3d dwg import looses data and get streemly heavy

[orlando Teixeira]

Hello ppl,

i am importing an 3d model of a house made in autocad that as 21mb.

Than when i import it thakes forever to load and after it got 186mb and its so heavy that i could not even move the model.

Another thing is that it looses some of the exterior walls.

I thing its because the roof tile is made of tile solids seperatly (sorry if this seems confuse) but even after i removed the roof and imported the model back again everything loaded allright except for 3 walls.

Can you help me or tell me what is the best way to imprt 3d from autocad?

thx in advanced

[cad@sggsa]

Would making the roof a symbol not sort this out??

On the walls not being there, are you sure all the classes are on in VW??

[orlando Teixeira]

hello cad@sggsa

hmmm, after importing select all roof classes and make a simbol? i didnt try that yet no.

Yes pretty sure, all on. when i tryied without the roof it loaded 99.5%of the model.

i am gona try that now.

anyway is there a "perfect settings" in autoccad and vect to import 3d from autocad ?

thx in advanced

Edited November 12, 2008 by orlando Teixeira

[orlando Teixeira]

hello back again

well ,

i made a block in autocad of the full roof and it loaded much faster in vectorworks than the first time. now i can change view on drawing but when i try to render ..... it just stays a long time and do not render anything. 100% of the times i got to shutdown vectorworks....

is there any way to surpass this ?

thx in advanced

[orlando Teixeira]

ok let it be like it is.

i will try to build the same structure in vectorworks

thx anyway for the help.....

Edited November 18, 2008 by orlando Teixeira