Cad Drawing To Sketchup. Importing a DWG to Sketchup. You could quite easily vectorize using Illustrator and export the vector paths to a DWG or DXF format which you can then open and use in SketchUp.
CAD drawings for example contain a variety of shapes line types and text. Import the DWG in Sketchup a function available for free on Sketchup 7 but only in the Pro version of Sketchup 8 Create a cross-sectional plane parallel to the ground in Sketchup. First open up Sketchup 7.
Export the AutoCAD model as a DWG file.
Importing and exporting common CAD file formats has always been part of SketchUps DNA but CAD files imported into SketchUp do have a few known quirks that you can sidestep if you know the tips explained in this article. Export the AutoCAD model as a DWG file. From 2D CAD to 3D in SketchUp. I restructured the material of your design to catch the entities with each tag into different groups tagging each group and after that setting all edges and deals with to be untagged as must constantly hold true in SketchUp however isnt how they normally show up from AutoCAD.
