I'm a beginner in 3ds. I'm working on this project, a bus I created years ago in pencil sketch, then CorelDraw, then Photoshop, now 3ds.
Everything was going well, I finished the body, glass, seats, lights, small details, but... when I started doing the wheels, things got ugly.
In this type of bus, a 4-axis, there are 10 wheels. But when I finished the second wheel, my pc went to the limit, because of RAM - I have 1Gb only. And the wheels are very detailed, I made two versions of wheels. I'm not talking about rendering.. just to move objects in wireframe is extremely slow. To render it's a lifetime. For example, I render a 640x480 jpg in 45 minutes..
What I need to know is how to weld all the wheel objects - nuts, rims, etc. I believe this is going to make the file less heavy, once it has less polys to generate.
I searched in Google but didn't find what I'm looking for, if anyone can help, please.