Use the 3DSOUT command. This will take selected objects and export them to a .3ds file to use in Max.
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Karl M. Fuls PLS
Autocad Training and Consulting
You may want to take some steps to lighten the load in Windows - which will go a long ways towards better performance in Atuocad.
1) Set wallpaper (desktop) to none. This will free up a lot of GDI resource. Also set your screen saver to none. That's one less thing to Windows to worry about.
2)...
The ISM module, or ism.arx is installed during a normal deployment of Autocad. It's possible that your DEMANDLOAD sysvar is set to something other than 3, which will load ism.arx when it detects an image object in the drawing.
Ism.arx is also specific to the type of file loaded.
Try setting...
Usually, an orphan drawing lock will cause the file to open as 'ead only' or prevent you from opening it at all. I suspect a corrupted drawing.
Use drawing recovery to try to purge the bad voodoo.
If that fails, open a new drawing and insert the suspect drawing as an exploded block.
If that...
The simplest method to accomplish this is by color/pen relationship. Take the colors that represent the items to be 'ghosted' and in you pen settings, assign them a grayscale - say 50%. The other items will plot with their full 100% density and will appear bolder. If you wish, you can also...
Check out Better WMF from www.furix.com. It will create a Windows Metafile observing lineweight based on color (like plotting), reverse the black background automatically, and crop to a predetermined size.
It is indispensible....
Karl M. Fuls PLS
This is a known problem. Refer to:<br><br><A HREF="http://www3.autodesk.com/adsk/support/techdoc/0,,148302--123737-0_21837,00.html" TARGET="_new">http://www3.autodesk.com/adsk/support/techdoc/0,,148302--123737-0_21837,00.html</A><br><br>for additional information.<br><br>I hope this helps.....
