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inverse kinematics (IK) (page 2–417) to restore
the constraints.
• Dragging and dropping an Inventor file into
3dsMaxusesthesettingslastsetonthe
Inventor File Import dialog with the except for
Mesh Resolution, which always resets to 0.
• 3ds Max uses the last version of Inventor that
was opened to set the Import version. For
instance, let’s say you have both Inventor 8 and
Inventor 10 on your system. If the last version
of Inventor you ran was Inventor 8, y ou cannot
import Inventor 10 files. Inventor 8 must be
closed and Inventor 10 opened, at least once, in
order for you to successfully import Inventor
10 files.
Ma ter ia l Ha ndli ng
Materials and material assignments made to the
original Inventor model are retained and imported
along with the geometry. Materials are imported
as
Architectural mater ia ls (page 2–1376) or if a
single object has several materials assigned to it,
they are imported as a
Multi/Sub-Object material
(page 2–1403)
.
Pr ocedur es
To import an IAM or IPT file:
1.
Choose File menu > Import.
2. Choose Autodesk Inventor (*.IPT, *.IAM) in
the Files of Type list.
3. Specify a file name to import.
4. Set options in the Autodesk Inventor File
Import dialog.
Interfa ce
Merge/ReplaceOptionsgroup
Mer ge W ith Curr ent S cene—Incoming geometry
is merged with any ex isting geometry that is
already present in the scene. This setting is useful
if you have several separate files that contains
components that you want to combine into a sing le
model.
Completely R eplace Current Scene—The file you’re
importing will completely replace any existing
geometry that is in the current scene. If your
cur rent scene has not been saved, you are given
the opportunity to save your changes to the
current scene before the import process continues.
Default=on.