Yeah, this one is a bit better, but not much. The issue is that these look like they were scanned in from a manual drawing and still has too many extra entities and open splines, etc. to make automatic extruding difficult.
You'd need to spend so much time repairing the sketch, it might be easier to just redraw it correctly in CAD!
]]>There are many dual profiles and shared contacts as well...if you can get a better dxf, I could extrude them en masse!
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Thanks, I see what happened. The DXF comes in as a group, so you just have to double-click the group to open it, or you can right-click -> Explode to work with the geometry outside the context of a group.
BTW, I don't know how accurate you need your model, but those plans don't look like they converted well enough to give clean geometry. If I had to do this, I'd convert the PDF to a JPEG image, import the image and trace over it. Its a little more work, but the results would be worth it.
BTW, I don't know how accurate you need your model, but those plans don't look like they converted well enough to give clean geometry. If I had to do this, I'd convert the PDF to a JPEG image, import the image and trace over it. Its a little more work, but the results would be worth it.
]]>1. Download the plugin. Link is on the bottom right of this page.
2. In Sketchup, go to Windows > Preferences, and select "Extensions" on the left side of the window. Click "Install Extension...", and find the RBZ file of the plugin you downloaded. Sketchup will ask "Do you want to install this Extension?", click "Yes"
3. Initiate the plugin from the "Plugins" menu.
This is all legit, although Sketchup would rather you use the official Extensions Warehouse for safety reasons. Jim, the author of the plugin, wrote the plugin long before the Extensions Warehouse was released. He's well known and trusted, so the plugin won't hurt your system.
Hope that helps!
]]>Anyhow, the free sketchup 2013 will not import dxf, that's a pro feature only.
You can import DXF in the free version of Sketchup with the plugin I linked to above.
]]>The article talks about DXF files, which free Sketch up will import.
Yeah, meant dxf, brains kinda goofy now I guess.
Anyhow, the free sketchup 2013 will not import dxf, that's a pro feature only.
]]>1) Convert PDF to JPEG. Import JPEG and trace the lines manually in Sketchup.
2) Use the method linked above...Convert PDF to DXF using Inkscape. Use this plugin to import DXF to Sketchup Make (the free version).