Chapter 5
Working with External Design Data
Autodesk® 3ds Max® is a complete and powerful product, but it can't do everything you might need to do in your career on its own—you will need other resources. 3ds Max 2013 is extremely robust, and it can take advantage of data created in many of the other design and drafting programs from Autodesk. Other products that are useful when working with 3ds Max are AutoCAD®-based applications, including AutoCAD®, AutoCAD LT®, AutoCAD® Mechanical®, AutoCAD® Architecture®, AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, Autodesk® Inventor® and Autodesk Inventor LT™, and the Autodesk® Revit® family of products. With the FBX file format, you can also easily bring in content from Autodesk® Maya® and Autodesk® Mudbox®.
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