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Civil View (Dynamite VSP) and SketchBook Designer

Civil 3D and Civil View (Dynamite VSP) make 3ds Max much easier to learn if you are trying to create civil renderings.  Civil View is used to quickly convert Civil 3D geometry such as corridors and...

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Planned Service Pack Transparency for 3ds Max 2012

Autodesk released a list of the planned fixes for the 3ds Max 2012 to improve feedback from the customers.  This is very different from what we would typically see of the other products Autodesk...

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Rendering the Ground Plane in Revit

One of the problems you might run into when creating an exterior render in Revit is the ground plane. When rendering, you will probably want to turn it off or cover it up. What I like to do is create a...

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3DS Max – Civil View (Mental Ray) Render Speed

When rendering scenes in 3DS Max and Civil View (Dynamite VSP), you might find that the mental ray presets take a long time to render.  Therefore, any animations that you create will take a very long...

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Autodesk Labs Project Neon – Revit 2012 – Web Update 1

Project Neon allows you to use Autodesk’s servers to render your Revit models. However, Web Update 1 for Revit broke Project Neon.  There is now an update to the add-in so that it will work with...

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Civil View (Dynamite VSP) – 3DS Max- Gaps in Corridors

Recently, we had a customer call in asking about how to preserve the gaps in a corridor surface when exporting to Civil View.  When you export a corridor in Civil View to 3DS Max, it’s going to create...

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Civil View (3DS Max) and Vertical Faces

As you may know, Civil 3D does not like vertical faces in a TIN.  Many of the default corridor subassemblies actually have slight offsets built in to avoid creating vertical faces.  However, you’ll...

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Autodesk Cloud

Autodesk Cloud was recently released for all subscription customers.  What is Autodesk Cloud?  It’s an online service that gives you access to a variety of online server based applications.  The core...

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NVidia Maximus

NVidia Maximus allows you to link up a Quadro card for graphics, and a Tesla card for data processing. This allows programs to unload intensive data processing operations off of the CPU that are better...

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AutoCAD Analysis Zebra

This strange command was introduced in AutoCAD 2011.  Speaking with co-workers here, it’s mainly a source of frustration as users try to Zoom Extents and instead get the ZEBRA command, the alias for...

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Revit Render Colors Faded – Mental Ray – Gamma Correction

If you have tried rendering in Revit, you may find that the materials have colors that look faded or washed out when rendering.  This is because Revit does not apply any gamma correction.  While there...

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