Hatches/surfaces from AutoCAD-dwg doesnt show in Sketchup.
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Is there a way to import dwg-drawings in to Sketchup that include hatches/surfaces?
Thanks
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Not as hatches.
You can explode the hatch in AutoCAD and it will then Import as lines into SketchUp but not as a hatch. -
Do you know if there is a way to get the surfaces in to sketchup? I tried with AutoCAD surfaces instead of hatches but it didnt work either. I just get the boundary lines.
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if you explode a hatch in autocad it should come into sketchup as vectored linework. I know of no other way to get a hatch into sketchup.
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If you only need the face and not the pattern, you can convert the hatches to regions and sketchup should import them as faces.
They come in triangulated but you can use clean tools to merge them. -
Thanks for your help! How do i convert the hatches to regions?
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enter "region" or use the toolbar button. Then select the hatch object you like to convert.
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hmm it doesnt work? "0 Regions created."
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enter "Region" - enter. Select Hatch - enter?
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ah, ok... it looks like it doesn't work with overlapping lines. You need a closed boundary.
So you would have to draw some polylines using "_boundary" first and then convert them to regions. And one other thing... regions can not have "holes". If there are openings/islands in the hatch they will produce a separate region and you will have to combine the two groups in sketchup...
So maybe it's faster to draw the faces directly in sketchup...
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ahh... now i see that you can produce a boundary as region using the "edit hatch" command - then you will get one object with holes that gets imported as one group in sketchup.
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