Creating Mechanical Drawings

Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping

In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.

# 1 20-03-2008 , 08:09 PM

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Can anybody describe or give any advice to me as it relates to going from creating a design in Maya and then creating mechanical drawings for build out. I have tried to use the dimension tool, but they dont render out...any advice is appreciated.

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# 2 20-03-2008 , 08:18 PM

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screen capture it instead? *shrug*

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# 3 21-03-2008 , 02:39 AM

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If you have AutoCAD, you can export your scene into a format AutoCAD can read and then open exported file in AutoCAD and make the drawings there.

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# 4 21-03-2008 , 09:49 AM

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Thanks for the advice - I have vectorworks - that can import .3ds- will try that.
Still looking for a the "magic" work flow that lives just in MAYA.

Thanks again

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