Sketchup To Autocad
Tiffani Wernett
You could just simply close the geometry in SU by drawing a line from one end of the profile to the other. I believe that if you set up blocks in autocad they will come in as components in SU but you would still have to close the geometry in order to create a surface.
I checked with solid inspector, in sketchup, you have a problem indeed :
the white columns appears as solid, but the blue and green one have a couple of holes on top. Since they are all different components, it would take a day to fix by hand.
I have just upgraded to the latest and greatest macbook pro as my older MBP couldnt run enscape. I have installed windows bootcamp but am now working with adobe programs on Mac, autocad on parallels (as per previous mac) and now sketchup/enscape on windows bootcamp. I need to go to 3 platforms to run different programs for same assessments (am an interior design student). Right now I'm thinking I should have got a PC laptop and run everything on one platform. Any solutions from mac book pro users? I can run everything through bootcamp windows on my macbook, but then why didnt I buy a windows PC? thanks in advance.
This is one of the biggest problems with sketchup. The only way around this I know of is to break up the circles and arcs in Autocad into smaller segments. This increases the number of segments in sketchup for the original circle or arc. It can take time to do this. I expect there is a lsp that could do it for you, but I haven't found it.
As sub-optimal solution I imported the dwg into sketchup, used "add faces" to add all faces possible, this makes it a bit easier to see issues than in AutoCAD. I then fixed the most glaring and obvious problems. I then used "create spaces from diagram" and exported the resulting osm to gbxml. I then extracted all the floors along their "width" and "height" using a text editor and sorted the resulting areas to find the smallest surfaces. I then found the issues that caused these surfaces to be created and fixed them in the original dwg.
Dear archinet friends,
I'll be buying a laptop soon before I start my first year in a undergraduate school. As I had consulted the lecturers on the designing programmes that I'll be using at the school,they are archicad,autocad,photoshop and sketchup (as written at the title).In your opinion,do you think macbook is sufficient to run all the stated programmes?or should i go for pro?or you recommend something else?
I heard that if you do light designing using autocad,macbook is good enough,is that true?I also heard that autocad has a lot of problems when you run it in windows of mac computer,is that true as well?have they fix the bugs?lastly, my uni specifically ask for an express card reader to be bought if a laptop does not have an in-built reader. So,if i buy an external one,will it be connecting to the USB port or some other slot?
unless money is no object, have you considered going with two PC's for what it will cost for a Mac Pro? i've been tempted to try Mac again, but have been advised by Mac friends to go Pro if doing the type of work i'm doing and that's a lot pricier than PC...
seems like you are open to the idea of a non-Mac solution too...while i fully recognize that Macs are amazing machines with an OS that's miles ahead of any version of Windows, i'm also too lazy to deal with all the extra work involved in making dual OS's work on it...plus all the new native Mac software i'd need to buy/source...
i run two PC's with all of the same software plus rhino and a couple of rendering programs...3D Max i stay away from, but many people use it...
benefit is that i carry a small laptop (13.3) for portability day to day (meetings, presentations, etc), and use the larger one (17) for serious work (mostly at work, but still viable to take it out of the office) with the larger screen...
if i were back in school again, i'd probably go with a setup like i have now...regarding which windows? XP to keep the entire system fast, not just for autocad...
difference between FUSION and PARALLELS
with PARALLELS if u want to use "the dark side of the force (windows)" you have to reboot your computer as also to come back to the MAC side, in other words, you have to reboot in order to use any of the sides...and you can never run both (MAC and WINDOWS) at the same time
with FUSION u dont have to reboot, you can run both OS (operative systems) at the same time, you can even place windows as an icon of your MAC side, and just click in it as any other aplication
Rhino does not have a MAC version... YET, there's a BETA version that was circulating from the rhino website, but it was pretty basic... still seems that it will be a rhino version for MAC before u get to your junior year.
REVIT (no clue)
get a WINDOWS XP for ur MAC, dont get VISTA, please, VISTA is like the worst version of windows ever!!!, if u need windows to run autocad or your "revit" do it from a windows XP
whatever u get...macbook or PRO just try to boost ur RAM as much as u can, forget your MICROSOFT WORD (deliver ur essays by hand) and better invest in a RAM boost, hehehehehe, no but seriously, get RAM
any external HD with a USB cable will work in a MAC
yeah i sometimes understand de fear to try a MAC, but is way more what people speculate than actually the reality, in other words, the adaptation is not that difficult, and you dont regret it, at least in my case, after doing all my school and first years of my profesional life with PCs and lately changing to MAC, the simple fact to try MAC, made me realize there's another complee different way to do architecture, to work of architecture, to see computers as a completelly diff tool, etc., i kind of realized is not about your machine bt about you, the machine is just a tool.... if your machine also inspires you to think different than the pack, then i guess thats where the plus come from.....
but yeah, at the end, get whatever makes you feel more comfortable.... i have an i.mac at the office, and a MACBOOK PRO at home, i did all my school with one PC laptop, right now i will do it again only with one laptop, but this days i will no doubt, get a MAC
bests
you guys' advice have been a great help :) Actually, I prefer Imac over those laptops but too bad, I need a portable laptop so that I can bring it around my campus :( I never trust lenovo pc before but that because I haven't really know it as no one around me has used it before, but I guess I should keep my eyes out for that. However, do you think macbook pro is a durable laptop? I'm hoping to use macbook pro (if I'm getting a pro) until i got my first degree before I consider switching to a new laptop again. I got an interesting offer for a macbook pro through my girl friend's university which comes along with software like adobe CS3 web premium and microsoft office for mac along with 3 years warranty and a laptop sling bag - cost about 1.5k USD,I think...
When you use windons and mac OSX side by side,don't your computer become extremely slow? is 2GB of RAM sufficient for such usage? I don't mind to completely switching over to Mac OSX as I only need windows for those designing programmes like autocad and also for light gaming purposes. I gladly switch over to MAC OSX as I'm bored with windows,especially windows xp.. lol =p
no problems for me, but like i said, i don't model/render huge cutting edge forms with ridiculous numbers of faces...i run autocad, CS3, sketchup, podium and rhino...podium renders that used to take 30-40 minutes are now taking 5-10 instead...rhino models can be manipulated no problem...all of this except sketchup with podium is under windows in boot camp...
other than that, it's just personal preference for screen size, whether its enough real estate to look at...
also the 13" unibody mac is very slim compared to 13" PC's, but heavy for it's size though...
HI! I'm an architectural student, i made a mesh cloud of a street. My main interest is to have an 3D possible to then have sections to make some plans. But i cannot produce a file capable to be open in autocad or sketchup. I'm making a research mainly on google. And my professors do not now how to obtain this kind of results with an meshlab file. Do you know any tutorial, example or advise to achieve this results? Thank you for your attention.
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