DWG import problem

Repoman

Hi everyone,

Great forum- superb source of SU wisdom!!

I'm stumped with this, have imported a .dwg
into SU8 & all entities are lined up in a single row
(screen cap attached). Any advice on what's causing this
& how to correct it?

Cheers,

Paul.

SU Import problem.png

TIG

Weird.
I think there's something wrong with the DWG...
If you have AutoCAD then open the DWG and 'purge' it, then 'audit' it, fixing issues, save it and retry the import into Sketchup.
It it's still flaky try using recover in AutoCAD, save it and retry the import into Sketchup.
What settings have you chosen in the separate options dialog accessed from the Sketchup DWG importer's main dialog ?
If all else fails repair the Sketchup Pro installation.
If that fails reinstall Sketchup Pro completely...
Weird...

Repoman

Hi Tig,

tried purge & audit, still comes out the same.
Import options merge coplanar & orient faces ticked,
scale metres & preserve drawing origin.

Seems to be Autocad related.

Totally stumped at the moment!

TIG

Try importing it without the CAD origin preserved.
Also try saving a copy of the DWG in AutoCAD as a very early version - even a r12 DXF - and try importing that. to see if there's some useless newer version thing in the file breaking its import, saving as an earlier version will still include all of the data that Sketchup needs...

Repoman

Hi TIG,

Have tried without preserving origin, also saved as 2000 version & still no luck.
When I open Autocad I get the following message about foreign file format.

When the drawing has imported, the import results are shown below.

I'm wondering if it is because the drawing has been produced in another package
and saved in dwg format?

Thanks for your input- I'm sure there must be an answer!!!

Regards,

Paul.

foreign file.png