Power Solids brings the power of Solids Modeling into your MAX environment.
What Is Power Solids?
Power Solids is specifically designed to be animation friendly. It includes high level solids modeling tools that work on a solid primitive level. Power Solids contains all of the functionality available in Power Translators plus the following:
- Booleans with optional rounding
- Extrusion, Revolution, Sweeping, Skinning Solid Primitives
- Rounding of selected primitive features
- Offset/Inset of Shape curves used in primitive creation
- Conversion of existing MAX shapes and Editable Meshes into a Brep Object
- Conversion of Power Solids Brep objects into Editable Polygon or Editable Mesh.
- IMPORT, Adaptive Mesh, Material Assignment, Filleting Selected Edges & Faces, Offset/Shelling (see Power Translators Above).
Power Solids and Power Translators are the first products in product series of 3ds max plug-ins entitled the "Precision Modeling Plug-ins". These first products will introduce support for a new type of shape representation called a Boundary Representation (Brep). This is the representation used in most modern day CAD systems. Robert McNeel's Rhino, Dassault's Solid Works and Catia, PTC's Pro Engineer, EDS's Solid Edge, Bentley's Microstation, Nemetschek's Vectorworks and Autodesk's Inventor are among the more popular CAD systems that use Boundary Representations as their primary form of shape representation. The Boundary Representation uses double precision NURBS-based geometry and Non-Manifold Topology. |
