Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 1959

Material Options group Import Inventor Materials When turned on, all Inventor materials and texture maps are translated and imported into the scene. If turned off, no materials are imported with the model. Assign Material IDs Lets you control whether material IDs are assigned to objects that are imported from Inventor. You can assign different materials to different surfaces of the same object while working in Inventor. When these objects are imported to 3ds Max, material IDs are assigned to the faces of single objects to which multiple materials are applied. For example, you've created a single object that represents a knob that has a threaded shaft and you've applied a black, plastic material to the knob and a silver, metal material to the threaded shaft. If Assign Material IDs is turned on when you import the model into 3ds Max, the faces of the object that have the plastic material are assigned material ID #1 and the faces that have the metal material are assigned material ID #2. If you choose to try different materials while working in 3ds Max, you can quickly make sub-object selections on page 220 based on the material IDs or apply a Multi/Sub-Object material on page 5720 that contains materials that correspond to the IDs assigned to the faces. Mesh Resolution group Mesh Resolution This slider lets you determine the degree of refinement applied to mesh objects by the importation process. When set to 0 (zero), the geometry is imported as it appears in Autodesk Inventor. When set less than zero, the mesh is optimized with fewer faces thus reducing detail. If the mesh resolution is set higher than zero, the mesh is tessellated with more faces, giving you greater detail. The mesh resolution slider is always set to 0 when you initiate an import. 7214 | Chapter 23 Managing Scenes and Projects