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Importing IGES Files 567

• List of the entity types encountered and those

created.

See also

Over view of IGES in 3ds Max (page 3–565)

3ds Max to IGES Export Table (page 3–570)

Export ing IGES Files (page 3–569)

IGES to 3ds Max Impor t Table (page 3–568)

Importing IGES Files (page 3–567)

Impor ting IGES Files

File menu > Import > IGES (*.IGE, *.IGS, *.IGES)

IGES files are used to import and export

NURBS objects to and from 3ds Max (and other

programs that support this file format). For more

information, see

Over view of IGES in 3ds Max

(page 3–565)

In some cases, when you import an IGES fi le, the

translation doesn’t produce exact replicas. To

understand what happens to each entity when it’s

translated, review the

IGES import table (page

3–568)

3ds Max imports an object containing multiple

surface s as a single NURBS object. To work with a

single surface of the object, detach it in sub-object

NURBS and work with only that object. This

releases the rest of the object f rom memory. For

more inform ation, see

NURBS (page 3–565)

When you import IGES files, 3ds Max creates a

log file containing detailed information about the

processing of the model. The name of the file has

the form of

filename.xli

.Formoreinformation,

see

IGES Log files (page 3–566)

Note: 3ds Max creates and uses a few temporary

filesduringtranslation. Temporaryfilescan

be large. If there has b een a computer or IGES

translation failure and temporar y fi les remain on

your system, they might need to b e removed to free

up disk space. For storage of these temporary files

in Windows, 3ds Max uses the directory specified

by the TEMP environment variable, or the current

directory if TEMP is not set.