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Improve Viewport Performance with the DWG to 3DS Max Block Cleaner 19 Jun 2013 | 10:04 pm
AKA Optimize Your 3DS Max/Design Scene!! AKA One Of The Most Important Things To Do After Importing DWG Files Into 3DS Max/Design Importing DWG CAD files efficiently is one of 3DS Max’s many bright sp...
SmartPLANT Review .NET API Usage Tutorial 5 Apr 2013 | 09:02 pm
SmartPlant Review .NET API Usage Tutorial By Parrish Husband When I worked as a piping designer, the SmartPlant Review driving and reporting fell into my lap more times than I can remember. Eventually...
Polyform Importer: The DWG batch importer for 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design 28 Mar 2013 | 07:47 pm
I recently released my dwg batch import utility for 3ds Max Design called “Polyform Importer”. The purpose for creating the utility was to solve the problem of only being able to import one file at a ...
AutoCAD Plant 3D to 3ds Max Design 2014 Workflow – 1080P HD Video Tutorial Series 27 Mar 2013 | 10:45 pm
I have released my video tutorial series for creating an animation in 3ds Max Design using AutoCAD Plant 3D Models. Although these tutorials were specifically written for using a specific data set, th...
AutoCAD Plant 3D – Think of the Money You’ll Save! 21 Mar 2013 | 07:47 pm
The first in what will be a series of images I am creating to visualize the current plant software market. In this image, I am trying to show that Plant 3D has a “cool” factor that their competition c...
Corona Alpha4 Renderer for 3DS Max 18 Mar 2013 | 07:32 pm
I want to give everyone a heads up that there is a new rendering engine on the scene that looks very promising. It’s called the Corona renderer. It’s fast, flexible, very easy to use and best of all i...
Invasion of the CAD Snatchers! 12 Mar 2013 | 08:40 pm
So I am sitting there working away in my little corner on Friday when all of a sudden, the live chat room became engulfed in the flame (pun intended?) of heated discussion that involved the Intergraph...
The Microeconomics of Plant Design 14 Jan 2013 | 12:23 am
I have to admit to one thing: I really didn’t like the economics classes I had in college. Maybe it was the fact that I was broke most of the time and the concept of massive economies the size of nati...
The dreaded Oracle block corruption error 14 Dec 2012 | 11:47 am
Recently I was hit with the question: (paraphrasing) If there is, I’ve never run into it. In my experience, this has always meant physical block corruption within the data file. The simplest option to...
MAXScript: Find Area of Circle 10 Dec 2012 | 06:22 pm
Here is a little script I whipped up in about 15 minutes last night out of pure laziness. My daughters homework was to find the area of a circle based on radius or diameter. There were quite a few pro...
