Best way to import and use DWG lines as model

[Anonymous]

The goal is to take a DWG and convert it into a normal working AC model.

I am currently XREFing the DWG and just redrawing over the xref as a trace ref.

I used the highlight click function to speed up the process but for every single dwg line it makes a few odd walls that have to be clean up and or deleted. -too slow.

what is the best way you have come up with?

thanks.

[Anonymous]

By "highlight" I assume you mean the spacebar/magic wand method. This will always try to find continuous contours so if the DWG lines connect at the ends you can end up with more than you want. (Sometime in the distant past the magic wand was governed by the geometry settings of the tool so you could apply walls etc singly. I still miss this feature.)

If the magic wand is not getting the results you want it's probably easiest to just draw to the snap points on the DWG. Keep in mind though that lots of DWGs are not suitable for tracing directly/ A drawing only has to be accurate enough to look good on paper. A model gets flaky fast if there are 0.005° and 1/64" discrepancies in the reference drawing.

Much of the time I find it better to use PDFs for reference and draw to the noted dimensions.

[Mats_Knutsson]

Matthew wrote:
A model gets flaky fast if there are 0.005° and 1/64" discrepancies in the reference drawing.

Totally agree. Check thoroughly before that the dwg is exact before you trace the dwg!