topic Re: importing sketchup files 2 in Collaboration with other software

importing sketchup files 2

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:17:14 GMT

hi,

i've managed to get one sketchup file to open... but all others are just freezing my computer. they are exactly the same thing but a different colour and rotated and i can't seem to get it to work. Does anyone have any idea why it woul dbe freezing my computer? thanks

Re: importing sketchup files 2

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:37:18 GMT

olavana wrote:
they are exactly the same thing but a different colour and rotated and i can't seem to get it to work.

Hi Olavana,

Is your Sketchup scene big or does it have heavy geometry? Try creating components from the "heaviest" objects before importing the model in AC.

Hope that helps,
Adrian Tudoreanu

Re: importing sketchup files 2

Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:01:15 GMT

i'm not overly sure what you mean... but it is just a normal sketchup file... and i've used lines to create a solid object. I'll put a print screen below so you can have a look. I've just selected the whole thing and made it a component in order to import into archicad 11. thanks! in the print screen... i've done each chair as a separate file from this main file (if that makes sense ) so i'm tyring to import two components into archicad.

Re: importing sketchup files 2

Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:04:10 GMT

here is the print screen

Re: importing sketchup files 2

Thomas Holm — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:19:35 GMT

That is heavy geometry. If I see right, you've got two different curved shapes, that you've multiplied and rotated. A lot of polygons.

Try to export the two primary shapes, one at a time, and import as two separate objects into Archicad.
Then do the multiplying and rotating in Archicad.

If that gives you problems too, you might try to only import the profiles as 2D lines, and create the shapes from that using the slab tool and save as an object. That would probably give less polygons for archicad to handle, since the surfaces wouldn't be triangulated.

You could also use the profile applied as a complex profile to a wall or a beam and get the same result.