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Importing 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

Overview of IGES in 3ds Max on page 7020 .

In some cases, when you import an IGES file, the translation doesn't produce

exact replicas. To understand what happens to each entity when it's translated,

review the

IGES import table on page 7025 .

3ds Max imports an object containing multiple surfaces 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

from memory. For more information, see

NURBS on page 7021 .

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. For more information, see

IGES Log files on page 7022 .

NOTE 3ds Max creates and uses a few temporary files during translation.

Temporary files can be large. If there has been a computer or IGES translation

failure and temporary files remain on your system, they might need to be 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.