[Henry Anthony]

Inventor has a plugin designed to specifically do this - to Max 5. Unfortunately the update to Max 6 seems to not be available. I have read many posts on different forums on the topic. You might try a plugin from nPower Software called Power Translators. There is a demo download but I have yet to try it. Worth a chance though. I have heard good things about this company.

http://www.npowersoftware.com/trans/trans.html