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RE: recreating bad meshes imported from CAD

When Denis says it’s dead, well…it’s dead Jim. I will probably bang my head against the wall a few thousand more times though. You know, jussst to be …

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RE: recreating bad meshes imported from CAD

Confirmed, FBX does not provide better meshes. I exported from Autodesk Manage as FBX. This has been an issue for so long I can’t believe it’s stil a…

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RE: recreating bad meshes imported from CAD

ah, too right. To be honest I have tried most of the possible workflows to this point all with very similar results. Now if I could just find the 2300…

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RE: recreating bad meshes imported from CAD

We have to go the long way around. Piping Design Systems > DGN > DWG > Max. I like to use dwg files because the layer information is retained…

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RE: recreating bad meshes imported from CAD

Thank you gazybara, I’ll try it!

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RE: recreating bad meshes imported from CAD

Denis, here is a small part of a file There are far larger files crammed with lots of “stuff” but this small example illustrates the issue I am havi…

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RE: recreating bad meshes imported from CAD

Worked great on my first test. Sadly, it falls over on this scene My routine will redraw it, but it still comes out wrong. I will keep plugging away…

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RE: recreating bad meshes imported from CAD

Thank you for your responses claude666 and gazybara! gazybara, your method is so much faster than what I had hacked together by the wee morning hours…

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RE: what is making this program stall?

thank you Denis. I thought the was to create a new line if there were multiple. Looks like it works like a “commit”. I wonder if would work the same…

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RE: maxscript holding previous script in memory?

that was it, thank you Denis! I am using Paul Neale’s XML reader code @ . I have to set the dotNetObject to undefined. Then it works. dotNet.loadA…

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RE: dotnet database return values problem

Pjanssen: I think it just looked wrong, instead of actually being wrong Because any time a long value is converted to a string, the L is appended. …

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