topic Re: !Restored: ACIS Import in Archicad 12 in Collaboration with other software

!Restored: ACIS Import in Archicad 12

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:48:15 GMT

Any one know how I can open an ACIS import (.sat file) into Archad 12 ?

I've had a look at teh manual but it's not clear how / where ?

Re: !Restored: ACIS Import in Archicad 12

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:26:07 GMT

I am interested to know, too.

Re: !Restored: ACIS Import in Archicad 12

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:29:39 GMT

I got round this by dragging the *.sat file (ACIS) into Autocad and then exporting it as an IFC.

Open IFC in Archicad 12 and to be honest it looks pretty good ! Right down to the nuts and bolts. Got there in the end.

Re: !Restored: ACIS Import in Archicad 12

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:46:19 GMT

But what about say in the "01 AC 12 New Features List.pdf"?

DWG Element Conversion Improvements

ACIS Import
A new function allows you to convert AutoCAD 3D Solids, Regions and Bodies into GDL Objects. Opening or merging such objects brings up a Browse dialog box, where you choose the folder to which to save the GDL objects you will create.

Re: !Restored: ACIS Import in Archicad 12

Thomas Holm — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:25:17 GMT

it's not clear how / where ?

I don't know what, but there is definitely something going on here. As I posted here, the dwg importer now translates some 3D elements in a DWG file to 3D items in Archicad, even when you have not Opened the dwg file "as object" which was required previously to get more than a 2D plan representation of the DWG.

The key words in the Help text you refer is "Opening or merging such objects". AFAIK you cannot Merge objects, which points to that this is meant to be the regular File > Open or File > Merge [ .dwg file] commands.

To me this looks like a crippled partial first implementation of a coming feature. To bad it's not exhaustively documented.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!

I have not been able to dig deeper. I don't have Autocad.