Sticky situation
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Is there anyway when placing an imported dwg file over a base to make all of the dwg wall lines stick to the base so that they can be pulled up to the desired wall height in the 3-d model? I typically end up with them either not attaching, or having everything in the plan (dwg) pull up instead of just individual items. It is very time consuming to have to try to redraw each wall (item) to get them to act independently of everything else. Any ideas or quick proceedures for this?
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daveg
the only way to do this reliably is to separate the walls from the rest of the dwg
this is best done before you bring the file into sketchup, either by blocking the walls (which should import as a block into sketchup) or wblocking the walls into a seperate drawing and importing that drawing
i don't know of any ruby scripts which can import individual layers, so if you don't have acad you can workaround by switching off all layers apart from the walls layer and then making them into a group
if they are not on a different layer, there is not much else you can do
..miles -
Have a look at Thom's flatten and extrude plugin. If you separate what should be push-pulled together into groups/components, it will create very nice and quick results from your imports (that's actually what he wrote it for):
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=23491
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