SketchUp to AC10?

[Anonymous]

What is the best way to import SketchUp models into AC10?

[Anonymous]

aggie463 wrote:
What is the best way to import SketchUp models into AC10?

Yes! I would like to know this as well.

[Anonymous]

aggie463 wrote:
What is the best way to import SketchUp models into AC10?

.....here's our answer:

Sure, download the plug-in:
http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/solutions/sketchup.html

This is for 9, but once converted should open in 10 as well.

[Anonymous]

Progress report for you guys:
The Sketch-Up plug-in works fine, but you'll need patience for this transaction. Unless you have 10gHZ (which I do with my new quad G-5) and 16 gigs of memory (which I don't have, but need desperately), it will seem like forever for the sketch-up .skp file to be converted into ArchiCAD 9 workability. Once that's done, expect to be busy for a while re-assigning materials and possibly deleting unwanted objects (my .skp file seems to have a lot of useless items added from design changes).

Also, be sure to go to Work Environment and turn off all of your "3D Calculation Process Check Controls", or you'll spend half of your day clicking off a gazillion warning windows!

Hope this helps,

Todd
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grenderer wrote:

aggie463 wrote:
What is the best way to import SketchUp models into AC10?

.....here's our answer:

Sure, download the plug-in:
http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/solutions/sketchup.html

This is for 9, but once converted should open in 10 as well.

[Anonymous]

How do you convert it to AC10?

[Anonymous]

aggie463 wrote:
How do you convert it to AC10?

The Sketch-Up plug-in I mentioned is for 9 only (there is no plug-in for 10 yet; unless someone else knows different?), so you'll need to download that. Open it and convert it to a .pln, and then you can open it in 10.

If you no longer have 9, you'll need to re-install it to do this.
Sorry, but this is the best I can do for you.

[Anonymous]

Hi all,
anybody from Graphisoft care to give us an ETA on the sketchup2archicad plugin update for ac10? It's bad enough that the ac9 version doesn't work, but I guess this must be because of the increased functionality of version 10
(I'm hoping that we'll be able to convert sloped faces to inclined walls as well as merely roofs now, surely?! )

[Anonymous]

Another thing...
I dug up my old educational version of ac9, so I can import from sketchup - no problem there - but of course I can't save from an EDU version and open in ac10 EDU version, can I? And student versions prior to 10 are so crippled as to be useless (ie. no export to .dwg)

[Anonymous]

Anyone?

[Anonymous]

it will seem like forever for the sketch-up .skp file to be converted into ArchiCAD 9 workability.
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Just found out the reason for this (and this is good news!). The person who did the original Sketch-Up file neglected to tell me that there were THREE differently-designed versions of his building on the same freakin' .skp file.

This was the first time I ever worked with SU, so if you work with clients using .skp files, make sure they don't do this to you.