Dan Rathbun, thanks for the info, unfortunately it is not so useful, imagine there are 300 components, and you must be add those entry attributes to the box for each. If only Position and Rotation would be added by default.

I just wish SU would have that transform tool like many other CAD software has

Hi.

Is there a plugin that can see a toolbar with: dimensions / position / scale when selecting on an object? (like this in Blender - see the attachment:

It would be nice to have this thing natively. For a modeler such tool is an absolute need.

PS: the actual "Entity Info" it has so poor information.

@jim said:

@alexdobras said:

where's the exporter now ? :-s

The download link is here, but the plugin is for version 6 and hasn't been maintained for recent versions. t might work with Version 8, or it might not.

http://dl.google.com/sketchup/gsu6/plugins/sketchup6webexporterwen.exe

works fabulous! thanks Jim!

where's the exporter now ? :-s

a very big thanks for the plugin!

thank you !

@honoluludesktop said:

In the VPort section, your file has a Name "3dfaces", but contains no Acad 3DFaces. Can you describe the problem you have with 3DFaces?

i see that you almost got the 3dmodel, but there are missing 2 lines of it. With 1_28 version of you plugin i don't get nothing when importing. So you did somehow to almost import it.

here is what it should be:

create a poll and see what people say

sorry TIG, but i do not agree with you.
to have EVERYTHING on different layers that SU's is better for keeping everything organised. I am sorry you cannot understand that.

TIG, i'm saying isn't it better to have this situation?
@on Layer0, everybody draws their model in SU, say a forrest of cubes.
@now i want to import a dxf, in order to have some drawings that other made, to construct some more geometry into my scene. so it is better to have all the geometry for dxf on other layers that Layer0, to not mess up the entire scene.

all i say is this: the imported dxf should be on it's separate layers, and geometry that is already in SU, should remain on it's layers. Not messing around. Everybody with it's place.

i think this is the best way on keeping everything organised.
cheers!

the left over is gone , so no more "pergolas"

i see that 3d faces are not being imported at all. As you could see in the picture form my erlier post , there is a layer called BF witch is a 3d model from Blender imported into DraftSight, and finally exported as a 3d-dxf. in SU doesn't come that particular object. It is a truncated piramyd, and not a single line appears in SU, neither Layer0, nor any other layer. The layer (the name of it) appears in the layer's list, but no geometry exists. (as seen in the pictures from previous post)

No, do not eliminate Layer0. I'm not saying this. I only say that when Layer0 is turned off( say i want that for seeing just for seeing what i have imported from dxf file), everything dissapears, so by turning off Layer0, my scene desissapears and so the imported geometry from dxf, even though the the geometry from dxf is actually marked as visible.
It is a very strange behaviour, i don't get why you don't understand it. Look carefully at the 2 pictures comparing the situations, into my previous post.

i read the above post
i saw "The plugin needs to be tested for lines, circles, arcs, faces, 3dfaces, and polylines." and i created a new file with everything that you said. So, here iti is:test4plugin.dxf
it is a model that has a layer for each element that you have requested.

after testing it in SU, this is what it needs to be said:

1. everything imported pretty well, but 3Dfaces and Blocks. (blocks i tested with other files, and got the error"bloks not suppoerted)

2. other thing; i think it is a bug: everytime i open an multi-layered dxf in SU, the layer "PERGOLAS" is automatically imported, for no reason. here are the previews:

![what's with "PERGOLAS" ?](/uploads/imported_attachments/LpiM_layerstrangeness0.PNG "what's with "PERGOLAS" ?") ![here's on different file. the "PERGOLAS" still appears for some reason](/uploads/imported_attachments/JpAL_layerstrangeness2.PNG "here's on different file. the "PERGOLAS" still appears for some reason")

3. the last thing: is that SU's Layer0, when is turned off, everything disappears. It should better dissapear only what's on Layer0. If a create another file with two layers on SU, and put different objects on diffenret layers, when i turn off Layer0, not everything disappears.

thanks TIG for the complete description.
i just wanted to dream about how cool it would have been if the text was completely imported with all the characteristics. but never the less,at least everything is imported and even has color.
so, thanks a tonne for making this possible, TIG, you rock!

also, it is an advance already, because i see the rectangle fully imported into SU.

i see in the picture, that the yellow Block is placed 2-times, for some reason
pray it will work tomorrow

good news, mate:
i created another dxf with text and saved as Ascii 2010 drawing dxf
and guess what ? it has imported almost perfectly, if the cyan letters weren't reshaped:

here's the file:text2010.dxf
here's the preview in CAD:
here's the peview in SU:

seems when importing into SU, it is not recognized the shape of the cyan text

the same exact thing happens with a 2004 dxf ,with the cyan text

@honoluludesktop said:

Looks like you got another post in while I was writing the other.>_< The accurate image is based another application that I use to check my work. I placed the SU layer window over it in order that you can ID the layers.

but how did you get that accurate importing? i see all the lines in your SU

here is the layout in DraftSight :

notice that the name "red rectangle" disappears from the layer tab in SU.

i don't know what you did Honoluludesktop, that you got the picture earlier showed.
and by the way, how did you get all the lines importing accurately ?

here are the layers in SU:
please notice that there is Layer0 and 0

"you [still] gave me no clue" - i don't exactly understand what are you saying.
Perhaps my English is not as good as should be.