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From: Craig Graham <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Triangles to quads
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 18:11:11 +0000
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Miles Buzzing wrote:
> 
> Try selecting the option 'Inhibit to triangulate' against Polygon Style in
> Dxf2RsdW (or the -quad switch in the DOS version). This option prevents
> quads being converted into two triangles - well at least it does when using
> DXF models created in Truespace. I think I read somewhere however that 3D
> Studio converts quads to triangles when it saves DXF models so that may be
> the root of your problem.

3DS Max doesn't actually have real quads - it's all triangles internally
and there's no way to export quads from it (without writing your own
plugin or a MaxScript utility).

> 
> - Miles

Craig.