3DS Export for Alibre Design is an 3D Studio 3DS file export add-on for Alibre Design®. This add-on gives Alibre Design the ability to export 3D solid data from a Alibre Design part and assembly document to 3D Mesh objects in a 3D Studio 3DS file.
3DS Export for Alibre Design tessellates the solid bodies in a Alibre Design part or assembly document into individual triangular meshes. These meshes are then exported to 3D Studio 3DS file mesh objects.
3DS Export for Alibre Design is very easy to use. It adds new commands to Alibre Design. Once installed, it automatically loads itself into Alibre Design and adds a new submenu called "3DSExport" to the Alibre Design menu containing these new commands.
The '3DS Export for Alibre Design' menu consists of the following commands:
# Export - Export to a 3DS file
# Help - Display the 3DS Export for Alibre Design help file
# Register - Register your copy of 3DS Export for Alibre Design
# About - Display the 3DS Export for Alibre Design About box
The 3DS File Format
The 3DS file format is the native file format of 3D Studio. 3D Studio has now been replaced by 3ds Max whose native file format has a .max file extension. However, 3ds Max is still able to read and write .3ds files. 3ds Max is one of the most widely-used off the shelf 3D animation programs. It has strong modeling capabilities, a flexible plug-in architecture and a long heritage on the Microsoft Windows platform. It is mostly used by video game developers, TV commercial studios and architectural visualization studios. It is also used for movie effects and movie pre-visualization.