Acadia Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 A friend of mine made a 3D model in SU and asked me to illustrate it (notes, dimensions, title block etc) in VW. The 3D model-renderings looked very nice but she had trouble extracting clean vectorial sections and elevations. First she saved them as dxf, cleaned them up in Acad and then I imported them in VW. On top of that I had to play with the units to scale it correctly. Does anybody know of a better workflow exchange from SU to VW? Thank you for any advice. Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 You might try having your friend export the SU model to 3DS. Then import the 3DS into VW's. This is a 3d only format so I'm not exactly sure what you will need to do once in VW's. I assume a lot of fiddling. But give it a shot and report back... Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Why not just import the entire model directly from SU and produce Sections & Elevations etc. in VW Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Yes, duh. I had forgotten that we have an "Import SU" command!! Thanks bcd! Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Smiling! Also - if your version of VW cannot import the SU file you can back-save them in SU to a earlier SU version. Quote Link to comment
Acadia Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 Thank you guys! we'll try that but I suppose that's not different than extracting sections and elevations from a VW model, which still requires some cleaning up. Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 No it's not too much different. In order to derive accurate and detailed info from 3d models, you (or your co-workers) will need to model in an accurate and detailed manner... Quote Link to comment
starling75 Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Here is small video. Quote Link to comment
Acadia Posted December 26, 2010 Author Share Posted December 26, 2010 Good point Cipes. This is always true unless you use software that has all the typ. building components already built in requiring less modeling effort. Thanks for the video Starling! Quote Link to comment
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