URGENT help needed - importing polylines
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hi all,
im running OSX
and am trying to import a drawing from vectorworks (v12) into sketchup (v6)basically the drawing is a map of a part of a city that i have drawn the buildings in 2d fill with the intention of push pulling up to their height in sketchup. i am exporting as a DWG file but when i import in sketchup only the buildings with 4 corners seem to come through. any building with more than 4 vertices has disappeared! the same happens whether or not the 2d fills are drawn as a polyline or polygon... im stuck!
any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I can try import export on my pc if You post your files.
Actually i have nothing to say about this yet. I need to see it by myself. -
Have you hatched the buildings in on the plan (you say "fill"). Remove it if you have and try again.
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its actually behaving rather strangely in that if in vectorworks i draw a box with a fill in it (solid fill so not a hatch or pattern) only the outline box appears in sketchup (ie just 4 lines - it doesnt behave like polyline or polygon)
if i draw a box, fill it and then remove to external line (so just the fill remains) the fill becomes visiable in sketchup as i want. but doing it this way only allows for simple fills to work (no more than 4 corners)
its really annoyiing and means that i might have to spend a day or two drawing all these buildings again in sketchup....
thanks for the replies so far guys
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Sketchup does not import hatch. Only boundaries if they are drawn with lines and no matter what lines.
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I did a quick test from VW 12.5 PC with a filled polygon, polyline and rectangle exported as DWG 2004/2005/2006 with "Top Plan" view with all "2D fills and Files" check boxes checked and VW file units set to "Feet/Inches", imported into Sketchup 6 - units inches and all came in OK.
As you are working on a city map, I suspect the world origin may be a long way from the centroid of your graphics which may be causing a problem. Also make sure the units match between the export from VW and import to SU (which you probabaly have checked)
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cheers bill. very helpful.. ill check again
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