Import max models?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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I need to open a max model. The file is “file.max”, but there are no import options for files with this extension.
If I rename it to “file.3ds” the command line reports “no meshes in this model”

Apparently the file is a max “scan line” model, whatever that means…?

Thanks
rabbit

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3ds Max saves scenes to a proprietary binary format with the extension .MAX. The specification of the format is not public. The content of the file is heavily dependent on the plug-in data used to build the scene, thus parsing the file outside of 3ds Max makes little sense.

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Oh…so boring!
Perhaps it might be useful to pop what you have just said into the help file…?

Thanks Dale
rabbit

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I’m on it.