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Whether youre an architect, designer, civil engineer,

or visualization specialist, Autodesk 3ds Max Design

2011 sotware provides a powerul, integrated toolset

that helps you to more rapidly iterate on design concepts

and accurately analyze daylight eects, and to create

higher-impact visuals as you explore, validate, and

communicate the story behind your design.

Smart Data Workows

Save time, manage resources better, and deliver higher-

precision results with new workows in 3ds Max Design

2011 that help you handle data rom numerous sources

more intelligently. Visualizations or Autodesk

Revit

Architecture sotware designs can be rened, even

while changes continue to occur, by using the new

Autodesk FBX le link. Solids or suraces can now

be imported rom Autodesk Inventor sotware

or rom SAT les while retaining the mathematical

description o the solid or surace. Now, cutaways

and reveals can be shown with ewer artiacts, and

dynamic tessellation parameters can optimize memory

usage or perormance. The new Autodesk Materials

Library helps simpliy data exchange with the

AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, and Autodesk

Revit amilies o sotware, while a new SKP importer

provides higher-delity les rom Google SketchUp

sketching sotware.

Rene Your Design

Productivity enhancements in 3ds Max Design

mean more time to iterate on your design, enab

you to be more creative and produce higher-qu

results. Expanded Graphite and Viewport Canv

toolsets deliver intuitive new brush-based inte

or 2D/3D painting, texture editing, and object place

while a new in-context direct manipulation UI

make polygon modeling aster. At the same tim

the enhanced ability to view most 3ds M ax text

maps and materials in the viewport means you

make interactive decisions in a higher-delity co

helping reduce errors and saving time. And, or prwhere collaboration is critical, a signicantly enh

workow with Containers enables multiple tea

members to work in parallel, making tight dead

less o a challenge.

Higher-Quality Presentations in Less Time

Throughout the design process, you need to pr

your evolving design to internal and external

stakeholdersand the way you do that can mak

dierence between winning business and walking

empty handed. 3ds Max Design 2011 brings new

that enable you to create compelling presentat

even when time is at a premium. An intuitive ne

The Viewport Canvas,Slate node-based materialeditor, and QuicksilverHardware Renderer helpme work aster and betteron everyday work. Theability to save in the 3ds

Max 2010 le ormat isone o the most importantadditions, enabling me towork in 2011 and thendeliver the nal projectusing the old le ormatwithout compatibilityproblems. 3ds Max Design2011 is a must have.

Alessandro Cangelosi,Freelancer/VFX Artist

Every Design Has a Story

Compatible with the Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010 releaseAutodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 sotware delivers compellinnew techniques or helping to aggregate data, iterate idea

and present the results.

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ode-based material editor, Slate, helps make it easier

nd aster to create and edit complex material networks,

while the innovative Quicksilver hardware renderer

upports advanced lighting eects, and can render

t incredible speeds, even at larger-than-screen

esolutions. And, with the addition o Save to Previous

elease, you can save scene les in a ormat compatible

with the previous 2010 version*. This enables you to

ake advantage o the new eatures in 2011 beore

our entire studio, pipeline, or client base is ready to

pgrade. Plus 3ds Max Design 2011 oers plug-in

ompatibility with the previous version.

Quicksilver Hardware Renderer

reate higher-delity preview animations and design

ailies in less time with Quicksilver, an innovative new

ardware renderer that uses both the CPU and the GPU

o help produce higher-quality images at incredible speeds.

BX File Link with Autodesk Revit Architecture

eceive and manage upstream design changes rom

utodesk Revit Architecture sotware with the new

BX File Link. This intelligent handling o data helps

educe rework o visualizations in 3ds Max Design

011 when original designs are revised and rened.

Autodesk Inventor Import Improvementsake advantage o new Smart Data workows when

mporting data rom Inventor sotware into 3ds Max

esign 2011. Inventor is no longer required to be installed

n the same machine, while support is improved or

olid objects, materials, suraces, and composites.

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Viewport Display o Autodesk 3ds Max Materials

Develop and rene scenes in a higher-delity interactive

display environment that enables you to help make

better decisions in context with the enhanced ability

to view most 3ds Max texture maps and materials in

the viewport.

Modeling and Texturing Enhancements

Accelerate modeling and texturing tasks with new tools

that extend the Graphite and Viewport Canvas toolsets

to provide intuitive brush-based interaces or assisting

with 2D/3D painting and editing textures, creating

geometry within a scene, and editing UVW coordinates.

Native Solids Import/Export

Nondestructively import and export suraces and solids

between 3ds Max Design and certain other applications

supporting SAT les: Inventor, Revit Architecture,

Rhino, SolidWorks, and formZ sotware.

Google SketchUp Importer

Import Google SketchUp sketching sotware (SKP)

version 6 and 7 les into 3ds Max Design 2011 more

efciently. The enhanced SketchUp Importer supports

SketchUp entities: layers, groups, components, materials,

cameras, and the daylight system.

Autodesk Material Library

Exchange material data between 3ds Max Design

2011 and certain supporting Autodesk applications

(AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit Architecture, Autodesk

Revit MEP, and Autodesk Revit Structure) with

the new Autodesk Material Library.

Local Edits to Containers

Collaborate more efciently with signicantly enhanced

workows or Containers that enable you to meet tight

deadlines by working in parallel: multiple users

layer local edits nondestructively on top o reere

content, working simultaneously on dierent as

o the same container.

Slate Material Editor

More easily visualize and edit material compo

relationships with Slate, a new node-based edito

helps signicantly improve workow and produ

or creating and editing complex material netw

Save to Previous Release

Manage the transition to Autodesk 3ds Max Desig

with the option to save scene les in a ormat comp

with the 2010 version. This enables you to ta

advantage o the new eatures in 2011 beore y

entire studio, pipeline, or client base is ready to upg

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