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Importing 3D DWG

Anonymous
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Hi there,

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I am currently pulling out all of my hair. And I'm quite fond of it to be honest, so any help will be greatly appreciated!

I'm currently working on a project where a separate company has sent me a 3D DWG file containing the site.

All well and good, means less modelling for me! Woo!

However, once I import the DWG into Archicad the DWG is an object and therefore cannot be edited any further. Bummer!

Is there anyway that I can import this DWG into archicad and make it act as a mesh which I would normally create in Archicad so I can further edit the model?


I know that I can do Design>import surveyors data to create a mesh, however that only works for .txt or .xyz files.

Any advice?

Thanks

Tom
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Barry Kelly
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If you can upgrade to 16 then you could open the DWG as an object and then convert it to a Morph.
But if you are stuck on 15 then you could try this.

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=183356

Barry.
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