Sending Data to and from Other Autodesk Products

The Send To submenu provides interoperability with other Autodesk products.

• Application Menu > Send To > Send To submenu
• Establish a connection from the Application menu. > Modify geometry. > 3ds Max status bar > (Update Current Scene)
• Establish a connection from the Application menu > 3ds Max status bar > to break the connection (or close the current 3ds Max scene, or do the same in the other application)

Important: You must have installed an equivalent version of the other application to see the Send To command options available in the File menu. For example, Maya 2015 and 3ds Max 2015 are equivalent versions.

The Send To commands establish a connection between 3ds Max and the target application. While the connection is established, the applications share data. To break the connection, simply close the scene in one of the applications, exit one of the applications, or use Send To to send to a different target application: Each application can be connected to only one other application at a time.

After you send a selection to the target application, the 3ds Max status line shows that the connection has been established:

Further 3ds Max activity can overwrite the "Connected" message in the status line, but once you start a connection, a button at the right end of the status line remains active. You can click this button to send a selection:

The Send button is actually a flyout with two choices:

Click (Update Current Scene) to send geometry to the target application. Click to break the connection.