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    anuradha_vellineni
    last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 06:42

    I am facing problems creating 3d overlayered on top of layers imported from autocad .I am creating 3d on new layers ,not even on autocad layers. Where am i going wrong ?Any help ?

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      remus
      last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 06:52

      any more details as to what your problem is? its quite hard to offer help unless your a little bit more specific aobut what is going wrong.

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        anuradha_vellineni
        last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 07:50

        when i draw with a pencil tool ,it automatically snaps to lines of imported autocad layers.Hence, I am not able to draw accurately .

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          Gaieus
          last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 07:55

          You can turn the visibility of layers off thus preventing inference.

          Gai...

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            dylan
            last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 08:08

            May be worth you taking a look at this thread:

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              anuradha_vellineni
              last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 09:37

              I didn't want to turn off the layers, i want them as reference to draw on top of them.

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                Gaieus
                last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 09:40

                Sure but you most probably do not need all layers to be turned on at the same time. Just leave those on which you need for the reference at that stage of your work.

                Gai...

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                  anuradha_vellineni
                  last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 12:13

                  @unknownuser said:

                  May be worth you taking a look at this thread:

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                  the link was useful,but it still had image as background , while i actually wanted to start with autocad dwg as a base file.

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                    bcoleman001
                    last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 16:15

                    What about turning all the layers on and then selecting all the lines and moving them in the negative "Z axis" direction a ways so that your lines will directly above your reference lines?

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                      tomsdesk
                      last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 16:53

                      Sadly, there is no way to turn off inferencing in SU...you may need to export a jpeg of your autocad layer, insert that back into your model and scale to match, then move it to another layer so you can switch back and forth while drawing.

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                        Jean Lemire
                        last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 18:04

                        Hi folks.

                        Keep in mind that layers dont work the same in SU as they do in AutoCAD.

                        In SU, layers are mostly used to control the visibility of objects.

                        To isolate geometries in SU, use groups or components.

                        Just ideas.

                        Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.

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                          pmiller
                          last edited by 25 Jan 2008, 19:30

                          Further to Jean's advice, make use of SU's "hide rest of model" feature when you are editing a group. Make a keyboard shortcut for it as well, then you can instantly turn it on or off when you are inferencing with background entities.

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