Host Application: 3ds Max
Host Application Version: 7, 8, 9, 2009, 2010, 2011
Operating System: Multiple
Plugin Version: Various

The Next Generation of Modeling. Power NURBS [PRO].


Power NURBS unique hybrid approach fuses the next generation NURBS surface construction technology with the industry’s leading Solids Modeling technology bringing an unparalleled modeling experience to the 3ds Max Platform.

Power NURBS modeling environment is designed to provide artists intuitive access to complex advanced modeling tools allowing you to expand your creative potential beyond the polygon world.


Imagine NURBS that work.


Quickly sketch out your idea with our free form NURBS curve network. Easily blend or sweep your curves into complex interconnected organic shapes. Intuitively re-sculpt your form on the fly while changes automatically propagate through your model. Produce complex surface detail by drawing and projecting curves onto your model. Cutaway, intersect, join or Boolean surfaces and solids without having to clean up polygon errors. Feel the joy of selecting any edge or set of edges and applying numerous fillet combinations that work and with our resolution independent meshing technology. Never worry about poly count again. Sound too good to be true? Think again. It’s all here in Power NURBS, so stop imagining and truly experience the next generation of modeling.


Power NURBS Advanced Features


A hybrid SURFACE/SOLIDS creation and editing environment

Powerful Artist Oriented User Interface - for fast, flexible construction and editing.

Intelligent NURBS Sketcher – easily sketch, draw or trace complex NURBS curve networks

Power Trim - trimming and splitting with projected curves and surface. See Video. Also added were powerful offset, step back and filling tools to enable the user to quickly and easily create complex surface features.

Solid Boolean features - Join, intersect, merge, subtract and trim complex combinations of surfaces and solids without polygon artifacts.

Power Blend - double sided blend and moving much of the common operations into the right click menu. See Video. "Side Blending" to enable users to create blends with 3 and 4 tangent sides.

Advanced surface and Solids Filleting - Round any edge or edges with numerous fillet types and any combination of radii.

Power X Curve - the ability to produce an intersection curve between 2 surfaces.

Intelligent objects - retain parameterization and includes full, navigatable, per-object history.

Resolution independent surfaces – easily adjust a model’s level of detail for the viewport or rendering.

Power Composite Sketch - the composite sketch can be used to reference curves in sketches as well as edges of surfaces. You can also split a composite sketch now.

Power Sketch - tangent and perpendicular constraints for NURBS curves and surfaces. "Fix Curves" button which does automatic vertex merging setting tangency between curves. See Video. Also,right click menu items for common operations.

Power Bevel - create bevels of various shapes around the edges of a surface to help them to render more realistically. See Video.

Power 2-D Boolean - does 2-D Boolean operations between closed sketches.

Power Surface Tools - provides surface draping and re approximation.

Power Blend Curve - creates a 3-D blending curve between surfaces or edges. It updates when underlying curve/surfaces change.

Power Project - creates a curve which represents the projection of a curve onto a surface or surfaces. It updates when underlying curve or surfaces change

Power Offset- creates offsets for the surfaces of a given object.

Creation of Surface Grids - creation of a grid on the surface which represents the ISO curves displayed on the surface. This allows drawing on a surface with vertex and curve snapping.

UV Trimming Sub-Object - sub-object mode to allow the user to dynamically adjust the default UV trimming curves of Rail Sweep, Blend, and Corner Blend surfaces


Quick Installation Reference:

Quick Help Prior to Installing Power NURBS Pro...


After installing Power NURBS Pro and selecting the appropriate plugin in the first dialogue option, the following config file (nPower_Config30.ini) should be created in the root Max directory. If you are having any difficulties with the product, first check if the config file has the corresponding attribute:

[AvailablePowerTools]
PowerSolids=0
PowerSurfa=0
PowerNURBSPro=1
PowerTranslatorsBasic=0
PowerTranslatorsUniversal=0
PowerTranslatorsPro=0
PowerTranslatorsRhino=0


Note:

*Please ensure that NURBS Pro is the only Surfacing plugin enabled*

*Translators Universal is compatible with NURBS Pro*

*Translators Pro is NOT compatible with NURBS Pro*


Note for customers using Vista...

 After running the installer, you will need to explicitly "Run as Administrator" from the start menu the first time that you run 3ds Max. This only needs to be done the first time you run 3ds Max so that it can finish installing and authorizing your software.

 
 For additional help please read our FAQ located in the Support Forums.

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