{REQUEST} Import Vectorworks 3D geometry to SU !!!
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Greetings.
It would be amazing to have a ruby that just opened up and imported 3D vwx drawings. That would be so fine ... I think this issue has been posted about very often in various forums, but I thought it would be worth the risk of a repeat posting. Hope no one minds!
Here is the problem:
For some time now it has been very easy to get SU geometry into VW. How about going the other way? For some reason there has been extensive development from Nemetschek for getting things into VW but not out. There have been some posts about this problem in the past on various forums but it is hard to have any overview on the problem. I'd love to hear others experiences and advice on how to approach this issue.
At the moment, when working to get 3D geometry out of Vectorworks and into SU:
- .3ds is a catastrophe, lots of triangulation;
- .dxf/.dwg is not dependable, (many faces are missing, etc.)
- on a VW2010 thread over at pushpullbar, it was suggested to goto .kmz via google earth and then hack out the kml file ... But I couldn't figure that out with google earth. sigh.
What to do?
Any and all thoughts much appreciated.
Note I have posted on this topic as well at vectorworks forum:
http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=134197#Post134197
and at pushpullbar:
best to all,
thinkbuild
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@thinkbuild said:
- on a VW2010 thread over at pushpullbar, it was suggested to goto .kmz via google earth and then hack out the kml file ... But I couldn't figure that out with google earth. sigh.
Sketchup 7.1+ has built-in Import directly from .kmz and .dae (Collada)
Menu: File > Import...
Change file type to (.kmz,.dae) and choose the file.
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