Exporting to DWG, SketchUp crashes only on one view
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Some people with good memories might remember a topic from a few months back dealing with other issues when exporting to DWGs, started by me...so some might think I'm a masochist for sticking with this workflow. But I do 3D work so sporadically, I don't have the time or initiative at the moment to learn Rhino or another more suitable package at the moment. So I suffer through these little headaches.
So my latest problem is I've finished building my objects in SketchUp and I'm exporting it to DWGs. At first, I copied my object and rotated the copies so I could have five views(all sides and top) in one scene and export it at once. But it hung up, at first I thought because there were too many faces and my computer was getting bogged down. So I decided to export each view as it's own DWG and put them together in AutoCAD, no big deal. I go through each view and they are exported very quickly...until I get to the left side where SketchUp hangs up and eventually crashes.
I don't understand what I could be doing which would cause a hang up only in a single view. There are no errors in the model. I'm using the same components throughout, stuff that is seen in all other views. And still, I've even tried deleting things that might possibly only be seen in this view, trying to narrow down what might be the culprit, with no success. I've tried exploding everything as fully as possible. I've copied it into a new SketchUp file. Nothing seems to matter, same exact results.
Is there any rhyme or reason to what might make it splat on DWG exporting? A checklist of sorts that I could try going down to zero in on my problem?
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are you clicking anything while exporting? and I mean anything any where on any program? if so... don't. SU doesn't like you using other software while it's thinking..
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@krisidious said:
are you clicking anything while exporting? and I mean anything any where on any program? if so... don't. SU doesn't like you using other software while it's thinking..
I may have a couple times, during successful exports and this problematic one. But on many attempts, I intentionally didn't and let it sit peacefully doing it's thing. Same results.
At least I eventually figured out my problem piece/group. It was part of a component that was in all other views and causing no problems so I didn't think to try deleting it earlier. But I figured out what was causing the hang up, deleted it and redrew it. Exported fine.
So found a solution somewhat, the seemingly arbitrary nature of the crash is still irksome though.
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be interested to know what caused that. could you upload that group? do you still have it? it may be in an autosave file.
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@krisidious said:
be interested to know what caused that. could you upload that group? do you still have it? it may be in an autosave file.
Sure, since it was a simple object to redraw and replace, I decided to export the drawing I needed and closed without saving. So I could investigate it further. I've saved a new file with just this component, tried exporting various views and ran into the same issues, everything went smoothly, exporting in just a second, except the same view. I've attached it, you can see the two scenes...on the fixed scene, after you just delete the group of hex bolt heads and export, it goes fine.
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