3ds Max Design 2013 Micro Concepts

3ds Max Design 2013

Whether you’re an architect, designer, civil engineer, or visualisation specialist, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software provides a powerful, integrated toolset that helps you to more rapidly iterate on design concepts and accurately analyse daylight effects. Create higher-impact visuals as you explore, validate, and communicate the story behind your design.

High Impact Visuals Made Easier

3ds Max Design continues to reach new milestones in the Rendering Revolution, helping you achieve the look you want more easily. Case in point: the newly integrated iray® rendering technology from mental images that enables you to get more predictable, photo-real results without worrying about rendering settings - similar to a ‘point-and-shoot’ camera. Meanwhile, new stylistic rendering capabilities enable you to create a variety of non-photorealistic (NPR) effects in a looser, more abstract style well suited to communicating core design intent while fine details are still undetermined. And, with a new library of 80 Substance procedural textures that feature dynamically editable and animatable parameters, a wide range of look variations is at your fingertips.

Iterate Faster, Work in Context

3ds Max Design forges ahead with the next steps in the Excalibur (XBR) initiative to revitalise the software
at its core. Engineered to help provide dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality, the new Nitrous viewport system leverages accelerated GPUs and multi-core workstations to help you iterate faster and manage larger data sets with limited impact on interactivity. The render-quality display environment helps you make better creative decisions in the context of your final output.

Smoother Interoperability

For many visualisations, useful data already exists in another application. Now you can more easily take advantage of that data, thanks to new interoperability with Autodesk® Alias® Design software for industrial design. You can add sculpted details on top of Alias Design reference data using the intuitive Graphite polygon modelling toolset, which now features a new French curve-like ‘Constrain to Spline’ mode to help guide the brush as changes are made to the mesh, as well as new Transform and Conform brushes. What’s more, you can now enjoy automated iterative workflows between AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software
and 3ds Max Design with the Civil View feature set. Using civil data in 3ds Max Design, you can automatically create roads complete with road markings, circulation lanes, and chevrons; place trees at random or regular offsets along the side of a road or railway; or populate a highway with moving vehicles.