Autotrace CAD Import to generate faces?
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Hello,
Being my first post I'll start by saying that I have been a lurker of the forum for a quite some time now. Sketchucation is an excellent resource! I currently in the process of using the CAD drawings of an existing building in order to build a detailed 3D model and illustrate some of of the interior changes proposed. I am familiar with prepping and importing CAD drawings into Sketchup but often find myself tracing over existing lines to generate the needed faces to push/pull.
Is there a plugin that takes an imported CAD drawing and traces over all the lines in order to generate faces? I have googled and searched this forum and found nothing so far. Maybe I am phrasing it the wrong way because I can't be the only person who has wondered about this.
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There are several 'MakeFaces' tools to add faces to imported CAD line-sets.
If the CAD file is poorly executed you need to heal tiny gaps where ends don't quite meet etc - again there are several tools [e.g. TT's EdgeTools...]
Also if the lines aren't 'flat' they need to be 'flattened' - again there're several tools to do this...
You need to assemble a set of tools to tidy gaps, flaten, remove unwanted vertices, and add faces etc... They are out there in the Plugins Index...
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