Converting .dwg.txt to .skp??
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I am starting a new project and need to use a large cad file (190M), with the extension ".dwg.txt". I tried changing the extension to .dwg but (after an hour of working) SU crashes and gives this error message: "Failed to create dump file (error 183)"
How do I convert .dwg.txt to .skp? Is that a special Autocad extension? Is error 183 because of the extension?
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I expect that to attach a .dwg file, which was disallowed by the method they were using, the sender simply renamed it with a final .txt, which is a common and allowed file type...
Renaming it so it ends with .dwg is the first step to making it useful.
When importing it into SketchUp it should work.
You need to know things like its units etc, and don't keep the CAD origin unless you are sure it's sensibly located.
Your 190Mb DWG is an enormous file !
Has it been properly 'purged', 'fixed' etc by its author before you receive it ?
What ACAD version is it in etc ?
If you also have ACAD [there are also some free CAD apps available that will work], then open a copy of it, and try a purge , repair, etc.
You can also reduce the amount of data that SketchUp has to sift through very considerably - because SketchUp only imports 'geometry': it doesn't import the other things, but it has to look at everything in the file to decide what to do with it - so things that get ignored in the final analysis - like hatching and text - can be deleted from the DWG, before a final purge...
Also if the DWG covers a 'suburb' but you are only interested in a 'couple of blocks', then why not erase the excess geometry in the CAD file - it's unwanted anyway ?
Then the imported data will be optimized and hopefully faster to import-process... -
What he said...
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