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What's New in Autodesk Civil 3D 2025?
Our Consultant, Enrique Barriuso, provides an overview of the new features, improvements, and updates in Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.
Procad has become Symetri
In June 2021, Procad was acquired by Symetri. Part of the Addnode Group, Symetri is one of Europe’s leading providers of digital BIM, product design and lifecycle solutions.
Procad has become Symetri, operating as one company since the beginning of July 2022. Please rest assured its business as usual for us and your service experience will not be impacted.
3DS Max: Error Loading Plug-In DLL
When launching 3ds Max you receive an Error Loading Plug-in DLL dialog. The error states the mentalray.dlz file has failed to initialize:
Upon using 3ds Max to render with NVIDIA Mental Ray or Iray, neither are installed and do not appear for selection in the Render Setup drop-down list under Renderer.
Causes:
When installing 3ds Max with the Setup application (*.exe) file or installing NVIDIA’s separate Mental Ray plugin for the 2018 version, the Mental Ray files seem to be installed in the wrong folder or read incorrectly.
Solution:
Install the newest version of NVIDIA mental ray and IRay (3.14.1.4) for 3ds Max 2017.
Additionally if the issue persists:
- Copy all of the contents from Plugins\NVIDIA\Bin folder directly in the root directory: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max <version>. (Do not Cut the contents from the folder.)
- Start 3ds Max again and the error should not appear and load the render plugins.
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