exporting issues!!

# 1 08-04-2008 , 09:42 AM

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Im trying to export a maya model with composite geometries (polygons and nurbs) to a .dwg/ rhino compatible interface. With *iges, I cannot do polygons and with *obj or *dxf I end up triangulating the polygonal grid and it wont do nurbs....
Im trying to use the new export plugin released by autodesk https://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/maya_export_dwg/
This should convert maya files to dwg files... But it doesnt seem to work . I get a very small file size 23kb and it wont show anything in AutoCAD.
I did also try to export into illustrator but run into viewport issues here....
Let me know if theres any way to export the file to rhino or AutoCAD
thanks!!
sarosh
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# 2 08-04-2008 , 10:13 AM

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Try using the FBX format, it supports NURBS and Polys...

And it seems Rhino supports it.

https://download.mcneel.com/download.asp?id=FBX20060309

Also look at https://area.autodesk.com/index.php/ for any plugins for fbx.

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# 3 08-04-2008 , 10:35 AM

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Thats awesome thanks R@nsid but I still get a kind of triangulation of the mesh... (this is typically when the same polygon mesh changes smoothing attributes - so all of those polyons get triangulated)
even so this works better than dxf or iges
sarosh

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