SU 7.1 - Free version - IMPORT DFX/DWG ???

thomthom

Or just stick to v7.0 and do not bother with v7.1 et-al?

The performance improvements in SU7.1 is worth the extra clicks to install the DWG importer plugin.

Gaieus

And the plugin is exactly the same importer there is in the Pro version (as I was told when asked if I should install for testing reasons when it was not released yet) so you don't even have to be afraid of any extra bugs it could involve.

AndrewS

@gaieus said:

And the plugin is exactly the same importer there is in the Pro version (as I was told when asked if I should install for testing reasons when it was not released yet) so you don't even have to be afraid of any extra bugs it could involve.

For the sake of eliminating confusion, I can confirm this.

When you use the DWG/DXF importer installer that we're distributing, it enables the use of exactly the same importer as is available in 7.1 Pro. Also, aside from any improvements and modifications that were made in the 7.1 development process, that plugin is the same as what was provided in 7.0; it's not like it's a completely new/redesigned plugin or anything.

Andrew

outland86

hello is thee any reason why the dxf exporter makes the size of the file that has been imported and worked on scale up by a couple hundred thousanths of an inch ?

is this a fault in the exporter ?

Frederik

Have you remembered to set the scale in the Import options...??

outland86

yes it works fine for the import but when you export the DXF and bring it in to another cad application it is always larger by about 200 thou
very annoying.

this seems to happen no matter what the export options are set to and is the same over several external cad applications

TIG

@outland86 said:

yes it works fine for the import but when you export the DXF and bring it in to another cad application it is always larger by about 200 thou
very annoying.
this seems to happen no matter what the export options are set to and is the same over several external cad applications

200/1000 - 1/5" ! which might not be much in a big building but is a lot in a piece of furniture...
Can we have a zipped/small problem skp and dxf to see it first hand...

arjunmax09

Since the discussion is about cad import into SketchUp.. i'd like to ask a question about cad export from SketchUp Pro... on exportin' a model from SketchUp [export 2D graphic option] that has different layers... the layers lose their properties in AutoCAD... i.e. to say... the whole model is in one or two layers... For example if i've made layers in SketchUp for furniture, walls, windows, fixtures, etc... the same doesn't happen in AutoCAD on the model export... the whole cad ... I have to redo the layer thing in AutoCAD .. is there a way to solve this problem??

joppermann

I know this may seem like a silly question but what file do I put this in? Plugins?

I can't seem to figure out where it should go or how to import a dwg file. I assumed it would be in the import selection. Help!

Thank you

Chris Fullmer

Its actually an installer. So double click on it to begin installing it (.msi stands for MicroSoftInstaller). So run it and it wil install itself where it belongs.

Chris

joppermann

Aha! Thank you Chris. I appreciate it.