Using cad facades for sketch up

architectfkh

hi dear friends
I am drawing a single storey building
I draw all facades in cad and exported to sketch up.

I have 2 questions

for drawing the roofs I draw the section for each separately draw them separately and tried to joint them isn't there a better way?
what is the best way to use the cad facades in sketch up. thank you very much ^_^

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Krisidious

I could have sworn I answered this post...

pbacot

I know, you did.

pbacot

Hi,

Looking at your model, there are many diagonal lines on your house walls, do you want these? If not I'd erase those and other extraneous edges first.

A faster advanced way would be ThomThoms "Cleanup" plugin. However you need to learn how to use that and be careful. Protect your coplanar edges that you DO want to keep. Run the plugin on a copy of the file after saving it.

You can use Context menu /"Intersect Faces" to trim those end walls sticking up.

No, that's not the best way to do that sort of roof, for as you found out, joining them afterwards isn't always going to work. For some reason you aren't getting a single face from putting those two groups together. Try drawing the extension of the lower ridge inside the higher roof group, extending to the left from that larger face. You can also look at "Instant Roof" or other roof plugins, but this is a simple roof, which you already have a start on.

You have window components, I would consider going into the component and modeling the window into a 3d object. Or model a new component, save it to a component libray and reload the old component with that. You can make it a "cut opening" component. I tried reloading them with a cut-opening component and it worked. You may have to explode them once after reloading(which doesn't make sense but it worked for me), then click on the face of wall inside the window to erase it.

I don't use the imported /translated ACAD geometry in my house drawings anymore. I always draw over these inside SU. I had too many problems with the ACAD edges in the end. Maybe that's just a personal issue. Do what works.

Other idea: group the walls like you did the roof. Keep it simple and clean. For example the wall group could have just the faces that represent the main exterior wall surfaces and elements in the wall like windows(not the cornice, foundation walls, porches etc.)

Good luck,

Peter

Krisidious

Thanks... Glad to know I'm not crazy...

pbacot

The proof is that simple?

Krisidious

I'm pretty easy to please...