Thanks for looking into that. Unfortunately creating a plug in would be beyond me and my network. Hopefully someone might pick up the ball in the future. I will keep looking for a smooth workflow as I think Octane's realtime render feedback and interface would really suit an occassional user like me ...

Ahh I see. The units thing shouldn't be an issue as I have a lot of control over units in SE (I think?). Kubo do you know if there is an Octane exporter available for Solid Edge? I can't find any reference to it. Thanks for your help.

Thanks GK and Kubo for your responses, much appreciated.

I am still not sure where I am going wrong.

Some more background.....All my models are models of real products in development coming out of the engineering software Solid Edge (similar to solid works). They are all in real units and range ...

Hi all, I am looking for any Solid Edge users out there. I am hoping to find an efficient workflow to get files from Solid Edge into Octane. I am currently using: Solid Edge > Simlab Composer (trial license at this stage) imports directly without translation > to Octane ....but it isn't without its ...

I am quickly evaluating Octane for purchase. I hope this isn't a ridiculously dum question but is there a "zoom to fit" function in Octane. I am importing objects and quite often the scene is very tightly framed so that in order to see anything I have to zoom out a couple of dozen times with the ...