How do I get my 3DMax scene into Maya ?
 

For some stupid reason i model my design in 3d max but i love the MAya 7 or 8.5 and I would like to finish the project there ...
Any sugestions?

Many thanks

go get the bonus tool from autodesk (for maya 7,8 or 8.5) within them is a 3ds importer.

they can be found at the

area.autodesk.com

site but you got to sign up

they work really well as we had to use them in work the other day

There is also the opion to import and export using the fbx option. Again this free plugin is available at www.the-area.com

fbx comes with maya anyway ???

no need for pluggin, just have to turn it on in the pluggins

we use it all the time for mo-cap data

yes, but you have to ensure that Max and Maya are using the same version, otherwise you will get issues.

So get the latest version for both.

I usually just export as object from max and then maya lets me import that.

yer thats fine if its a single object or you want your model to be one peice, but if you want to keep it seperated its not the way to go. Maya`s seperate tool does not seperate obj perfelty ever time