[Plugin] Convert DWG Layer Names to Materials

ek12

I use AutoCAD to generate most of my architectural model information, then do some tweaking, or design refinements in SketchUP, export images and do some post-production render in Photoshop. Since I have been doing this over 30 years (straight AutoCAD in early years) I have always controlled my model and materials by layer as that is how I work/think in ACAD.

I have a lot of models with materials applied by layer and would like to simply convert the model to have the same materials applied/painted to the same surfaces to render with SU, or plug in rendering software. Anybody know of a quick solution? Thanks. EK

Above is my original post in the materials section. I tried to use the 'convert_materials_to_layer_names.rb' and it simply made a lot of materials with the layer names, but the original materials/textures assigned to those layers were replaced by random colors without textures. Then I tried 'layers_materials.rbs' which has a lot more options, which looked like it should do the trick. But when I run the "paint faces from layers" option, it simply states: "parsed 8,109 faces, 0 changed, 8,109 inchanged" & I get the same result from all models I tried, it just reports different number of faces parsed. Using the "create materials from layers" option acts similar to the first plugin, and simply makes new materials, but doesn't assign the material properties from my layers in my 'color by layer' model to the faces. It looks like you guys are getting this to work. What am I doing wrong?

Gabbiano

A GREAT plugin! It saved me hours of work.
Thanks a thousand times, Al!

function

Can someone post a mirror for dbur's script? This would be very handy right now!

TIG

@function said:

Can someone post a mirror for dbur's script? This would be very handy right now!
What is wrong with the link which Didier gave a little earlier in this thread ? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=323280#p323280

function

are the download links working for you?
http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/download.php?file=Layers_materials.zip

the ruby depot downloads haven't been working for me recently

TIG

They must have a problem with their servers ?

Does anyone have a copy they could send to 'function' by PM ?

function

the depot is back online

gparadis

Hey guys,
Quickly edited this plugin to also convert the layer colors, instead of assigning a random color per material.

Very useful ! Thanks

Update to also convert the layer color.

JGA

just wanted to thank Didier Bur for creating a great plugin, Al Hart for keeping it updated & gparadis for the finishing touch of recreating the layer colour on the material.
The only thing missing is that a texture assigned to a layer colour is not carried over, but that's a minor quibble.

Didier's site http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld seems to be down at the moment, by the way.

juju

@jga said:

Didier's site http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld seems to be down at the moment, by the way.

Didier announced that he will no longer teach SketchUp nor will he develop new extensions or maintain any of his existing extensions. That's probably why his site is down then.

JGA

@juju said:

Didier announced that he will no longer teach SketchUp nor will he develop new extensions or maintain any of his existing extensions. That's probably why his site is down then.

I'm not surprised, Trimble seem to be out of touch with SketchUP's core customers.
Didiers site & plugins were a revelation when I started out with SketchUP as a way to increase my productivity with the tool. It was a great service to the community.