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Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010 software for 3D visualization offers new and enhanced features to communicate and validate design intent with impact. With 3ds Max Design, architects, designers, engineers, and design visualization specialists will find the toolsets they need to take their design ideas from concept to final, fully animated photorealistic rendering.
Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010 software is a complete version of the award-winning Autodesk® 3ds Max® software—specifically tailored for architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists. Autodesk 3ds Max Design offers these professionals lighting simulation and analysis technology, as well as digital continuity with the AutoCAD®, Revit®, and Autodesk Inventor® product families.
Now, Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010 introduces innovative new 3D design visualization tools for conceptual modeling and form finding, validating designs, and adding impact to final presentations.
Create 3D models quickly and efficiently with the new Graphite modeling toolset. Graphite builds on the renowned 3ds Max polygon modeling functionality by delivering 100 new tools for advanced polygonal modeling, texture painting, and freeform design. Because the Graphite tools are always displayed in one centeral location, it’s easy to find the right tool for the job. Customize the tool display or hide the command panel and model in Expert Mode.
Exposure
Simulate the lighting in your designs with confidence—Exposure™ lighting analysis technology has been validated by the National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada’s leading organization for scientific research and development, and the same organization that has conducted validation studies on Radiance for lighting simulation. A feature unique to 3ds Max Design 2010, Exposure enables you to achieve more sustainable designs by analyzing how sun, sky, and artificial lighting interact with your design and exploring direct lighting effects right in the viewport. Load complex designs and watch lighting levels adjust in the scene as colors.
Containers
The new Containers toolset in 3ds Max Design facilitates collaboration and flexible workflows by enabling users to collect multiple objects of a complex scene into a single container. Place related objects―such as sections of a city―in a container and treat them as a single element. To improve scene performance, temporarily unload containers from the viewport display while maintaining their relationships to the scene and reload later when needed―saving memory, increasing viewport performance, and decreasing load and save times. Translate, delete, copy, or save container nodes; use containers to override object properties for scene organization without affecting layer organization (similar to a nested layer workflow); and reference multiple containers created by others into a single scene so users can work together in context. Users can access and edit each other’s container, allowing flexible workflows while also imposing constraints on what can be edited.
Review 3
Take the guesswork out of your final renders with Review 3, the third generation of Review technology and a major advancement in viewport display. In addition to a redesigned Viewport menu that significantly streamlines your workflow, Review 3 offers support for ambient occlusion, High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI)-based lighting, soft shadows, hardware anti-aliasing, interactive exposure control, and the revolutionary mental mill® shader technology.
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Material Exposure
Quickly navigate all rendering-related assets in your scene, perform operations on multiple objects, and inspect―and even replace―individual materials. The Material Explorer simplifies the way you interact with objects and materials, making design iterations much easier, even in highly complex scenes.
xView Mesh Analyzer
Validate your 3D models prior to export or rendering with the xView mesh analyzer technology. This new functionality gives you an interactive view of potential design issues so you can make informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes. The analyzer significantly improves the speed of testing models and maps. Test or query for flipped or overlapping faces and unwelded vertices. You can also add your own specific tests and queries.
PFlow Advanced
Bring your designs to life with realistic water,fire, smoke, and other particle effects using the new PFlowAdvanced toolset. PFlowAdvanced delivers 12 new operators, including precision painting, to hand-specify where particles will emit; and Shape Plus, for a new selection of 2D and 3D shapes. PFlowAdvanced also offers a wide range of utilities and grouping operators.
OBJ Import
Easily transfer 3D model data between 3ds Max Design and Autodesk® Mudbox™ software―as well as other third-party 3D digital sculpting applications―with improved OBJ plug-in performance and expanded support for the OBJ file format. Now you can see if your OBJ files contain texture coordinates and smoothing groups; you also get options for triangulating polygons on import, choosing how normals are imported, and saving presets for normal and polygon import for future use.
Pro Sound
Add a new level of professionalism to your presentations by incorporating musical scores, ambient sound, and narration with the new ProSound multitrack audio system. Add up to 100 audio tracks and animate the volume of each track. The technology supports both PCM and compressed audio in AVI and WAV format with up to six output channels.
Performance Improvements
Work more efficiently with expanded multiprocessor support. Mesh display processing algorithms and analytical calculations performed by the new xView mesh analyzer have been multithreaded for increased productivity. Combined with the many GPU optimizations in previous 3ds Max Design software versions, users will benefit from a more responsive viewport experience.
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System Requirements
Software Requirements
Autodesk® 3ds Max Design® 2010 software requires one of the following 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems:
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (Service Pack 2 or higher)
Microsoft® Windows® Vista (Business, Premium and Ultimate)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64
Microsoft® Windows® Vista 64 bit (Business, Premium and Ultimate)
3ds Max Design 2010 software requires the following internet browser:
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6 or higher
3ds Max Design 2010 software requires the following supplemental software:
DirectX® 9.0c* (required), OpenGL® (optional)
*Some features of 3ds Max Design 2010 are only enabled when used with graphics hardware that supports Shader Model 3.0 (Pixel Shader and Vertex Shader 3.0). Check with your manufacturer to determine if your hardware supports Shader Model 3.0.
Hardware Requirements
At a minimum, 3ds Max Design 2010 32-bit software requires a system with the following:
Intel Pentium® 4 or higher, AMD Athlon® 64 or higher, or AMD Opteron® processor
1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
1 GB swap space (2 GB recommended)
Direct3D 10, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card, 128 MB
Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
2 GB hard disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Note: Apple® computers based on Intel processors and running Microsoft operating systems are supported using Apple’s Boot Camp. Virtual machine environments are currently not supported.
At a minimum, 3ds Max Design 2010 64-bit software requires a system with the following:
Intel® EM64T, AMD Athlon® 64 or higher, AMD Opteron® processor
1 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
1 GB swap space (2 GB recommended)
Direct3D 10, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card, 128 MB
Three-button mouse with mouse driver software
2 GB hard disk space
DVD-ROM drive
Two license types available for Max Design 2010 - Call for quote 1-800-548-1578
1. SLM (Stand Alone)
2. NLM (Network)
Add Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-ins to your purchase of 3ds Max Design 2010:
DreamScape is sophisticated set of 3DS MAX plug-ins for creating and rendering realistic landscapes, seascapes, skies, clouds, outdoor lighting and more.
AfterBurn 4.0 is the de facto standard when it comes to creating volumetric particle effects for 3ds Max and will unleash your imagination in ways you never imagined.
rtre™ real time rendering enables you to instantly explore or present any 3D model, however complex - from quick interactive studies to full multimedia presentations of major structures.
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