3D AutoCAD Export Problem - ArchiCAD 11

[Srinivas]

Hi,

I have a problem exporting an ArchiCAD V 11 model into AutoCAD 3D. Attached is the image that I saved from ArchiCAD V 11.

I am working with ArchiCAD USA V 11 - Build 1033.

I am using the same DWG translator settings in both the versions, but still with no luck.

Thanks in advance.

- Srinivas

[Anonymous]

Oh of course. What immediately came to mind is that Revit doesn't have the tools that AutoCAD has. But based on the live screen grabs shown at AU, they're on their way.

[Thomas Holm]

ejrolon wrote:
As a 15 year AutoCAD user.
The addon for Autocad was called Advanced Modeling Extension and it was for R11 and R12. ...

Thanks Eduardo for the heads-up. That work is still impressive, even not considering the tools available! I had no idea that was possible in Autocad at the time, even with the modeling add-on. I was using Microstation then, which had the capabilities, but it was different, being 3D from the ground up.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Thanks Tom,

The benefits of being curious, not having anyone tell me that it could not be done and being only shown a minimum amount of Autocad commands. So I was forced to read the help files

[Anonymous]

AutoCAD's modelling capabilities were not great before 2007. It now retains the history of interactions between solids and voids, so if you don't like the results, you can always get the original solids back. Of course, Revit had this for ages, but when one company buys another I guess you should expect the gearbox from company A to show up in the company B car!

[Erika Epstein]

Scott Davis kindly showed me Revit earlier this year and one feature they have which I wish we did is the ability to associate a 2D element such as a polyline /line with a 3D element, such as a wall.

Ever since when I've added lines to elevations to pop out depth I keep wishing we had that feature because of course the building is going to evolve and then we have to rearrange all the 2D tarting up we did.

[Anonymous]

You can console yourself for the time being with the fact that Revit 2008 doesn't have a depth setting for knocking down lineweights in the background of a section/elevation...

[Thomas Holm]

ejrolon wrote:
So I was forced to read the help files

Whish many more did that

[Rob]

So I was forced to read the help files

yes, help files - the very last resort of AC desperadoes indeed.

[Eduardo Rolon]

No internet and no books meant spending time writing:

c: type c:\autocad\ame.txt |more

on a 13"CRT compaq 50mhz 486, 20Mb hard drive, 8k graphic card.

BTW Wes you could do lofting and meshes(tabsurf, rulesurf commands if I remember correctly) on Autocad R12 too, the only thing that was not possible then was keeping them "live" and I had my workarounds. This was one of the reasons I decided to stop buying Autodesk, I felt they were trying to sell me something as new which I could do already. There are few things that Autocad 2007 can do that I couldn't do in R12. One experiment that I wanted to do was to run DOS on a Virtual Machine so that I could install R12 but my R12 3.5" floppies did not survive the time trip, the dreaded crc cycling error.

Extra info on my thesis file:

- opening time and save was 15-20 min
- printer was a Dye Sublimation each Letter Size Image cost me $20us down from $40 since I was a student
- file size is 6Mb
- Animation was done using 3DStudio R1 and saved as an AVi file and it took ±76 hours without shadows or transparency
- rendering time on a Quadra was 20min per image average and the reasons for using a Mac was that Electric Image was the best renderer available and we had a license, Photoshop did not exist for DOS and I could use a Syquest drive to take the image to the printers.

[Anonymous]

True -- but they were surfaces. And you can't do booleans with surfaces...