Acad linking to Max does help you out with the textures a bit
Buggered if I can remember how.
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 21:42, Reply)
Acad Architecture does anyway. It Maps the 255-colour palette to a library of 'real-world' textures.
You line about "maybe for animation, maybe for Inventor" made me twitch. It suggests you are using the 'carpet bombing' approach to information representation. They're two different problems for two different audiences.
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 22:15, Reply)
Let me explain
Inventor needs to either make it's elements or have clean 3Dobjects to import with clear pivot/movement lines.
For animation(we are talking industrial stuff, not Disney), I also need clean 3d objects with clear pivot/movement lines.
This the only place where these two different ops meet.
In real life, I always have two models of the same thing.
The accurate to default engineering version.
The simplified (internals removed) version for rendering/Inventor.
Once exported out of Cad, the two are separate entities.
Just to give you an idea, we did a lift in the North sea last week where the load on one of the two cranes was 99% and only 1.8m clearance...
Sweaty palm times:
Autocad is for engineering calculation.
Inventor is to check clearances, slings, wires.
Max is for pretty pictures in the brochure.
(, Sun 17 Jul 2016, 22:38, Reply)