Hi Don,
The new DWG apparently carries a lot of important info for rendering / visualisation.
Are all of this accessible? Can Mstn mapped textures or materials be translated? Including those that are assigned to solid faces?
Regards,
Dominic
Yes, directly assigned material will be saved to DWG as is. BYLEVEL with single level assignment will also be saved as bylayer. Multiple levels on a BYLEVEL will be turned to direct assignment as there is no such a concept in DWG.
Phew.. Thanks
Don,
Do you have any Idea when this latest version will be available to "select" users. As a small operation, I can just about justify the investment in microstation and not Autocad or 3Dsmax. I really need the ability to export files with materials (in a kind of wyswig way), otherwise I'm frozen out of the market.
Regards, John
There is a beta for v08.11.09 available from SELECTservices Online (under the "Beta and Work in Progress" download category) -- see the MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 3) Technology Preview forum post for the announcement.
Thanks for your reply phil. I'll be checking all that out ASAP.
ps. I know I meant wysiwyg!