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Syllabus

3D Links

3D Models & Maps

Week 1
Course Introduction

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Weeks 14
Thanksgiving Holiday

Week 15

Week 16
Final Project Due


 

 

Week 2 Notes

Course intro

Course syllabus (handout)
Website
The 3ds Max program
Crash Course tutorials and Essential Skills movies
Design Visualization Curriculum workbook and dataset

Max interface

Menu bar & toolbars
Command panels
Viewport display
Viewport navigation

  • View User Interface and Viewports tutorial, Crash Course 1

Note: Do not customize the interface on the lab computers.

Quick tour

Create a plane
Create text object
Extrude text object
Add materials to objects
Add a light
Render a still image
Save and print a rendering

Rendering to still formats

Change the render background
Quick Render
Render dialog box

Using downloaded files

Online resources
File types for 3d models
Importing and merging
Replace and Xref
Adding a file path
Cleaning models for use

  • Register at the Area
  • Register at AutoDesk Student Engineering and Design Community

Assignments

  1. Copy the Crash Course and Visualization Curriculum folders from the I drive to a CD.
  2. Read Chapters 1 and 2 in the Visualization Curriculum
  3. Download a free 3d model from the site of your choice, clean it, remove all materials, and save in both .max and .3ds formats. The model should be a piece of furniture.

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