This is a public plea to Trimble. When will sketchup get serious about DWG/DXF export? Why can’t sketchup export DWG as per layer and color with a section cut polyline layer added? While I do much of my documentation in layout, there’s always a need to provide “proper” CAD backgrounds to associates…

[image] Odd_Haakon_Byberg: seems to me that the section tool plugins can add layer info to objects that are being cut, but not the rest of the model. Not true with skalp. Model layers are exported too

Have read down thru this entire thread… Is it entirely naive of me to think that the Sketchup community couldn’t pull enough weight to influence their sub-contractors to move to Sketchup instead of continuing with AutoCAD? Seems like the example that @Sonder has set should be the thing that we are…

An update to the dwg export matrix: I have experimented with skalp, and found that it does provide “tags to layers” and makes closed polylines in the section cut. However, it has the same problem as Curic and Layout (same API?) in that there’s no proper precision, so your axis lines will go to the e…

Thanks, you’ve done really helpful work for the community.

A couple of these absent features would be mandatory: Export DWG Layers from Layout without needing stacked viewports; 100% Accuracy at any model decimal places. This could be solved also by allowing us to define an high accuracy in model, yet the display accuracy of dimensions, leaders, areas and…

Can you describe the stacked viewport method? I don’t get how to set that up.

[image] ShynnSup: Can you describe the stacked viewport method? I don’t get how to set that up. I am not sure about the exact workflow @JQL uses, but it might go like this: Create LayOut layers to correspond to the layers you need in the DWG Put a copy of your SketchUp vector-rendered viewp…

Exactly as @Anssi described. If you need others to work with your export you might want to export without using the export for SketchUp method. That method creates several groups in the DWG. One group for each layer. Those groups are very hard to work with so they have to be exploded in CAD. If yo…

All, we’ve been complaining about this for literally years with no response from trimble. All we get is a bit better inference here, a bit of that there. I’m holding my “owned” versions of SU but I haven’t renewed this year’s subscription. While more costly and far less fun, I’m beginning to really …

DWG Export with layers

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steven.dingyy March 14, 2023, 8:32am 107

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Hey, let us know what you think!

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