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Autodesk 3ds Max Design — Includes 1 year Autodesk Subscription
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DescriptionAutodesk 3ds Max Design 2012 software is a visualization studio in a box that provides architects, designers, civil engineers and visualization specialists with modeling, rendering and animation tools to help them tell the story of their design and create cinematic-quality visuals. For even greater value, purchase 3ds Max Design as part of the design suite family and expand your creative capabilities with a range of specialized productivity-enhancing toolsets at a significant cost saving. PlatformsWindows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP Product Features
Editorial ReviewAutodesk 3ds Max Design 2012Every Design Has a Story.Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2012 software delivers powerful new rendering toolsets, accelerated iterative workflows, and enhanced interoperability that together help significantly increase overall productivity. 
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Whether you're an architect, designer, civil engineer, or visualization specialist, Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2012 software provides a powerful, integrated toolset that helps you to more rapidly iterate on design concepts and accurately analyze daylight effects. Create higher-impact visuals as you explore, validate, and communicate the story behind your design. High-Impact Visuals Made Easier3ds Max Design 2012 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. 
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Iterate Faster, Work in Context3ds Max 2012 forges ahead with the next steps in the Excalibur (XBR) initiative to revitalize 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 InteroperabilityFor many visualizations, 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 modeling 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. Key New Features in Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2012
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Nitrous Accelerated Graphics CoreExperience dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality with the new Nitrous viewport system. Nitrous leverages accelerated GPUs and multi-core workstations to enable you to iterate faster and handle larger data sets. The render-quality display environment support lights, soft shadows, screen-space ambient occlusion, tone-mapping, and higher-quality transparency. 
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Autodesk Alias Design InteroperabilityEnjoy smoother interoperability with Autodesk Alias Design software for industrial design, with the new ability to import .WIRE files natively into 3ds Max Design 2012 as Bodies objects, preserving object names, hierarchies, layers, and material names. You can now interactively adjust tessellation results inside 3ds Max Design and add sculpted details on top of Alias Design reference data using the intuitive Graphite polygon modeling toolset. 
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Substance Procedural TexturesAchieve a vast range of look variations with a new library of 80 Substance procedural textures. These dynamically editable and animatable resolution-independent textures automatically generate bump maps and specular maps for impressive results, and can be quickly converted to bitmaps for rendering. 
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iray RendererCreating highly realistic images is easier with 3ds Max Design, using the newly integrated iray rendering technology from mental images. iray enables you to set up your scene using real-world materials and lighting, press 'render', and get more predictable, photo-real results without worrying about rendering settings; iray progressively refines the image until the desired level of detail is achieved. 
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Stylistic RenderingCreate a variety of non-photorealistic (NPR) effects with the new ability to render stylized images in the viewport and with the Quicksilver renderer. The looser, more abstract style of NPR imagery helps you more effectively communicate your core design intent while deemphasizing distracting or incomplete design details. 
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Autodesk Civil ViewAutomatically create highly realistic visualizations in 3ds Max Design using civil data from AutoCAD Civil 3D with the Civil View (formerly Dynamite VSP) feature set. With the repeatable, style-based process, styles are defined once, and then applied with minimal effort to multiple iterations or projects. Civil View now offers enhanced support for the new iray and Quicksilver rendering solutions. 
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Sculpting and Painting EnhancementsEnjoy greater control over brushstrokes and their effects on geometry, thanks to new sculpting and painting workflows. Some highlights: new Transform brushes enable you to slide vertices along target surfaces; a new Conform brush guides geometry towards another surface; and Paint Deform brushstrokes can now be constrained to a spline for use as a guide or ruler. Autodesk Design Suites 2012A license of Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2012 software can be acquired as part of certain suites offered by Autodesk, including Autodesk Design Suite Premium 2012 and Autodesk Design Suite Ultimate 2012 at a significant cost saving overall. The Premium suite includes AutoCAD 2012 software, Autodesk SketchBook Designer 2012 software, Autodesk Showcase 2012 software and Autodesk Mudbox 2012 software alongside 3ds Max Design 2012, while the Ultimate suite additionally offers Autodesk Alias Design 2012 software. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/suites Top Reasons to Buy Autodesk 3ds Max Design1. Telling Your Design StoryWhen it's time to tell the story behind your design, 3ds Max Design provides an extensive range of features also used by visual effects, broadcast, and games companies to help deliver compelling experiences. Effects: people walking through the scene, flowing waterfalls and fountains, or window drapery waving in the wind can all be created in 3ds Max Design, helping bring your designs to life and helping to engage the viewer emotionally. A high-impact visualization can make the difference between winning a bid or walking away empty-handed. 2. Out-of-the-Box Productivity and Visual Quality3ds Max Design is a tool of choice for leaders in the architecture, civil engineering, and manufacturing industries who are looking for a comprehensive 3D modeling, rendering, and animation solution that helps produce higher-quality results out of the box. The new Nitrous Accelerated Graphics Core dramatically improves performance and visual quality, enabling designers to iterate faster, make creative decisions in context, and handle larger datasets. 3. Simplified Interoperability3ds Max Design offers interoperability with select Autodesk CAD and BIM tools. Streamlined integrated workflows with the AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Alias Design, and Autodesk Inventor software product families provide efficient data continuity throughout the design process. Support for both the DWG file format and the Autodesk FBX asset exchange technology makes it easier for you to enhance your visual BIM data, while the Civil View feature automatically creates realistic visualizations using civil data. 3ds Max Design can import surfaces and solids from Inventor native data and SAT files, as well as WIRE files natively from Autodesk Alias Design. 4. Creative Polygon Toolset3ds Max Design is well known for its extensive polygon modeling and texturing toolset that helps you get the job done faster. The Graphite toolset incorporates 3D modeling tools for freeform sculpting, texture painting, and advanced polygonal modeling–unified in a highly efficient user interface. Moreover, extensive UVW mapping tools help facilitate a wider range of operations for creative texture mapping. 5. A Rendering Revolution3ds Max Design continues to revolutionize the world of rendering, providing an array of options to help you create stunning images faster, and offering solutions to help tackle many production challenges. With unlimited integrated mental ray rendering software, a traditional scan-line renderer, the Quicksilver GPU renderer, and the newly integrated iray “point-and shoot” rendering technology from mental images, you can make creative decisions faster. Whether you require photorealism or stylized hand-drawn looks, finished presentations or early-stage previsualizations, still images or immersive animations, 3ds Max Design has the tools to help you get the rendered results you need. For even more options, choose from a constantly evolving list of third-party rendering plug-ins. 6. Immediate Feedback3ds Max Design uses leading game technology to help provide you with a higher fidelity preview of your materials and lighting in the viewport prior to rendering. This enables you to make interactive decisions in a context that more closely matches the final output, helping to reduce errors and enhance the creative storytelling process. 7. Autodesk MaterialsBenefit from an extensive library of over 1,200 easy-to-use, physically-based materials for mental ray software, based on manufacturing-related data and professional images. The Autodesk Materials library gives you faster access to commonly used building and design materials: wall paint, solid glass, fabrics, wood, tiles and concrete. Moreover, the library enables you to exchange material data with certain other supporting Autodesk applications in a true one-to-one mapping–helping to create a consistent definition and rendered look, and eliminating the need to rework materials after data import. 8. Exposure Lighting AnalysisSimulate the lighting in your designs with confidence–Exposure lighting analysis technology has been validated by the National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada's leading organization for scientific research and development, and the same organization that has conducted validation studies on Radiance for lighting simulation. A feature unique to 3ds Max Design, Exposure enables you to achieve more sustainable designs by analyzing how sun, sky, and artificial lighting interact with your design and exploring direct lighting effects right in the viewport. 9. Partner TechnologyAutodesk joins forces with among the best and brightest in the industry to spearhead continued innovation, and to make sure that 3ds Max Design software customers have access to a wide and current selection of 3D software and hardware. With thousands of commercial and freeware plug-ins available for 3ds Max Design, a constantly evolving world of specialized functionality is available to help meet your specific production needs. 10. Industry StandardAutodesk 3ds Max software has long been a preferred choice for advanced visualization. 3ds Max Design builds on this legacy by providing a more tailored user experience for architects, engineers, designers, and visualization specialists. Available in six languages and used worldwide by professionals and students, 3ds Max Design enjoys a strong, vibrant community and a vast global pool of trained talent. Whether you are an architectural firm looking to outsource or hire locally, or a student preparing for your first job interview, you'll benefit from the wealth of experience that results from the software's position as an industry-leading tool for advanced visualization.
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