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haneet22
02-27-2006, 02:32 PM
Ok ppl i have a serious problem here
I am doing a walkthrough of a housing society site
i modelled everything in cad and build the whole site.
Now when i import it in Max it just takes hell lot of time to do that.and after sometimes it just doesn't do anything or cancels the import process by just giving the message improper file format
My computer is not able to take so much load.
but i need to do it by any means
How can i make the file lighter
My computer specs are
p4 3.0 HT
2GB ram
160Gb sta
No graphics card

Please help me with this as i need to render it asap

THANKS A LOT
bsm3d
02-27-2006, 05:15 PM
So 'Improper file format' this is not too heavy file, well what's app you from and to go into max ?

'No graphics card' I guess you would say you don't have Heavy 3D carte like Geforce or Ati GL ? if you don't have real 3d card maybe try loading your project without textures into max or switch max view to wireframe !

According max have serious problems loading millions poly textured files ! so you can split your big file (if it's a real size problem) and load it with Xref or Asset in few part.

If again it's file size problem, do you check how many virtual mem you have? the hard disk where is located Virtual mem have enough space ?

The right is multiply your amount of REAL mem x 2.5 to get good Virtual mem size. eg : if you buy 1GB or ram you need 2.5 GB or virtual mem.
haneet22
02-28-2006, 02:18 AM
I am importing from autocad 2 max

Can't understand what u r saying
Myliobatidae
02-28-2006, 04:02 AM
Try file linking, I was having a problem importing a file once, then I tryed file linking and it worked fine, if that still doesn't work, try spliting your file up into managable sections, so its not taking in the whole thing at once...
bsm3d
02-28-2006, 10:02 AM
I am importing from autocad 2 max

Can't understand what u r saying

what's don't you understand ?
haneet22
03-01-2006, 01:48 PM
The right is multiply your amount of REAL mem x 2.5 to get good Virtual mem size. eg : if you buy 1GB or ram you need 2.5 GB or virtual mem.

can't understand this
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