Why 3ds Max?
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Create higher-quality imagery
Help clients visualize your interior design ideas down to the last detail. Advanced tools in 3ds Max give you the unmatched ability to create the highest quality photorealistic renderings.
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Work faster and meet deadlines
Create better 3D content in less time by automating tasks. Accommodate design alternatives, handle client changes responsively, freely test concepts – and know in advance whether they’ll work.
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Win more bids with interactive rendering
The built-in Arnold renderer provides a fully interactive experience and can render previews while you work and iterate quickly.
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Bring your client’s vision to life with industry leading tools
“I found everything I needed in 3ds Max. The flexibility, the support base, and all the help with everything from modeling to the rendering process.”
Stefan Lopusny, Fat Tony Studio
Whether you’re designing custom renovations from floor to ceiling, or adding finishing touches to fabrics and furniture, 3ds Max helps you craft your vision (and your client’s), down to the last detail. Explore, fine-tune and communicate your ideas—and help your clients visualize what it’s like to live in the space you’ve designed and created.
3ds Max provides a professional, powerful way to sharpen your competitive edge by visually communicating your proposed designs and beautifully telling your client’s story with realistic elements and details.
Why you’ll love 3ds Max
HIGHLY INTERACTIVE MODELING
3ds Max offers a rich and flexible toolset to model premium architectural designs, allowing full artistic control to translate technical drawings into visual stories.
Key benefits
Inspire, communicate, and sell your vision with detailed environments, objects, and embellishments.
HIGHLY INTERACTIVE MODELING
Advanced tools in 3ds Max give you the unmatched ability to create the highest quality photo-real renderings. Tell the story of your design with visuals, and create a premium experience of your client’s future investment.
EMBELLISH EVERY DETAIL
With industry-leading lighting, coloring and texturing capabilities, 3ds Max lets you get into the finest details from sunlight to water, vegetation to glass, down to the direction of thread on a fabric.
DELIVER ON TIME
In an all-in-one package that reduces time-consuming modeling and iterations, 3ds Max allows you to make real time changes with your customers, and build from basic shapes or templates that you can quickly model out into your own designs.
CONVEY YOUR VISION
Present your work to colleagues and clients early in the design process. 3ds Max allows you to communicate from rudimentary design intent through to the full scope of your creative vision.
EXPRESS YOUR SIGNATURE STYLE
3ds Max gives you the creative palette you need to bring your design ideas to life and impress your customers. Translate your vision into reality, craft a high-end portfolio, and take your career further.
Key features
3ds Max offers to interior design.
REVIT IMPORT CAPABILITIES
Revit® Architecture building information models can be quickly and accurately imported into 3ds Max, including geometry, lights, materials and cameras.
AUTOCAD IMPORT
Import your AutoCAD file into 3ds Max to create a general structure before adding embellishments.
PHYSICALLY BASED LIGHTING
Simulate sun, sky, and other artificial lighting sources to accurately portray how light and shadows will interact with designs.
PLACEMENT TOOL
Quickly populate, move, and place objects such as surfaces, furniture, and decorative models. Intuitive auto-parenting and aligning behaviors make it simpler to position and orient content anywhere within your scenes.
INTERACTIVE RENDERING
Interactive rendering allows you to see and make changes in your scene in near-final rendering quality, displaying in the render frame window while you work.
EXTENSIVE MATERIAL EDITING
Create any material finish such as transparent glass and marble, and build custom libraries of your favorite materials, colors and textures — then share them all with teams and studios.
FLUIDS & ANIMATION
Create realistic liquid behaviors directly in 3ds Max to add effects such as water fountains, kitchen fixtures, weather effects, and pools.
SEAMLESS VR/AR WORKFLOW
With the FBX Export plugin, a one touch round-tripping journey between 3ds Max and Unity automatically mirrors changes you make to your 3D assets in Unity, meaning faster iteration, greater productivity and more time savings.
3ds Max puts powerful 3D capabilities into the hands of you, the design professional. Explore what 3ds Max can do for you.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Get access to support specialists, remote assistance, and online resources
UP-TO-DATE SOFTWARE
Receive instant access to the newest features and performance improvements
FLEXIBLE SUBSCRIPTION PLANS
Use 3ds Max as long as you need it from one month to multiple years
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Plans and pricing
Flexible plans for you and your team
Design visualization software for powerful 3D modeling, animation, and rendering
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The Future of Design Visualization
"Having used Autodesk software for more than 30 years I can’t imagine using any other software for large-scale archviz projects."
– Nigel Hunt, Owner of Urbân
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Keeping the Creative Wheels Turning
"It is our 3D workhorse, and we love the file format flexibility it provides; nearly every format we need is supported."
– Carlos Cristerna, Principal at Neoscape & Director of RadLab
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Practice makes perfect
"Advanced plug-in support and its ease of use is a great advantage for users."
– M.Serhat Sezgin