Huge Autocad symbols collection!

john2

well the reason I ask is that I already have about 1 gig of autocad 2d stuff. but I'm always looking for electrical symbols and tech symbols.

it has symbols, but the language is a foreign one, so i can't make out. this file i got from my colleague who got this from some other person. so download it, it does have symbols, elctrical or not i don't know. i thought you wd have downloaded such a small file till now.

Chumleyconstruction

Where should I download those files to? And how do I access them in SU Pro? & layout?

TIG

You have to import the DWG into an empty SKP.
Be patient it will be an enormous amount of data ! >71.5Mb !! > 2000 new components !!!
Edit them as desired... [many of them are only placed in 3d and layered inappropriately too].
Tip display Components in the Browser by list - making all of the icons will 'kill' SU !
Then you can save the various new 'components' [aka blocks] out as a collection of SKPs, for later use in all SU projects through the Components Browser.
Bring the ones you want into Layout, explode. rework as desired, and save those into a Scrapbook for use in all LO projects...

pbacot

hmm. I only saw 2d objects. I was surprised that the import created scenes. I haven't seen that before. The scenes did nothing for me. In fact they were all too far out.

Note that the objects are all different scales. You have to decide how to scale them in sets.

First import crashed SU. Second time worked. Often I get a failure on any dwg import, but the second time usually works.

TIG

A DWG imports new Scene-tabs based on the Paperspace['layout'] views that are in the CAD file. The Model-space shows the geometry, like in SU...
So if you don't want them [I suspect you never will!] you can delete those in the DWG, if you have an app to edit it, before doing any imports into SU.
Also I suggest that you remove all of the unwanted layers and put everything on just layer '0' [which becomes 'Layer0' in SU] and if you have the patience 'flatten' all of the inserted CAD blocks to be at Z=0 elevation, and also their contents to be at Z=0 too...
Next find anything that won't get imported [use a filter] and delete it - like images, hatching etc, OR if it's text/mtext decide and if you want it in the SKP components you can explode it to lines in CAD file...
After all of that, unless you need a long rest... now use Purge unused and then Audit the DWG, accepting any changes/fixes...
Finally Save the DWG.
Then do your import of it into an empty SKP !
Sigh...

Dave R

It's too bad they aren't packaged better.

andre51

Thanks John, very handy!

JGA

Is there a ruby or other method to export all components from a model in one go?
I just seem to be able to export one component at a time.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

TIG

If you want to save one component outside then 'save_as' BUT to do everything use the Browser's 'Save as a Collection' pop-out item.
Select a folder and all of the model's components are exported into that folder en mass.

JGA

TIG,
Thanks for the tip. I had been searching for a ruby to do the job