DWG Import Problem
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I've been given a topo survey file by a surveyor (see attached) and it looks fine in CAD software but after importing it into Sketchup it displays as a geometric pattern (see attached).
I was hoping to be working on it today but I can't get it to import correctly. I've tried exploding it and also running it through Doublecad, which is usually quite good at sorting problematic files by exploding blocks etc.
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix it?
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Try changing the import option to Meters.
There is an option button on the import dialog.
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If I import the DWG with the Options' Units set at mm, without preserving the origin, then it works.
The 'grid' dimensions in both files measure the same.
At m it fails as much of it is 1000x too big - you just get a few smaller bits - i.e. 1m dims become 1km 10m become 10km etc, so something's got to give !
Obviously the text doesn't import as SketchUp only includes geometry.Check your Options and try again...
I've attached a v2015 SKP, but please retry yourself to see the issue
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It was already in metres, however you got me thinking and I tried it in mm and it has sorted it! Thanks very much.
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Thanks also to TIG for the reply, you beat me to it!
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I guess it depends on how the options were last set.
Mine was in inches and changing to Meters fixed it.
Tigs was probably in Meters and the change to mm fixed it.
So basicaly the change fixed things. -
In the UK old-joe-public still thinks in feet-and-inches, young-joe-public uses cm, while architects/engineers/builders/etc work in mm, and estimators/surveyors/etc work in m !
So I had expected the survey to be drawn in m, but when it failed I then opened it in CAD and checked a grid dim - which was 50000, so it was a surveyor's 50m grid but drawn in mm.
A DWG dims are unit independent - just numbers.
When that was imported using mm it comes into the SKP at the right size, but if m is erroneously used, then each grid-line is then 50km long - so the whole plan was the size of a large county, rather than a building-plot ! -
HI! i was wondering if someone here can make me a big favor. Need to import this dwg to sketchup, but i don't have the Pro. If you open it, you'll see 2 equal drawings in 2d as a block and one exploded in 3D. I need just one of them; if its in 3D better, but if it's not possible i can work with the 2D
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@nina792 said:
HI! i was wondering if someone here can make me a big favor. Need to import this dwg to sketchup, but i don't have the Pro. If you open it, you'll see 2 equal drawings in 2d as a block and one exploded in 3D. I need just one of them; if its in 3D better, but if it's not possible i can work with the 2D
See my post to you in another topic of the same nature.
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