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Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:42:09 GMT

Can anyone help with this?

Im currently creating a 3d model in archicad of a site, which has a been surveyed in an autocad drawing.

In order to accurately get the levels onto the 3d model i need to somehow overlay my autocad drawing onto my archicad drawing so that i can draw on the contour lines from the survey. Can anyone suggest a way of importing an autocad drawing into archicad to scale so i can do this?

Thanks alot.

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Thomas Holm — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:54:20 GMT

Please - I'm not here to read the manual for you. Just read the Help file, or the manual. You can even just drag the dwg file into a floor plan window.

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:28:09 GMT

Or you can just place the DWG file using the Drawing Tool, then resize it in its Dialog.

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:38:15 GMT

I have a question on importing 3D cad dwg drawings. Im trying to insert a 3D cad dwg of a site plan... the site dwg is already in a 3d format in Cad but when i import it into Archicad,it comes in as a 2d drawing... is there a certain reason for this or do 3d dwg's need to be imported differently then 2d dwg's? thanks, J

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:48:45 GMT

jrscholl wrote:
I have a question on importing 3D cad dwg drawings. Im trying to insert a 3D cad dwg of a site plan... the site dwg is already in a 3d format in Cad but when i import it into Archicad,it comes in as a 2d drawing... is there a certain reason for this or do 3d dwg's need to be imported differently then 2d dwg's? thanks, J

ArchiCAD only imports 3D DWG as library parts. To convert 3D DWG to a site model you need ArchiTerra, but you will have to convert the DWG to DXF. I just did a very large site and it worked brilliantly (aside from the mediocre quality of the DWG file).

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:57:09 GMT

I have a question on importing a cad dwg drawings. Please help

I'm new in using ArchiCad and I'm trying to insert a cad dwg of a site plan so I can use it to set up my design. How could do that?

thanks

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:31:50 GMT

Start to read from Thomas post above.

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:14:54 GMT

Where?

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:31:38 GMT

Second post from the top. OR start reading

page 386 "Drawings in Model Views" of ArchiCAD 12 Reference Guide
and
page 496 "Opening DWG/DXF Files"
and
in the help file search for drawing

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:50:26 GMT

Here is an Archicadwiki article that may be of help:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/Using%20DWG/DXF%20Files%20in%20ArchiCAD

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:04:39 GMT

Sanaa wrote:
Where?

HERE!

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:58:51 GMT

"Sanaa" wrote:
Can't I import a cad dwg drawings and convert it to archicad? Please help

thanks

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:01:11 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
Here is an Archicadwiki article that may be of help:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/Using%20DWG/DXF%20Files%20in%20ArchiCAD

Thanks kliment

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:04:07 GMT

Sanaa wrote:
Where?

Thank you eduardo

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:25:42 GMT

how we can Importing PDF Files As Drawings ?

Re: Importing Autocad Drawings Into Archicad

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 15:33:12 GMT

File -> External Content -> Place External File

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If the PDF contains vectorial information, it is not an image scan, then you can right click and select explode.