importing polylines with z values. possible ?

[Anonymous]

For a long time we've been wanting to import dwg files with terrain lines and rooftop lines so that they retain their z values once imported into archicad.

In previous version of AC this has not been possible, but someone on a graphisoft helpline suggested that with AC16 this could actually be done.

We have used AC16 for a while now, without any success in this regard.

If you have any experience with this, please let us know 😉

[David Maudlin]

digitaljazz:

Have you tired opening the DWG file as an Object? This should import the DWG as a 3D object.

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David

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, we've tried that as well.


Opening the dwg as an object does not give us editable lines. Yes, it's viewable in 3D - but it's a huge task to trace/morph it into something that we can work on further.

That way it's just as fast to import the dwg as flat 2D and build everything from scratch.

[Srinivas]

By any chance can the Mesh Generator could be used, if you can export the polylines in AutoCAD to a text file?

Here are some samples on this forum.

[David Maudlin]

digitaljazz wrote:
Opening the dwg as an object does not give us editable lines. Yes, it's viewable in 3D - but it's a huge task to trace/morph it into something that we can work on further.

Once the dwg file has been imported as an object, the object can be converted to a Morph, which is editable.

David

[Anonymous]

You can try with this object on ArchiCAD Object Depository: