![]() ![]() It is important to know that it is worth taking some time to prepare your CAD file for importing into SketchUp in order to achieve the best result. Without SketchUp Pro it is not possible to import a dwg or dxf file. Yes! SketchUp can open, or more accurately import a dwg or dxf file – but the caveat to this is that you have to own SketchUp Pro. ![]() First in that series is the question: Can SketchUp open a dwg or CAD file? ![]() Anyhow thats probably how I would do it.CI have looked at some of the things I get asked the most about SketchUp and put together a list of frequently asked questions to help out those of you that might be new to sketchup or have a few questions they want answered. lol Basically a window would be a component of the building and a piece of the frame would be a part to the component and you would look up that part from a library of window frame parts as a funtion in the OTL straight from the hard drive. I am not explaining this well but it makes alot of sense in my head. The smart thing would be to build components of the building in parts that would be OTLs that would read in base parts objects as a library type function system that would allow you quickly and rapidly prototype a building and build new parts of the components of the building to add to the library. I have already thought of this to some extent but I don't know again how involved this would be. The best solution I agree would to be to have a DWG import plugin into houdini that even does some of the building for you in an auto modeling system. I have not seen this happen correctly yet with DXF plus I tend to see alot of errors in DXF format. The things I would really want to see with an import of a CAD file is the units and elivations preserved and for all of the curves to be NURBS when the import is done. I would just have to learn HDK which probably would not be too bad for me considering I already know Maya's SDK. Actually I am a C++ Guru but I don't know how much time I would have to code that plugin and how involved it would get. Quite frankly I lose alot of information in the. Hey, Correct me if I am wrong but DXF is not a format that supports NURBS. ![]()
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