Trouble getting an imported dwg in Sketchup
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Hey guys,
I'm having trouble importing a CAD .dwg into sketchup and having the drawing be on the same plane as a whole. Whenever I import the .dwg there are 2 different parts scattering vertically in 2 different places on the z axis. Whenever I made changes to the z-axis in autocad and then imported it into sketchup I still had problems. I have uploaded a JPEG for reference.
What should I do? Thanks
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That CAD file is pure pants.
Can you [or the original creator] 'flatten' the lines in CAD before trying to import into a SKP [it's built-into AutoCAD-Express-tools].
There also some 'flatten' tools available within Sketchup if that's not possible...
Do a Search for recent posts [with links] about processing CAD info so it's flattened... and then it might possibly be useful to you etc... -
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@krisidious said:
@unknownuser said:
is pure pants.
I don't know what that means but it's cracking me up...
In the UK pants = underpants (if you saw the state of some of my "shreddies", you'd get why it is such a derogatory term!). Don't remember anyone ever using "pants" in this sense when I was a kid - it seems to have taken over from the old favourite "knickers!".
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[off:38zsxuy5]:enlight: In the UK something that is 'pants' is considered to be 'rubbish'.
As was said, it's from [under]pants - remember that our 'pants' are never 'trousers'.While we are at it...
Our trousers are held up with 'braces', because 'suspenders' only hold up women's sticking-tops.
Our car has a 'bonnet', because a 'hood' is on an anorak.
Our car has a 'boot', because an elephant has a 'trunk', or a 'trunk' is a very big suitcase.
We use a 'lift' to get to the upper floors of a building, because an 'elevator' is used to carry sacks, bales etc up onto a farmer's 'stack': we'd never put 'lifts' in our shoes as they'd never fit!
We enter a building on the 'ground floor' and use the lift to go up to the 'first floor'; a building that is entered on the 'first floor' is either on stilts or accessed off a bridge [or it's sunk into soft ground and we'd be wary of entering it anyway].
We walk along the 'pavement', and we drive on the 'carriageway', 'highway' or 'road'; we also call the surface we walk on the 'path' or 'footpath', but 'sidewalk' is not 'English': we would never drive along the 'pavement'.
The season that starts in September is our 'autumn', it's not the 'fall' [although admittedly Shakespeare called it that, and it does describe what happens to the leaves!]
If we drink too much beer we might be 'pissed'; but if we are upset about something we are 'pissed off'.
If a stage show 'goes down a bomb' it has succeeded - but if it 'bombs' it fails miserable - because it was probably 'pants'.
We join two wires together with molten metal called 'solder' - pronounced "sold'h" - never "sodder"...[Incidentally, a 'sod' is a lump of earth - usually grassy - but more commonly it's short for 'sodomite', but in the UK it is only a mild[ish] insult when used like "what a silly sod!", or somewhat stronger as "sod you!"; so our 'sodder' [uncommon] or 'sod' [very common] would be someone who 'sods' [i.e. commits an act of 'sodomy']... which we don't seem to take very seriously - but you do not say it to your grandmother/teacher/preacher... Similarly our 'bugger' is a mild[ish] insult ["you silly bugger!"], or when you miss the last train you say 'bugger!' - but you would not say it to your grandmother/teacher/preacher - AND it has nothing to do with being annoying [US/UK: 'it's bugging me...'], although one has to admit that the act of 'buggery' [from whence its UK usage comes] might upset many of your less intimate acquaintances
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Our 'faggots' are savory meatballs - a regional delicacy [or somewhat more archaically 'bundles of sticks']; so it's OK for us to say that we 'love faggots' without worrying about coming out of any 'closet'***; but its US alternative meaning is now known too.
Our 'fag' is always a cigarette - so if 'we'd love a fag' - we just want a smoke !
***We hang clothes in a 'wardrobe' - the 'closet' is where the WC pan is located, or the pan itself - although these days we understand 'closet=wardrobe' but use 'wardrobe' usually.
We 'go to' the 'toilet' [common] or 'lavatory' [posher] to urinate or defecate: if we were to ask someone where the 'bathroom' is they'll expect that we wanted a bath - indeed a 'bathroom' does not have to contain a WC, although most do !
When we have a choice of another thing, it's an called an 'alternative'; the word 'alternate' means to change from one thing to another and back again, in a cycle - as in 'alternating-current' - it's not a noun, it's a verb !
Luckily in the UK we watch a lot of US TV shows and films, so we can understand many of the nuances, that are often lost in the other direction... [/off:38zsxuy5] -
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