Freelance Oportunity okayed by Mike Lucey

Eric_Erb

I'll try to explain what I'm doing... I work for a small company (3 employees so far) that designs steel buildings (warehouses,factories,etc.) we have a CAD program which is AutoCAD at its core. So, here's my mission...

I want to take the dxf/dwg from AutoCAD and automatically have it open in Sketchup.
Gruff says he's done this but I can't get it to work http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=22601
This is where it gets more complicated. I need a webdialog that...

a. clients can access and enter their quote number to bring up the model of their building

b. show their building in 3D with default materials
My idea was to automate web exporter, to ftp it to a database, and put it in a frame.I've removed all the prompts from web exporter so that it jumps straight to the process of rotating it and
saving out the jpg files

c. allow the client to choose colors for Walls, Roof, and Trim
I've written a .rb to apply materials based on layer names (layer names are always the same) I also have swatches for the 8 color choices

d. they need to be able to toggle between a frame and skinned view
I've written 2 .rb scripts for this one that turns all the layers on and then the frame layers off. One that turns all the layers on and then turns the skin layers off.

e. when they hit "preview" update the Web Exporter frame

f. when they hit "save colors" update the Web Exporter frame and write a file (.txt for all I care) to a specific location with their choices and quote number.

Anybody up to it?
I should also add that we need to have access to the source code so that we can make changes if needed in the future.

Eric_Erb

Update... section D instead of having the choice of skinned or frame view... just export and display both.

remus

Itd be worth PMing Jim, i think he's looking for work at the moment, and he's certainly qualified to advise you on your project.