Importing CAD Files. . .
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Hi all. I'm looking for some help on importing CAD files. Can the CAD file be imported at a given elevation? Can the CAD file be imported as a single entity or only multiple lines? I have a multi-story building that I drew in AutoCAD and want to import my floor plans into Sketch up, but I can't figure out how to lay each floor at the right level and I'm not sure I want it to be 1000 individual lines. Thanks for your help.
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@terribletim said:
Hi all. I'm looking for some help on importing CAD files. Can the CAD file be imported at a given elevation?
No, it comes in with the same Z coordinates that are inside it
@unknownuser said:
Can the CAD file be imported as a single entity or only multiple lines?
If your file has any geometry in it(one edge is enough)the import will be grouped, if your file is absolutely empty, the import will be a bunch of ungrouped lines
@unknownuser said:
I have a multi-story building that I drew in AutoCAD and want to import my floor plans into Sketch up, but I can't figure out how to lay each floor at the right level and I'm not sure I want it to be 1000 individual lines. Thanks for your help.
You should import into a non-empty file, and if the individual floors are at z=0, you must move the groups up tp their respective elevations.
Note that this is one of the rare cases where the "preserve drawing origin" import setting makes sense, provided that the origin isn't somewhere in outer space (in SU terms, more than a mile or two from the plan). Otherwise SU will center the individual imports at the SU origin, meaning that if the plans are not exactly the same shape, they will lose their alignment.Anssi
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As has been said. If it's an empty SKP then draw a temporary line so that each of the CAD files imports as a component containing the geometry [with its original CAD name] - without that temporary line an empty SKP will get the first imported CAD file's geometry put directly into the Model without it being put into a component 'wrapper').
Then you can Import the files as components, selecting to preserve their origin etc in the Options dialog. They should now all come into SUp at their original elevations and insertion-points. Note that if they are 'miles' from the SUp origin you might need to 'select-all' and relocate them nearer to [0,0,0] or you'll get visual weirdity - random clipping etc...
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