!Restored: sketchup?

[Anonymous]

Any body had any luck with sketch up brand cad imports? We have a pool designer that uses that program and the owner wants his pool in our model.

[__archiben]

Shae wrote:
Any body had any luck with sketch up brand cad imports? We have a pool designer that uses that program and the owner wants his pool in our model.

shae

i saw a demo of an archiCAD plugin to import sketch up geometry at the archiCAD university in the summer. it was a bit rough around the edges back then! still waiting for it though. i see that a couple of days ago they brought one out for ADT:

http://sketchup.com/press_release.php?recordid=26

soon maybe?

~/archiben

[David Larrew]

Last year a colleague and I gave a presentation to a group of architects/engineers for the AIA that illustrated using and integrating multiple design, CAD, and presentation software packages.

Part of the presentation I imported a SketchUp file into ArchiCAD using the beta version of the SketchUp import API. I was very impressed with it's capabilites, and I'm sure it has improved since the beta.

Have you tried it? Are you having problems? I'll admit that I haven't upgraded or used the API since then.

[Anonymous]

People interested in beta testing the SketchUp2ArchiCAD import plugin should send me a private email.

(ac 8.0 and 8.1 only, Win/Mac OSX only)

Shae, you can send me the pool and I can convert it..

[David Larrew]

Ferenc,

I didn't realize that it was still in Beta testing. Has the API changed much within the last year? It's good to hear your working on it.

[Anonymous]

Working on it...
It depends how you look at it.

As far as the feedback goes, it is pretty much ready for primetime-technically speaking. I had to do a significant rewrite for the MacOSX/ SketchUp3.0 version, and then bring the windows version up to par, finalize the standalone installers (for a while I was hoping the plugin can find its way to the standard ArchiCAD distribution -where it would belong IMHO), but ended up in standalone installers. The update for 8.1 was pretty uneventful.

In the hope of further feedback, until it is released, I try to keep the - ethernal- betatesting open, after the release it will be code maintenance.

I have several ideas for further refinements, but first it has to bring some return on @Last's investment. The ADT plugin has some good new ideas, some unnecessary complications and some mistakes, but since the ArchiCAD plugin stabilized and took whatever we threw at it the feedback went kinda silent.

I see it very useful extension to ArchiCAD for conceptual studies, quick graphical object creation, and cleaning up(stitching) 3d dwg/dxf files and intelligently convert them into ArchiCAD walls/slabs roofs.

[TomWaltz]

Ferenc

did you ever update this for Archicad 9? Or is there some way to get the 8.1 version?

[Anonymous]

I have an updated (9.0) windows version.
It can read in and convert the SketchUp 3.1 files, functionally the same as the 8.1 version was. I need to create a new installer.

The mac version hasn't been updated yet. I think I will make a functional update on that for 9.0 (no intermediate xml file, the installation was not very user proof)

Will probably put it up on Objects Online or some other channel.

I'm still not worthy to have my hands on the 4.0 version of SketchUpReader.DLL, so one has to save it as version 3.1 from the latest SketchUp.

As far as I know the 8.1 version is still downloadable from the @Last website.

[stefan]

Ferenc wrote:
I have an updated (9.0) windows version.
It can read in and convert the SketchUp 3.1 files, functionally the same as the 8.1 version was. I need to create a new installer.

The mac version hasn't been updated yet. I think I will make a functional update on that for 9.0 (no intermediate xml file, the installation was not very user proof)

Will probably put it up on Objects Online or some other channel.

I'm still not worthy to have my hands on the 4.0 version of SketchUpReader.DLL, so one has to save it as version 3.1 from the latest SketchUp.

As far as I know the 8.1 version is still downloadable from the @Last website.

Do you mean you don't have access to the SketchUp 4.0 SDK or do you mean you don't have SketchUp 4.0 to test?

I don't see a function to export a SketchUp 4.0 file into an older version format!

[Anonymous]

I don't have access to the 4.0 sketchupreader sdk, nor a 4.0 NFR for testing.

@last stated that they are working with a new contractor -since last August- and the 4.0 compatible version is "soon to go beta" (as of September 2004) - without specific timeline.

The export into 3.1 version supposed to be a sketchup plugin downloadable from their support website - according to a post on their forum.