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Which Autodesk products use the Mental Ray technology?

Autodesk cooperates with the company Mental Images (developer of mental ray) since the year 1996. The first Autodesk product with the visualization/3D rendering technology by Mental Images was 3ds max 2.0 and 3D Studio VIZ R2.

Mental Ray and Mental Matter were later added also to other Autodesk applications. In newer versions of these applications, the following versions of the mental ray rendering kernel are available:

Autodesk 3ds max
3ds max 2010	mental ray 3.7+
3ds max 2009	mental ray 3.6.51
3ds max 2008	mental ray 3.6
3ds max 9	mental ray 3.5
3ds max 8	mental ray 3.4, mental matter 3.4
3ds max 7	mental ray 3.3, mental matter 3.3
Autodesk VIZ
VIZ 2008	mental ray 3.5, mental matter 3.5
VIZ 2007	mental ray 3.4, mental matter 3.4
VIZ 2006	mental ray 3.3, mental matter 3.3
Autodesk Maya
Maya 2013	mental ray 3.10
Maya 2012	mental ray 3.9
Maya 2011	mental ray 3.8
Maya 2008	mental ray 3.6
Maya 8	mental ray 3.5
Maya 7	mental ray 3.4
Autodesk ImageStudio
ImageStudio 3	mental ray 3.4
AutoCAD (+ADT,Civil...)
AutoCAD 2015	mental ray 3.12 (3.12.0.15)
AutoCAD 2014	mental ray 3.8 (3.8.1.16)
AutoCAD 2013	mental ray 3.8 (3.8.1.16)
AutoCAD 2012	mental ray 3.8 (3.8.1.16)
AutoCAD 2011	mental ray 3.8 (3.8.1.3)
AutoCAD 2010	mental ray 3.6 (3.6.50.1901)
AutoCAD 2009	mental ray 3.6 (3.6.50.19)
AutoCAD 2008	mental ray 3.5 (3.5.5.2)
AutoCAD 2007	mental ray 3.4 (3.4.7.11)
Autodesk Inventor
Inventor 2014	mental ray 3.8 (3.8.3.37)
Inventor 2013	mental ray 3.8 (3.8.3.37)
Inventor 2012	mental ray 3.8 (3.8.3.37)
Inventor 2010	mental ray 3.6 (3.6.51.7)
Inventor 2009	mental ray 3.5 (3.5.5.2)
Inventor 2008	mental ray 3.5 (3.5.5.2)
Inventor 11	mental ray 3.4 (3.4.7.10)
Inventor 10	mental ray 3.3 (3.3.5.49)
Revit
Revit 2014	mental ray 3.10 (3.10.0.4)
Revit 2010	mental ray 3.6 (3.6.1.11)
Revit 2009	mental ray 3.6 (3.6.1.11)

(raytracing, gi global illumination, final gather)

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