Thanx Chris,

good advices. You were right, it was computing, I tried to cut the contours to make it quite small so that i can see it is actually working. Well, it took a minute, BUT....it is flat...i expected SU to preserve the height info. I see there are plugins for .shp, but i have only free SU version...so back to experiments

Thanx for a quick reply,
yeah, could take a look at the forums before, gonna do it now and experiment
Ailig

Hi all,
I am pretty new here, really like it here and have my first question

Does anybody have any experience with CAD files imported in SU? I mean i have my contour shape file, i exported it to cad file (both dxf and dwg) and then import it in SU. So far so good, i can see my contours. Now...how i create 3d terrain out of this? I tried to use -from contours- function, but SU immediately crashes not even sure this is the right way to do it. Any ideas?
Ailig

Exactly, thats what i am talking about. Why make it complicated and it is crashing (as post above states), when you can import just the terrain and let the ecosystem work for you. You can have quite a complex ecosystem with several different trees, grasses at different altitude, slope value...etc....

Hi,
well, i know quite a lot of people complaining about crashes in Vue, but anyway, if i understand your post correctly, why to change the dummies? Why not to use the Vue trees directly using excellent Vue ecosystem? You can spray them on terrain or use editor.
Not sure thats what you wanted to hear Anyway, let me know
Ailig