Autocad Import Sketchup

[Azalee Rowling]

Iam having trouble importing a DWG block (from AutoCAD 2018) into sketchup pro 2018. I have read prior posts and seen that saving the AC drawing in an earlier format (2013), and exporting the block again, should help solve this. However, this has not worked.

So numb nuts over here (me) has worked it out. I have to open the exported block and save as earlier version. Thanks for the help anyway guys. It is a bit of a schlep, mind. Hopefully Trimble will make Sketchup more compatible with AC 2018 soon!

You may encounter a situation where you want to export a layout view as a model space drawing. You can do so by following these steps: At the bottom of the drawing area, click the Layout tab of the layout you want to export. Right-click the tab, and...

This plug-in no doubt can import sketchup model to CAD. But when the model is called in into the CAD software, the model scale is messed-up. So basically you can't do anything on the model except you have to re-draw again. But, I found in the sketchup software, you can actually to EXPORT the sketchup model into CAD model and the scale is still same from the original model.

I imported a 2021 Sketchup into AutoCAD 2023 and it works fine, no issues. It imports and turnes it into a block. I wish it would list all the blocks its importing, give us the option to choose which blocks to bring in, and also give us the option to smoothen meshes of some of selected blocks.

There are several possible issues.1. SKP file version is beyond 2014-2019. (You can save the SKP file to a version supported by the app)2. SKP file path contains non-English characters. (You can update the path to contain English only characters)3. Some other issues...

Hello! I have encountered a problem importing a file from sketchup to autocad. The model displays correctly that's not a problem. The problem I have is that the scale is messed up and weird diagonal lines have appeared on my modeel, Lines which are not present in the original .skp file. Please let me know if this is a known problem or if you can't help me as I am using an add-in to import the .skp file. Thank you so much. If I need to send a screenshot of the problem with the diagonal lines let me know as I would be happy to do so!

Ok so i tried changing the visual style to conceptual and the model shows up correctly unless i move my cursor over the model and highlight it but i guess that's normal. About the scale though i am not sure if i did things correctly but i started a new drawing using the "no template - metric" template as i set the units in sketchup to meters when i started modelling. After that I imported the file again and when i use the measure tool it says that 8.72m( that's the dimension is sketchup) is 343 units in autocad.

well, I downloaded the plugin for SKP-Import (I assume you are using the same) and got the same issue.

The importer interprets the SKP-file as it was in Inch, not sure if the SKP file (as I don't know Sketchup and maybe it's special settings, e.g. in the viewer the dimension shows Meter, but when you go to model position and scaling it shows Millimeter) has issues or the importer in AutoCAD.

Your dimension style "Millimeter" with a scale factor of 25.4 shows the dimension with a value you can use to put the plan to paper, but using this geometry in other drawings would bring it in incorrect.

Thanks a lot for your help! I wasn't expecting for you to modify the file so it displays the units correctly. I will see about the scale thing if it will ever be necessary for me to import skp files to autocad. Thanks so much again and I hope you will have a nice day!

Maybe you can post the file so we can get a better understanding of the problem. Theoretically, FLATTEN should work, try exploding the geometry first and try again, this shouldn't be the reason or the solution, but you never know.

In first one, we can import our dwg file to Archicad by Graphisoft.... This architectural drawing program flattens our lines when keeping our layers in order. Then we can export or save as this file to dwg file... THATS ALL

The second one in a little complicated actually.... as you know autocad processes lisp files which are helpful extensions in CAD drawings. A lisp called "iron" makes our lines flattened also. But this lisp needs layers to be collected in "0" and colour as white...

very impressive command as I was in desperate need of this because flatten would not work. Now the problem is after I executed the previous, it seems my UCS is all hosed up. I try to pick an iso view and my crosshairs comply but not the view itself... I finally get the gizmo to rotate (the view) but my crosshairs do not cooperate... any other suggestions to flatten? strange stuff happening now

I also dont see the curves forming that area so that I can re-site the origin using Sketchup tool for doing so.

Try again, no option in Rhino to export curves, an option to export planar regions as polygons I have ticked.

One then places the Perspective match origin tool on picture for same origin as for model, in my case rear cab base corner, however if unble to have it there on model I cant finish what would appear to work, and its a free prog.

oh great surely a CAD prog uses curves ?

Sefaira Support Best Practices for Importing Rhino Files into SketchUpSketchUp is capable of importing two file types from Rhino: AutoCAD (.dwg /.dxf) and 3DS Max files (.3ds). Follow these steps to minimize file size and optimize the model for import into SketchUp....

also sketchup fails to deliver the result, the perspective in fact matched but when I scaled model to picture height the length was somewhat less than model which is accurate.

back to the drg board

Steve

So, Im a Sketchup User, and also i love Archicad. But there is something that i HATE in AC is modeling a terrain (im not talking about importing TXT coordinates from survey method).

Actually I rather chew glass than do it in Archicad.

in the other hand, i can model it in sketchup in a minute with the sandbox tool.

Im really eager to know how are doing it on AC.

Thank you.

1. You have to export your dwg to 3ds, to do this you have to download the 3DSOUT utility from Autodesk (couldnt post the address they don't allow since this is my first post, but you can perform a search for 3DSOUT on the autodesk web site), since they removed the 3dsout command from Autocad since release 2007, this utility works for all the later versions even though they claim only applies to the version listed there, i tried it on the AutoCAD Architecture 2009 release and it works fine. There you have on the readme file where you downloaded the utility the instructions for how to use the utility and to export to 3ds format.

2. When you have already loaded the utility on AutoCAD and you are ready to export to 3ds, on the 3d Studio file Options window, you have to select AutoCAD Object type on the Derive 3d Studio Objects from options, and uncheck the Auto-smoothing option, and then then AutoCAD starts exporting to 3ds. You have to do this because its exports forms, solids and other 3d objects in different ways.

The same happened to me apparently there is no compatibily yet with this application on the 2010 release, I read on some forum, that the 3dsout app, was released because they were too having many people complainnig since they eliminated the 3ds export capability, 2006 was the last version to be able to export to 3ds with the export command.

For fbx there are several plugins for other applications that are compatible with autocad architecture, you would have to import the dwg file to 3ds max, or other apps, (this way has also problems with curved solids) then export there to fbx, or export to 3ds on a previous version of Autocad, then import in 3ds max, Maya etc. on the autodesk web site there are many plugins. I have not really used this fbx much and i cannot give you a correct answer or another ways to do it, but if i come up with an answer i'll let you know

I was using Autocad with no issue. Now I had to change to sketchup. When I import the size is not the same. I export in Sketchup to a dxf file set to mm. When I import to lightburn the size is not right. A 6mm line for example is now 6.766. I checked my lightburn settings for import they are set to mm and the auto close is set to 0.000. Any thoughts about how to fix this. I scaled it down and got to it work but that takes up time. Thanks for the help.

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