Importing Acad Survey levels
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Hi, I have a 2D drawing with from a surveyor with the datum levels in text on the side of the pathways. Is it possible to import these to SU intelligently, ie read the value, then place at the correct height/elevation in SU?
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You might have to do it in a two stage process, importing the line work first with SU, and then using ImportDXFtext plugin from TIG http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23002 - make sure the read the plugin's page. I do not know if the plugin will set your text at height though.
Are you able to open the dwg yourself so you can clean it? Also what Autocad version is the dwg in? Things are often easier if the file can be saved to an earlier acad version, sometimes even 2000.
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Thanks for the feed back unearthed, I tried the dxf import and it worked great but as expected it did not add any elevation/height info - maybe I can get a lisp routine to do that?
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This does not have much to do with SketchUp, per se...
... BUT I have a lisp that can be used in AutoCAD with a 2d CAD DWG containing spot-levels as 'text', which converts them in to 3d pints based on their text 'values'.
Then you can import those points into a SKP as a 'points-cloud'.
Then you can use a Ruby to process those points into a SKP 3d mesh......PM me and I can given your more guidance...
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ditch the autocad and use an image... follow this plugins tutorials.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=52039
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Thanks TIG for the feedback - I eventually used a lisp routine to read the text and place it at the correct elevation, then I used another lisp to place a point at the text insertion followed by your point triangulation routine in SU and all done! Could be simpler if the surveyor just used 3d from the word go...
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