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HDRI lighting with 3ds max and mental ray - VIZPARK In this tutorial you can learn how you to set up and light a 3ds max exterior scene with a HDRI Skydome and mental ray. While hdri lighting is not very complicated it´s necessary to know some details in order to get a useful result. The VP HDRI Skydomes have a very high dynamic range, which is best to create sharp sun shadows. Also they have an accurate white balance that will bring convincing and colorful lighting into your scene with a few clicks. Basically you just need to follow 3 main steps: First to create a standard skydome light, then create background map and third the proper exposure settings.
Free AutoCAD Tutorials Introduction to AutoCAD 2010 Welcome to the world of CAD - In this first tutorial you will be learning the very basics of CAD. This course is designed so that the commands and instructions should work on almost any version of AutoCAD, although this version is designed specifically for AutoCAD 2010 and will work great for 2012. By the end of this level you will have the skills to develop basic 2D drawings and print them out to scale. Daniel Smith CSA - AutoCAD Tutorial This tutorial (in HTML form) for AutoCAD beginners was developed by Professor Nancy Wilkie of Carleton College and Harrison Eiteljorg, II, Director of the Center for the Study of Architecture. It is copyrighted by them but may be freely downloaded, used, and distributed with the following conditions: 1) this heading must remain with the document 2) no charge of any kind may be made for distribution or usage by others 3) no changes in the document may be made by anyone in the chain of distribution. Note also that this page has not been re-designed in keeping with the August, 2010, re-design of the CSA site in general.
AutoCAD Tutorials CADTutor The AutoCAD tutorials section contains a range of tutorials from beginner to advanced and covering both 2D and 3D. The tutorials are divided into categories; The Basics, Beyond Basics, Techniques, Modelling and Rendering and Exercises. If you're looking for something specific, try the relevant category or take a look at the full listing on this page. We've recently added some great AutoCAD video tutorials for a new learning experience. This section of the site is still growing so check back often. The Mad Cadder AutoCAD Let me paint a picture.....You receive a folder structure from another company or IT has moved the folder location on a server that contains thousands of DWG files and their associated Xrefs. The problem is that the path is incorrect for most of these Xrefs which means that when you open the host drawing the Xref will be "Not Found". Let me paint the picture a little clearer with an example........The company standard is to save all projects in the following folder location on the server - S:\Engineering\Plans.
The Best, the Rest, the Rare: 100 AutoCAD Tips You Should Know We all want to use AutoCAD better, more productive, and easily solve problem when we have one. So I compile 100 AutoCAD tips in this article, and I hope can help you. Many of the tips were written by other great CAD bloggers, you may want to follow their blog/site as well.