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Those CAD entities that are ignored by the importer are not edges. As Kenny indicates, exploding the text converts it to edges which can be displayed in the SketchUp model.

TIG has a .dxf importer that can deal with text but you'd need a dxf file instead of dwg.

Thankyou very much Gaieus, I just went through learning the kerkythea renamed zip files, so I will remember that.
cheers.

@jhauswirth said:

@biff said:

But everyone has to tweak their images and orientations in LO for the final presentation.

What settings are you tweaking in LO that you can't in SU?
Note that if you tweak things in LO and you see (Modified) listed in the SU dialog for the Scene name, its not going to render what SU is rendering- that's what (Modified) means, you modified the Scene in some way, so LO takes a snapshot of the Scene because it thinks since you modified the Scene you want your changes to stick. LO will only match what you see in SU if you have a Scene selected in LO and it isn't marked (Modified). Also, if you change the shadow light/dark settings, you need to update the Scene afterwards to capture the new settings and LO will only render those new settings if the Scene isn't
marked (Modified).

Thanks for the reply.
Actually by the mention of tweaking in this instance, read reorientation of maybe a perspective view, to suit the final presentation on an A3 paper. This process is not fast and easy, as often a rerender is needed to see an incremental window crop or positioning.
What you have explained makes perfectly clear sense, and I can see why it has been thought out like that. But in my way of thinking, perhaps the application of this thinking is a little flawed in practice.
I will explain why. It takes a fair while for me to orient, and position a perspective architectural shot in LO. I'm sure many people get pedantic at LO stage too, there is a certain graphic composition that needs to be obtained. No way could I have preplanned that exact position in SU without seeing the final against my presentation sheet and other components. I finally get positioned and realise a test print shows the shadows a bit dark. So, you would naturally assume a quick tweak of shadows in SU and rerender in LO. But actually it means I have to choose that scene again and go through the fairly cumbersome orienting and positioning of the object.

@unknownuser said:

so LO takes a snapshot of the Scene because it thinks since you modified the Scene you want your changes to stick
---my approach to this would be that if you updated a scene for shadows you would want to see that result in LO.
ALso I see in LO there are shadow settings for time and date, could not light and dark be brought across too?
Thanks again for the reply.Layout is getting better and better.