Exporting DWG to Sketchup

[skinman]

I imported a DWG into sketchup. A bunch of contour lines. it came into sketchup as segmented individual lines rather than composed lines. Any idea how to avoid this?

[Gaieus]

Hi Joe again,

There is everything segmented in SU -there are no "real" curves; everything is made upof segments.

[skinman]

So even if i am exporting full lines from CAD, they will import into SU as hundreds of tiny lines which make up the entire line?

[Gaieus]

Not the straight ones - just curves. If these are topo contour lines, you may be interested in SimplifyContours.rb downloadable at the bottom here.

[skinman]

Gaieus, more like SketchUp Genius. That plug in is perfect for what i am doing.

[Gaieus]

Yup - that's what it was written for I guess...