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■ Exporting IGES Files on page 7230 ■ IGES to 3ds Max Import Table on page 7228 ■ Importing IGES Files on page 7226 Importing IGES Files File menu > Import > IGES (*.IGE, *.IGS, *.IGES) IGES files are used to import and export NURBS objects to and from 3ds Max (and other programs that support this file format). For more information, see Overview of IGES in 3ds Max on page 7223. In some cases, when you import an IGES file, the translation doesn't produce exact replicas. To understand what happens to each entity when it's translated, review the IGES import table on page 7228. 3ds Max imports an object containing multiple surfaces as a single NURBS object. To work with a single surface of the object, detach it in sub-object NURBS and work with only that object. This releases the rest of the object from memory. For more information, see NURBS on page 7224. When you import IGES files, 3ds Max creates a log file containing detailed information about the processing of the model. The name of the file has the form of filename.xli. For more information, see IGES Log files on page 7225. NOTE 3ds Max creates and uses a few temporary files during translation. Temporary files can be large. If there has been a computer or IGES translation failure and temporary files remain on your system, they might need to be removed to free up disk space. For storage of these temporary files in Windows, 3ds Max uses the directory specified by the TEMP environment variable, or the current directory if TEMP is not set. See also: ■ 3ds Max to IGES Export Table on page 7231 ■ Exporting IGES Files on page 7230 ■ IGES Log Files on page 7225 ■ IGES to 3ds Max Import Table on page 7228 ■ Importing IGES Files on page 7226 7226 | Chapter 23 Managing Scenes and Projects