3ds Max plugins

Maxon

Fast production GPU renderer.

Chaos

Photoreal renderer for architecture, advertising and film.

Tyson Ibele

Particle and simulation system for 3ds Max with a free base version.

iToo Software

Scatter millions of objects: forests, lawns, crowds and rocks.

Exoside

Automatic retopology into clean quad meshes.

Chaos

Animated 3D people and crowds for visualizations.

Atelier Bump

Modeling toolkit for 3ds Max with CAD-style transforms, measuring, snapping, UVW mapping and cloning tools.

JTB World Inc.

Free 3ds Max add-in that builds HTML reports of current FlexNet/FLEXlm network license usage.

KSTUDIO

Creates and updates architectural profiles with the Sweep modifier in 3ds Max, with built-in and custom profile libraries.

ITOOSOFT

Non-destructive 3ds Max modifier that clones and offsets splines with incremental translation, rotation and healing.

ITOOSOFT

Procedural 3ds Max texture map that paints gradients along an object's visible edges, with ramp and noise controls.

Christophe Blattmann

Procedural FA_Building object for 3ds Max that generates simple architecture with real-time adjustable parameters.

Colin Senner

MAXScript tool that relinks missing bitmaps, V-Ray proxies, HDRIs and IES files after folders or computers change.

Inglobe Technologies

Exports 3ds Max models to the AR-media Studio platform for building augmented and virtual reality experiences.

SiNi Software

Scene-diagnosis tool for 3ds Max that removes malicious scripts, CAD and Revit blocks, and unifies normals.

SiNi Software

Free 3ds Max tool that distributes geometry, proxies and cache files across surfaces with up to a million points.

3DZver

3ds Max script that converts scenes between render engines to V-Ray or Corona and exports PBR/glTF materials.

Autodesk, Inc.

Autodesk plugin that bakes Adaptive Subdivision lighting onto a new mesh's vertices for real-time viewing.

Autodesk, Inc.

Breaks selected 3ds Max objects into separate three- or four-sided faces with options for shells, centering and cleanup.

Hannes

Switches the 3ds Max MAXScript listener to dark mode automatically at startup.

Chaos Czech a.s.

Photorealistic renderer for 3ds Max with interactive LightMix, scattering, denoising and new procedural clouds in version 9.

Atelier Bump

Draws rule-of-thirds, golden ratio and perspective guide lines in the 3ds Max viewport for framing shots.

Sketchfab

Publishes 3ds Max models to Sketchfab in a few clicks, handling export, zipping and upload.

Kstudio

Asset library manager for 3ds Max that classifies models with a local AI engine and searches by color or visual similarity.

SIMPOLIUM

Free 3ds Max plugin that highlights open splines, finds self-intersections and reports segment counts.

Moicon

Digital twin platform on Autodesk Forge that turns factory machine, sensor and worker data into readable breakdowns.

Parametric Zoo

Scripted plug-in collection for 3ds Max that builds rule-based design and animation from linked parametric nodes.

PolyTools3D

UV toolset for 3ds Max with multi-shell stitching, custom packing, shell matching and UDIM tile rendering.

Atelier Bump

3ds Max modifier that sizes objects by exact width, depth and height values instead of scale factors.

Tim Catalano

Parametric array modifier for 3ds Max with advanced options beyond the built-in array tools.

atanasbak

Scripted 3ds Max plug-in that builds roof tiles, tiled floors, brick walls and fences from planes, geometry or splines.

ProtoTech Solutions and Services Pvt. Ltd

Trial of an exporter that writes 3ds Max solid bodies to interactive HTML files viewable in any modern browser.

Autodesk, Inc.

Autodesk utility that detects and removes known malicious scripts from 3ds Max startup files and scenes.

Community

Blender add-on that aligns selected objects to the active object from a sidebar panel.

Autodesk, Inc.

Autodesk's recommended tool for finding and removing known malicious third-party scripts from 3ds Max.

Autodesk, Inc.

Autodesk's recommended scene security tool that cleans known malicious scripts, rewritten in C++ since version 2.0.

Eclat Digital

Exports 3ds Max scenes to the Ocean input format (.ocxml) for the Ocean full-spectral light simulation renderer.

ProtoTech Solutions and Services Pvt. Ltd

Trial exporter that writes 3ds Max solid bodies to OBJ files, with tessellation and precision control.

ProtoTech Solutions and Services Pvt. Ltd

Exports 3ds Max solid bodies to HTML files that show interactive 3D models in any modern web browser.

Visual Integrity

AutoCAD plug-in trial that converts vector PDFs into editable drawings with layers, entities and text.

Autodesk, Inc.

Creates stereoscopic camera rigs in 3ds Max with Nitrous viewport eye modes and stereo zone volumes.

Splashtop -- High Performance 3D Remote Desktop

Remote desktop streamer for reaching GPU-heavy 3ds Max workstations from other computers and mobile devices.

masquerade

MAXScript that builds a full page-turning book rig for any page count in one click, with animatable controls.

BackToCAD Technologies, LLC

PDF to DWG/DXF converter with AI vectorization of raster images and OCR text recognition, listed for 3ds Max users.

BackToCAD Technologies, LLC

Standalone batch converter that turns 2D/3D PDFs into editable DWG or DXF drawings with AI vectorization and OCR.

BackToCAD Technologies, LLC

Windows batch converter that turns DWG/DXF files into 2D PDF, 3D PDF and PRC output.

KSTUDIO

Generates splines that flow smoothly from one to the next along a path in 3ds Max, with animatable parameters.

Super Nova

Fusion 360 extension that syncs models, tracks versions and shares design data with cloud systems.