sketchup and Autocad files. Why not 3dMax and Maya models directly considering that Autodesk now own them. Far enough, when these packages were competitors little compatibility was to be expected. But come on!!!! If they want to convince us to render within Revit then they should allow our flashy MAX/MAYA models to be imported into Revit - now, that would be really powerfull. Or are Autodesk really after us to shell out more money to purchase more seats of max/maya????? Maybe polytrans will offer translation between these packages in the future. Sorry if this message sounds aggressive as its not intended to be.
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Well, I personally think this is a valid point of frustration for Revit users. However, if you delve further into how Autodesk is treating it's program library you'll find they are actually doing the best possible thing for program interactivity. What works better do you think? Take 12 programs that are already coded and proven to be working and recode them to be able to implement program formats from every other program in your repitoir, or implement one common file type amongst them all (DWG/DFX)? Being on a few Autodesk beta programs, I can promise you they are doing everything they can to make life easier for their users. Sometimes, they listen to the right suggestions, sometimes they don't. Every object modeling software that Autodesk owns has the ability to import into Revit. You just export out to DWG and import into revit. Now there's some editing that has to happen to get materials working the way you want in revit, but that's to be expected; they all use different render engines! You can't expect accurender to accept materials from mental ray to accept materials from viz to accept materials from yada yada yada... I know this won't ease the frustration, but hopefully it can atleast help the understanding. Also, note that Autodesk is, unfortunately, a corporate business... this does mean, by its nature, that the sole purpose is profit.
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