Description
Reasons to Buy Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2009 software enables architects, designers, and visualization specialists to fully explore, validate and communicate their creative ideas – from concept models to cinema-quality visualizations.

A comprehensive 3D modeling, animation and rendering solution, it delivers powerful, new lighting simulation and analysis technology, advanced rendering capabilities, and faster, more integrated workflows with the AutoCAD® and Revit® software families of products.
Exposure™ lighting analysis technology designed to assist architects in evaluating light intensity for assisting with LEED 8.1 certification.
New ProMaterials™ library simulates manufacturer-related building and design materials. New FBX®-based Recognize™ scene loading technology enables 3ds Max users to quickly and accurately import geometry, lights, materials, and cameras from Revit 2009 scenes. Reveal™ rendering toolset – which streamlines iterative workflows.

Requirements
Hardware At a minimum, 3ds Max Design 2009 32-bit software requires a system with: Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ XP or higher processor 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) 500 MB swap space (2 GB recommended) Hardware-accelerated OpenGL and Direct3D supported Microsoft Windows – compliant pointing device (optimized for Microsoft IntelliMouse® Explorer Mouse DVD-ROM drive Note: Apple® computers based on Intel processors and running Microsoft operating systems are not officially supported. At a minimum, 3ds Max Design 2009 64-bit software requires a system with: Intel EM64T, AMD Athlon 64 or higher, AMD Opteron™ processor 1 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) 500 MB swap space (2 GB recommended) Hardware-accelerated OpenGL and Direct3D supported Microsoft Windows – compliant pointing device (optimized IntelliMouse) DVD-ROM drive