Dick Bailey

So you did, sorry for not crediting this to you. Thank you so much for all your work, I think an hour of your time was very generous. I'd wrongly assumed it would be just an 'Open' and 'Save As ...' task. You've clearly gone to great lengths for me which I greatly appreciate and will be a great help. I think this will be quite adequate for my purposes. I'm afraid at 72 I'm not as agile on unfamiliar systems as I used to be. Cheers 🍻

Hi, Barkest. Thanks for offering to look at converting this for me. Here's a link to the file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wxt9dstp3hj02qk/house with all walls and stairs_9-Backup-20130508040357.vwx?dl=0 Further up this topic Micheal John Williams said "Vectorworks advised to export to Collada and then import into SketchUp." which Zoomer endorsed saying "I also had positive experience with DAE export for 3D Exports." and Neil Barman added "I would recommend exploring Collada exports. This is how I have exported in the past to Sketchup (and other applications) and the recipients have reported the best results with Collada files. A folder is created and within it is a .dae file of my Vectorworks model. That .dae file imports into Sketchup fine."

I Googled, "VW file viewer" and found the viewer so I was able to use it to review the files and I found I only need one 59,659 KB file which contains the following objects shown in the organisation dialog box. Can this be converted?

Thanks for your reply. Edit. I do need the basic Walls, windows, doors, floors, stairs, ceilings and Roof, but it would also be good if the other items in the file were included. As you'll see from my second reply below I've discovered one file contains everything.

My daughter used VW once 6 yrs ago for a project at Uni creating 19 .vwx files (520mb) of the rooms in our house. Her Educational licence expired long ago but I'd personally like to use those files in something like Sketchup to visualise a conversion idea but I can't justify the expense of VW just solely export the file in another format. I wondered if anyone can advise or assist me in resolving this dilemma?