Posts made by wwms

Thanks. I did finally get this figured out but encountered another issue with a very simple drawing today. I drew it on what I thought was the "ground" and was told they could only see the side view. I had opened the dwg in solidworks edrawing and illustrator and it looked great in each. So what camera view is the correct view? I wish there was just a simple step-by-step with specific rules to follow. I rotated it so that I could see it in SU from the Front. Maybe I interpreted "ground" incorrectly?

What is strange to me is that I have exported some without any issue and other with many issues. But it sounds as though 2D is the way to go and probably I should learn autocad regardless.

An insights on some best practices for exporting those shapes?

Here is an example of the first file I exported from what I thought was just a flat shape in sketchup. But this is what I was told came out skewed.

Will try again with that file

Thanks John!

It seems so simple to me and yet it just was not importing to autocad nicely. The table essentially has a top plate (that will hold stone), a cross piece, and 2 pieces on each end welded to the cross piece for legs. Trying to upload the original skp now and will attach the simple files I made by copying the plane of each and pasting into a new, clean file.

table_base.skp

Hi there. I am looking for some resources for best ways to export from sketchup to autocad. I have had luck with some, but with others I am told they can't open the file or it is skewed. Mostly we are ordering sheet metal and can specify the thickness and send flat files but I'd like to be able to take my completed model and separate each piece so that we can get A) bids on the work and B) the actual material cut out. My most recent success involved exporting to DWG, opening in Illustrator, then exporting again to DWG. And this last time all sorts of extra garbage came through. I've just been teaching myself so some specific advice and/or tutorials would be most welcome!