Bring down the Insanity
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Hi guys.
More and more these days i get autocad files from my clients and when I import that into sketchup, and pan...it jumps around like a disco ball. Did anyone experience this before, its driving me insane. If anyone has a solotion, please help.
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Hi Jacques,
Your imported model is kilometres away from the SU origin (1,3 in one direction and 95,something in the other). This causes the view being weird.
When importing the file, open the Options dialog (bottom right of the import dialog) and uncheck "Preserve drawing origin".
Now SU will import the file to its own origin (or wherever you place it) and you'll be able to work on it.
If the output file needs to preserve these origins, let me know and I will suggest a workaround.
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thank you, will give that a shot..
if so i come a day on this where it needs the origin, what do one do then? Then i have both options as a solution. Thank you very much.. -
You make a component of the imported geometry then right click > Save as... and work on the separate file. At the end, after saving that file you can reload the component and no matter how twisted it looks on screen (this is just an OpenGL displayissue), you have the ready model in place of the original one.
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thank you very much, i really apreciate your help and knowledge.
Keep well
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Occasionally you might also get AutoCAD files where the blocks has insertion points far off, which makes the components jitter when imported. For that I made a plugin to reset the insertion points: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30508
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That's true.
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@Gaieus:
Quoting you below-
"At the end, after saving that file you can reload the component and no matter how twisted it looks on screen (this is just an OpenGL display issue), you have the ready model in place of the original one."I ponder the mindset that it takes to trudge through what you see on the screen. I would have decided that this was a fail, and probably given up.
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Hi,
I used Chris Fullmers Center on Origin and than exploded it once and all was normal.
Charly
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