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Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010

Explore, validate, and communicate your ideas with Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010 software—a comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution that supports the way architects, designers, engineers, and design visualization specialists approach their projects—from initial concept models to final, cinema-quality presentations. Digital continuity with the AutoCAD®, Revit®, and Autodesk® Inventor® software product families makes 3ds Max Design a key solution for seamless digital visualization workflow.

Key Highlights of 3ds Max Design 2010
At least 350 new features have been added to Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010 software. New features and enhancements include:

• The addition of render-like effects in the viewport display—such as soft shadowing, exposure control and ambient occlusion—offers near photo-real quality for fast decision making.
• A new Graphite modeling and texturing system, which introduces at least 100 new creative tools, helps designers explore and rapidly iterate their ideas.
• A real-time lighting analysis solution for validating the effect of direct lighting, along with the newly certified Exposure technology, helps users create more sustainable designs.
• An extensive library of particle effects and flickerless rendering improvements help users communicate design intent, bringing their story to life using the latest in game and film technology.

What’s New?

Explore unique designs with expanded modeling, texturing, and iterative workflows

• The new Graphite modeling tools represent a modern approach to 3D modeling— at least 100 tools for freeform sculpting, texture painting, and advanced polygonal modeling, unified in an accessible user interface.
• Create powerful referencing workflows to organize complex scenes easily by treating multiple objects and scenes as a single Container object.
• Enhanced Review technology helps take the guesswork out of final renders, offering a render-like viewport display with soft shadows, HDRI and ambient-occlusion effects.
• The new Material Explorer revolutionizes the way artists and designers interact with objects and materials – greatly simplifying complex setups.

Validate designs throughout the design process

• Create more sustainable designs with the Exposure™ technology by analyzing how sun, sky and artificial lighting interact with the design. New real-time lighting analysis helps users explore direct lighting effects right in the viewport, allowing them to interactively measure lighting intensities as they explore different configurations.
• Generate broader, more detailed contextual studies for designs. Revit® Architecture software building information models (BIM) can be more quickly and accurately imported into 3ds Max Design and then rapidly manipulated in the viewport. View design with the level of detail needed to help make crucial design decisions.
• Validate 3D models before exporting or rendering. Providing an interactive view of where problems may lie, the new xView mesh analyzer technology helps users catch issues earlier in the design process and avoid costly mistakes later.

Communicate design intent with impact using advanced visualization

• Quickly aggregate scene elements with extensive support for 2D and 3D file formats.
• Use advanced entertainment technology to create cinema-quality presentations with narrative context that expresses design intent.
• Bring designs to life with realistic water, fire, smoke, and other particle effects with PFlowAdvanced, a comprehensive particle design system. PFlowAdvanced also includes the new PFlowElements library with at least 100 samples created by an industry-leading effects artist.
• Put the final touch on the presentation in 3ds Max Design by adding musical scores, ambient sound and narration, with the new ProSound multi-track audio system.

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3ds Max Design 2010 Exposure Lighting Analysis and Simulation Technology
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.

 

Now is the Time

Now is the time to take a look at Autodesk 3ds Max Design.  For more information, click on the links at the top right, fill in the form at right, or call your Hagerman & Company representative.