Importing .3Ds

[sircharlesgraham]

Hi, just a quick one.

When I import my .3Ds file to Maya I can't see it in the grid. How do I

1. get it to be within the clipping plane

2. centred in the scene

Thanks
Graham 

[joojaa]

you dont, not really the roiginal file may be located differently. But you can

1, autoadjuist clippingplanes
2. center the view.

Well techically you can do both the way you ask too but thst not necceserily as smart as it sounds. So yes it could be done autmatically but you wouldnt like it.

[benrickel]

i go to outliner and find the group it imported it to. then most the time have to adjust my far plane from 1000-to 10k to make it easyer to see then scale it down position it to the grid then scale it back up . i found most 3ds i have imported 99 percent of the time thier not going to be on the grid

[joojaa]

Yes however if you allways move yourr models then you can not import stuff in thet was built in same reference frame, so your models may become incompatible woth each other (assuming they were to start with). Anyway there is some reason the things were modelled of center so they will be there. (ok so most likely the reason is it was done in autodad or something in wich case the origin is allways quite much off since autocad users doent work on origin much)

Besides you dont actually need to know where some model is inorder to snap it to the origin tahst what the middle mouse is for.

As for scale thets easy your using faux meters whereas the 3ds is allomst certainly using meters.

[sircharlesgraham]

Still got no idea what your talking about.

How do you sanp the object to the centre grid? 

[joojaa]

hold down the 'x' key and midlemouseclick on the center. You dont actually need to see the object your snapping.

[sircharlesgraham]

much appreciated.