I need to take my IV assembly and bring it into 3ds max.  When I do this I loose all constraints and assembly hierarchy.  Is there a way of retaining this info in 3ds max.  Even if the constraints aren’t there but I’m able to select an assembly that’d be great.  Right now I’ve got each of the individual parts but would have to entirely re-group everything.  On a model w/ 4000+ parts that gets rather old real fast.

AFAIK, there is no way to keep either the hierarchy or the links (constraints).

Randy

Thanks,
Randy

IBM Intellistation Z-Pro 9228
Dual Core Xeon
2GB Ram

Are there any plans to add this?  It seems they’d have had this a while ago.  Is there a different format to import that would have this?  Step files retain this for every other program but I can’t find a way to bring one into 3ds max.

As you say, if they had plans for it...it would be in there by now.

Max cannot import STEP files.  In the past when doing design work in Inventor, I’d import the .iam directly into Max.  When working with Pro/E or CATIA, I have to STEP out, go thru Rhino, and then into Max as a .3ds file.

Thanks,
Randy

IBM Intellistation Z-Pro 9228
Dual Core Xeon
2GB Ram