I going to graduate on technical high school and i have picked final project 'Solutions for rendering CAD models' and i wonder what is best format to export in.I have only one. Using Solidworks premium 2014,Autodesk products 2015 and C4D R15. Export out of Showcase as FBX into Maya 3dsmax etc. Which format is best for importing CAD files in Cinema 4D? Is best format to import into 3ds Max? Or do I need to convert the files in some other software.

.max files are proprietary and can't be opened in anything but 3DSMax. Some older versions (3ds?) can be opened in other programs but Autodesk has tightened it up in the last few years and locked it down. This is why the studio I work for moved to Blender several years ago. We never have to worry about having our own work being held hostage by a company.

Proprietary anything is evil, open source is good and sunshine and nice and just plain much smarter. So blender can open any formats? With its rigs? . Phillies Cursive Font Tattoos. Dragon Ball Z Budokai Soundtrack Mp3 Download here. Cummins Incal December 2012 Melisa on this page. max is a proprietary format - it was explained to me as a metafile, instrcutions that Max executes to rebuild the mdoel..3ds is not proprietary, it contains actual mesh data that other applications can read. I don't have any great familiarity with Max but as far as I am aware both formats are still supported.