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Re: Assistance converting Inventor to 3DS Max

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Originally Posted by Lev
Here is what you do: Export as STL file from Inventor, and then import it in 3dsmax. You'll have to tweak the import settings to get it right, but these should work for most cases:

turn on Autoweld
turn off Auto Normals.
set the smoothing angle somewhere from 10 to 20
Tried doing this, but you can't save an assembly file as a .stl file... at least, we don't have that option..? Any suggestions?
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