3ds Max Assemblies

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3ds Max Assemblies

The 3ds Max .NET exposure consists of a series of .NET assemblies (DLLs) distributed with the 3ds Max SDK under maxsdk\assemblies and maxsdk\x64\assemblies. These same assemblies are distributed in the 3ds Max application installation. No header files or libraries are needed for .NET compilation.

The 3ds Max .NET SDK consists of these assemblies:

CSharpUtilities.dll - generally applicable utility classes for .NET programming.
ExplorerFramework.dll - underlying abstract explorer framework classes upon which the Scene Explorer is built.
ManagedServices.dll - exposure of some general native 3ds Max SDK functionality to .NET.
MaxCustomControls.dll - UI components built on the .NET Framework for use in 3ds Max.
SceneExplorer.dll - Specializations of the ExplorerFramework components for the Scene Explorer and bindings to the native 3ds Max data set.