Mesh to Solids
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Hello,
it's a lot of time that I follow this forum but this is my first post!
A solution could be Viacad 3D (cheaper brother of Shark). With v.8 you can import sketchUp model (v7) with the option "Facets to NURBs".
Imported model became a collection of nurbs surfaces (planar surfaces - usually grouped if in sketchUp there were groups or components).
You can export as iges or step like surfaces or, if you need solids, you can "stich" to solid surfaces in Viacad and then export to step.
Hope this help,
giovanni -
Does the free trial version have that option? Or do I need to buy it first?
Darn, according to the Help file, Shark FX does not currently support SketchUP 8.
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@galvax said:
Shark FX does not currently support SketchUP 8.
you can save a copy as Sketchup 7.
I just emailed support and asked if I could test the import/export features and they sent me a fully functioning [time limited] key.
john
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@driven said:
@galvax said:
Shark FX does not currently support SketchUP 8.
you can save a copy as Sketchup 7.
I just emailed support and asked if I could test the import/export features and they sent me a fully functioning [time limited] key.
john
Did anything come of this?
I thought there was a program that worked with sketchup (developed with or partnered with) that could import skp files and convert them to nurbs. I swear I recall it was featured in a newsletter or some sort of announcement. I've searched all over trying to find it again. Anyone recall the program's name?
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@wheeljack said:
I thought there was a program that worked with sketchup (developed with or partnered with) that could import skp files and convert them to nurbs. I swear I recall it was featured in a newsletter or some sort of announcement. I've searched all over trying to find it again. Anyone recall the program's name?
Spaceclaim...here's a writeup: http://solidsmack.com/cad/spaceclaim-launches-spaceclaim-engineer-2012/
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@d12dozr said:
@wheeljack said:
I thought there was a program that worked with sketchup (developed with or partnered with) that could import skp files and convert them to nurbs. I swear I recall it was featured in a newsletter or some sort of announcement. I've searched all over trying to find it again. Anyone recall the program's name?
Spaceclaim...here's a writeup: http://solidsmack.com/cad/spaceclaim-launches-spaceclaim-engineer-2012/
thank you
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You can export an Obj file from SketchUp, then import that into AutoCAD 2012/2013/2014 with a Obj importer for AutoCAD from http://www.CodeDog.com.au or in the Autodesk apps store.
Then if AutoCAD cannot convert the object to a Solid use "Polyhedral Mesh to Solid" to convert it to a solid. "Polyhedral Mesh to Solid" is also from CodeDog. This should give you proper solids not blocks.
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I'm also looking to convert a SketchUp file to a solid. (I think currently it's a wireframe, but for mold design / quoting apparently it needs to be a 3D solid model.)
Is there any way of doing this without expensive software? (with free/open source plug-ins?)
I've found ways to convert the SketchUp into STEP, IGES, STL, Parasolid, and had someone else convert it to .SLDPRT in SolidWorks; but apparently that's all still wireframe.
I looked at SUSolid (http://www.susolid.com/) , but I'm not sure if it will do what I want, and I don't want to spend the money on it in case it doesn't.
I also looked at Mesh to Solid from Sycode (http://www.sycode.com/products/mesh_to_solid/)- has anyone used this? It's $20 for 7 days; if it works well, that's not bad; but it might be a total waste if it doesn't work well. (And with several revisions possible over the course of a month or two, that gets pricey as well.)
Any suggestions? I'd like to convert my SketchUp design into a solid 3D ACIS (.sat) model, that I can then convert to .STEP, .IGES, etc. with CAD Exchanger. (which seems to work quite nicely)
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ThomThom got the solid inspector but what on earth is a rbz file? why didn't you just Zip it? Now I have download an app (which I am not going to do because it will screw up all my Zip settings as all the other unzip apps have).
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@derekbr0wn said:
ThomThom got the solid inspector but what on earth is a rbz file? why didn't you just Zip it? Now I have download an app (which I am not going to do because it will screw up all my Zip settings as all the other unzip apps have).
RBZ files is the filetype used to package SketchUp extensions since SketchUp 8M2.
You use SketchUp itself to install it:
https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/38583Either use Extension Warehouse (Window > Extension Warehouse) or get SketchUcation's PluginStore extension.
Or, download the RBZ and got to Window > Preferences > Extensions > Install Extensions.
You won't find many extensions distributed as plain ZIPs or RBs any more. Just let SU handle the installation.
If you ever need to open the RBZ as a ZIP, you can just rename it - but there's really no need to do this unless you are installing to a very old SU version.
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