Importing CAD FILES into SketchUp
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- In this video, learn to import CAD files into SketchUp and use them to create 3D plans! In this video we talk about how to quickly create walls from imported CAD data!
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I've been watching so many of your videos recently across your channels for help when I've been stuck or for tips and tricks. You're so clear and helpful, keep up the great work Justin!
I have recently learned AutoCAD and I am finding that drawing my floor plans in AutoCAD kind of forces me to develop a stronger floor plan (working out all the space planning and circulation issues in autocad first). I also love the dimensioning tools in AutoCAd a lot better--it is just a lot smoother. With that said I love that I am then able to bring that finalized floor plan into SketchUp to do my 3D renders; ie there is none of that 2D AutoCAD work has gone to waste! I love this workflow. I am also learning that you can spend a lot of time trying to develop a furniture plan after you bring in your 3D furniture because you'll constantly be tweaking things (it's tempting to do when you have all your 3D elements available and ocd and perfectionism kicks in). So if you really think through your floor plan and furniture in plan view, get that to a really solid point and then bring into SketchUp it minimizes all the necessary tweaking that I have fallen victim to!
Dude, your explanation is just crystal clear. Keep it up!
Awesome - glad you liked it!
1. File > Import
2. Select autocad dwg files
3. Options > merge coplanar faces, orient faces, import materials > Set Scale
4. Reset Scale
5. Tape measure within group > turn off create guide mode > using the guide, resize a part of the entire model
6. Trace each part of the model > using rect tool + reverse faces > separate them into groups
Thank you so much for sharing knowledge...your explanation is amazing and super clear...easy language, the pace...everything is just perfect.THANK YOU
Thanks 😎
I have seen many videos and every time I find you are the best Sketchup Guy! Thanks
Thanks very much! :)
omg i've learned alot from your blender channel. Can't believe that you have a sketchup one as well. You're amazing
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hi jayson, just watching your video helps me a lot as a beginner in sketchup.Cheers!
Thanks Justin - importing dwg files can be really tricky. You make it seem simple.
Bless your sketch-up magic & teachings, such a helpful video!
Glad it was helpful!
you are really awesome men, I always learn from all your tutorials thank you very much!
You always give the best and easiest tips. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this! Your videos are so helpful!
This is really helpful
I do tha same you did but sure new steps I've just learned
THX!
Really easy to follow along with! Super appreciate this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks again for this video, it is really beneficial.
What I have found important to do is to clean up the cad file before importing it to here.
Really I draw AutoCad with all lines;
Lines of the Walls, Finishing, axis...
So I have found it so essential to clean up the CAD file before importing it to here.
14-02-2022
i really like your videos brother.
They are very helpful. Thanks alot!!
I learned so much, thank you sir. Keep up the good work!
Glad to hear it!
thank you for this! this was really helpful. Could you tell me where to find the part 2 video?
Wow your teaching style is so good and easy
intro is always on fire
Thanks Justin, always more wrinkles to iron out and you seem to know them all! I appreciate your time to help others learn SKUp
:) - Trying my best!
This was super helpful thank you so much!
first video..... short and to the point. thx.
A very useful lesson for all aspiring softians
so good explanations and tutorials. support from philippines.
Brilliant video, thanks Justin! Your videos really help me a lot
Whatsup guys, great explanation,, you are the go-to guy, Thanks and appreciation
Thank you, thank you mate!
Thank's Brow Your Video is Really Helpful, I really LOVE its .
This tutorial very helpful for me,thank sir
thanks, it actually let me through so i could download it.
tnx Brother I got it when I turn the subtitles on
very informative and helpful. thankyou. more videos please. God bless you
Very helpful, thank you so much.
Soooo helpful!! thank you!!
Thanks a lot, you're very helpful
Great video, thank you so much!
thank you for this video, really helped alot.
its really helpful thank you bro.
it worked! thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for this upload
Thanks for watching!
Thanx a lot! I've watched a lot of videos before, but only you show how to resize a plan after import.
Glad it was helpful!
You're the best! I can't thank you enough. I've seen several videos of yours before and they are always so clear, concise, informative, amazing. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Thank you! Really glad you've found them helpful!
Thank you. very helpful!!
gee, helps a lot! thanks!
Nice video. Easy to understand. A link to next in progression would be nice. Ready for doors and windows!
You may want to try this series - czcams.com/video/WGsN5tBfMTY/video.html - I went totally start to finish on a small house - thanks!
Thank you so much this helped a lot!!!! You saved my life
Glad it helped!
Wtf i didnt even comment this
Thanks bro do you have tutorials for autocad as well?
Your videos are very good! Thanks for sharing you knowledge!
Waiting for Part-2 @Justin
awesome technique from philippines student :>
your the best bro..... love
WOW! your videos are amazing! love it! Your works are GREAT! I just started my CZcams channel and hope i can improve my works too!
Thank you for the tutorial :)
You're welcome 😊
So helpful. Please make a more video tutorial brother, thanks
Thank you, I will
Check out the plugin Make Face. I use it importing DXF logos into SketchUp. Just select geometry and poof. Extrudable faces. Thanks for the vid!
Great vid!
Thanks!
Thanks a lot for your efforts in making this video but i am interested to start from scratch and how it was made in 2d autocad. Do you have its links please?
complete. So I put a few videos up to show what i've got so far, and i'm hoping that soone will take the ti to watch them, let
Nice video, but the workflow is far from optimal. I first use Edge Tools² coz it happens there are open ends in the CAD file. Then Eneroth Flatten to Plane to take out eventual Z-differentialities, and last Eneroth Face Creator to create the faces automatically. Then copy the whole 2D drawing for safety and start extruding.
you are a godsend! thank you so much
Glad it helped!
thank you so much sir!
Thx a lot, very useful👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thnaks a lot 🤗
Good job man....thanks
Glad it helped!
Hey sir, 7:26 how to do that automatic in all of line, whether use a plugin?
thanks for this man
No problem!
failed collada file import in sketchup .. how to solve ? please reply
OMG thanks for this
No problem!!
thankyou !!!
Maybe you can add a link to that video that talked about moving all the lines onto the same plane? I don't remember which video you did to talk about it but it would help a lot with some CAD files. Also, any tips on getting rid of tiny lines that extend into the face, making it impossible to fill it in by tracing the edges? I would usually have to zoom in really close and then erase those stray lines before any faces can be made.
Here you go - czcams.com/video/uRatu9YJzIo/video.html - no real tips on erasing the lines, other than you possibly could use a tool like edge tools? czcams.com/video/XrBx1tRFYRg/video.html
Thank you Justin. I am a newbie even though I have been playing around with SketchUp for a few years. Now my new employer found out I know a little about it and is wanting me to do more in it. "Yikes!" right? Anyway, I noticed that in your drawing when you where raising the walls that you didn't just connect all the walls together. example is what I think is a bedroom bathroom wall on the left.So now the inside wall is not part of the outside wall geometry. Why is that? I am sure I am missing something of value because on models that I have done I go crazy linking and group all my walls so that I can "Raise" all the walls together... Mind you, I come in later and push the holes for the doors and windows after the wall raising, and your example already had doors in the CAD drawing. Just wanted to see if I was missing something of value by doing it the way I do appose to what I see you've done. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
thank you Bro
So helpful 🌹🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
hey i want to ask a question, i need answer ASAP.(im a very very new to sketchup, and i need to submit an assignment fast).
ive done the pull thing to create walls, but now my objects are transparent how to make it look solid? i can see the lines that ive made pls help
EDIT : I FOUND THE SOLUTION, ITS A BACK EDGE PRESS K TO TOGGLE OFF
thank you
Welcome!
Hello Justin, first of all I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge with us in this playful and pleasant way, specific to you...I'm sorry to bother you with a question which is the following: I work on Sketchup and when I render my SU Podium, my floor does not appear, it appears all white...:(
Does it appear white if you reverse the face in SketchUp?
hi, Justin! Thanks! I think you've answered some specific AND general questions I had. Just to check: Short of saving drawings as DXF, is there a way to get *Inkscape* SVG files directly into SketchUp 2021 Pro? Also, given your tip about having SU "remember" a measurement, might there still be a way to manually select non-contiguous faces to pull them up at the same time? Thanks!
I don't know about SVG's - I've never used them before
I just did an Inkscape SVG from a silhouette i downloaded. I exported it as a png from Inkscape. I uploaded it like Justin did in this video. Png to dxf. It turned out very well. Thanks Justin!
thank u so much!^^
No problem!!
Thanks Justin
Could you do a tutorial related specifically for scaling precise units from imported CAD.
As I study Landscape Architecture I am mostly concerned about setting scales for 1:1250 or 1:5000 and designing from maps.
I don't understand - you set a scale based on a known distance - it's not really any different than what I did in this video - find a distance that you know, then use the tape measure tool to re-scale your model
Justin, my point is when working in something like AutoCAD and 3ds Max, often unit settings have to be changed before importing drawing data to ensure Real World Coordinate information is correct when working in those programs. For example, going from mm to meters and vice versa before creating anything. The Scale tool in any 2d/3d app is only accurate to relative or absolute unit settings in the first place.
For example, if I import a terrain map set at 1:5000 from Digimap to Auotcad, I have to be sure to set the Scale units first correctly relative to real world coordinates.
Just because something measures 10 meters in Sketch up doesn’t mean that is accurate to real world coordinate information.
One way Architects can check this is by printing out a map from a 2d/3d app and using a scale ruler to see if the Scale was set correctly on the drawing by measuring an object.
If I am working in AutoCAD on a drawing set in meters and decide to use centimetres, merely using the Scale tool to resize everything will be inaccurate unless I change program unit settings too.
www.landfx.com/docs/sketchup/getting-started/item/2285-sketchup-units.html
very useful
Thank you..
When i double click it goes downward than upwards?
thanks
wait wheres the next video ? i was having fun learning!
I'm having trouble when I import cad files. it says that the file can't be import/error.
realy useful
It says that components within the model that were loaded from external file cant be resize what should i do?
How are you forming a face with the line tool so quickly? Without having to take the line tool all around the shape of the wall?
Thanks
No problem!
Thnx
I am trying to import autocad file 2018 version to my sketchup 2018 pro, but it shows import failed all the time, how to resolve this issue, thank you
How do you deal with the lines from the undercoat that doesn't want to lay the plane even after tracing manually in Skp? Intersect> With Selection doesn't work for everything. Any plug?
How can I add the navigation bar you are using?
Su make face is the bomb for cad file importing
I had a hunch this has potential automation options to speed it up. I do pretty much Justin's method but if we can skip manual clean up to create planes for extruding as walls, esp on many CAD file where the wall lines don't come in as connected planes, that is worth learning. Is that S4U or SU make face, and is that in the extension warehouse or sketchucation?
@@artworksenvisioneering2167 You can get it from both I think. I got it from the extension warehouse. Orient faces after you make face to help the push pull process
Tested this out just a bit and it seemed to work pretty well - might be worth a follow up video - thanks!
tanks a lot
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THANKS.....SO HELPFULL .... BUT I HAVE IMPORT A 3D MODEL FROM AUTOCAD AND WHEN YOU OPEN IT , IT BRINGS THE COLORS FROM AUTOCAD LAYERS, EVEN IF YOU´RE WORKING IN NON COLOR MODE IN SKETCHUP... THAT AFFECTS IN ANYTHING?... IF YOU'RE GOING TO WORK IN TWINMOTION LATER?.....HOW CAN I TRASFORM THOSE COLORS IN SKETCHUP?.....THANKS
thnaks