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An i-drop object in a Web page is an open gateway between the content

provider's server and the Autodesk software user's desktop. Web pages that

contain i-drop objects can be designed to look and behave exactly like standard

Web pages in a standard Web browser. You simply drag the i-drop object from

the provider's Web page and drop it onto a desktop or into an application.

The desktop or application is the i-drop target. The i-drop target requests the

data in one or more specific clipboard formats and receives the content. This

is called being "i-drop aware." i-drop can also deliver data in any of the system

default clipboard formats. What the application gets depends on what

clipboard format it requires. For example, if the user drags to the desktop, the

desktop takes a file. If the user drags to a text editor, the text editor takes

textual data. What the desktop or application takes is independent of i-drop.

For more information, see http://idrop.autodesk.com.

Geometry File Formats

The

Import on page 6892 and Export on page 6894 commands on the File menu

on page 7259 let you share 3D geometry with other 3D modeling programs.

The software can import and export a variety of file formats.

3ds Max can also open DRF Files on page 6964 , which are created in VIZ Render,

a rendering tool packaged with AutoCAD Architecture.