Control number of facets on imported circles?
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I work in AutoCAD and import into SketchUp. I have a procedure that works well and I go back and forth between the two applications with ease. Except for circles.
Question - is there any way to control the number of facets that SketchUp breaks a circle into? Generally I put a center cross at all circle centers in AutoCAD and then redraw them in SketchUp at a higher number of facets than SketchUp's default which is 24. Is there a control to tell SketchUp to import all circles at 48 rather than 24? -
No, as far as I know. Could you, however, explode those circles in cad (or turn them into some other entity like polyline)? Then SU would not regard them as circles and would import as they are.
I know this can be laborious if you have a lot of them...
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Is it easier to redraw than just changing the number of sides in the entity window?
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CAD Arcs and Circles always import into a SKP with a fixed number of segments.
If they form part of a 3d object it can't be changed.
If it's simple 2d then the SKP's Entity Info can be used with a selected Arc/Circle to change the segment count.
This is OK if you have one or two to do, but a pain in the proverbial if there are dozens...
That's why I invented 'changearcsegments' http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=158903#p158903
The default script is run from the Ruby Console, but if you read the last few posts in the thread there's code to add at the end of the script to make a menu item that uses a simple dialog too... -
Seems I am beginning to lose track of all the plugins posted here.
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