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Import Rhino

Anonymous
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I am trying to import a rhino model into an archicad drawing,

I export the drawing from Rhino as DXF, but when I "place an external drawing" and select the DXF file, nothing appears except a faint yellow square, outlining where the drawing should be.

Has anyone any experience in exporting rhino shapes? Or a link to a tutorial.

Thanks in advance,

b
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stefan
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Today, I have done a few attempts (convertion a stubborn 3D DWG model to ArchiCAD). I was hoping that Rhino would be a good intermediate, but I have little success.

DWG does not open in ArchiCAD.
DWG opens in Rhino. Save again as DWG. No success in ArchiCAD.
DWG in Rhino, saved as 3DS. Install plug-in for ArchiCAD. No success upon import (4kb GSM file). The 3DS looks fine in Rhino, SketchUp and Blender.

Last time I had success with these files, I had to go through Microstation (but I don't have it installed right now).
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