Yes Yes and Yes. We are spending time on make SUmodel → ACAD plan set a possibility. May I ask are you currently in architect or interior design industry? If we can invite you to be our test user that will be very helpful
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I am curious about the accuracy of the exported geometry in your new plugin.
Exporting geometry from sketchup natively, despite all its shortcomings, is 100% accurate. From Layout, and other things that I have tried, there is this 0,001 percent change in size… That thing drives some engineers crazy :-).
Now we automatically process by the accuracy of 0.1, which means if you have a dimension of 12.11 it will be drawn as 12.1. We are now developing UI for user to control the accuracy, so if you want 1000.00001 to be 1000 you can set the accuracy to 1
I hope this solve your problem
It sure seems like all my problems in dwg export will be solved. I´m excited to test it.
There are loads of other dwg import / export features I can think of, but they are more on the convenience side of it, so luxury items 
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it would be really cool to be able to add map coordinates in order to make the dwg having world coordinates, so adding a set value x,y to all coordinates. Sounds like a thing that would be easy to do. It would be cool to be able to save this value somehow to the exports for a particular drawing.
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It would also be cool to be able to control the Lt-scale of the export, so that hidden lines appear visually without opening the dwg and testing / resetting it.
SketchUp has an internal tolerance of only 0.001 inch. Any vertices that are closer are merged.
Hi Francisquitof, I’ve sent you the Beta-Test version and your account. I hope you receive it in your email, Please check it. I am looking forward for your feedback!
Hi JQL, Thanks so much for following this post. I’ve sent you an email of the installation package and your Beta-test account. The SKP Plugin will be released soon. Thank you for always being supportive!
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Hi Nico, if you’ve filled the sheet. The installation package and your Beta-test account should be sent to your mailbox! Plz check. And thank you for giving us suggestions!
Hi Guidepro, if you’ve filled the application sheet. The installation package and your Beta-Test account should be sent to your mailbox already! Please check, Thank you so much for telling us what you want. We are looking forward to your future feedback!
Hi Odd_Haakon_Byberg. Thank you for giving us suggestions. The Beta-Test package and your account are sent to your mailbox!! And we are seriously considering your advices for future feature. Thank you again for giving us golden suggestions
Hi @CoraZ thanks for letting me in, but I’m going to skip it, sorry.
I don’t want to have AutoCAD installed in my computer, as I would have no use for it.
I have a single suggestion for you though: do not avoid groups with too many faces. Those might have to be the groups that we want to export, even if they will make the computer look frozen. What you could do, instead, is to perform the face amount check and ask the users if they want to proceed with the export.
I’m curious about how this will work when it’s fully on Sketchup side and we can simply export DWGs to send to engineers and other collaborators.
Thanks again for your work, which looks consistent and I wish you luck.
Thank you for your suggestion. OK we will do it in the way! The SU version will be released in the next several months ~
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hi
I did get an email with an installer, but it was for windows. I´m on a Mac.
Or did I miss something?
Edit: I understand I missed something… The installer is for a autocad plugin, not an sketchup plugin. Will it work on an old 2006 installation ?
More edits: I´ll wait for the SU version, as I see your planning for that to come in a few months.
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Interesting. But all the more reason to not change 4000 mm to 4,0001 mm in the export, as things get “quantised” into these steps in the model. And SU does not do that to the export, but Layout does :-), and also dwg exports from SU using Scalp.
In another thread, as far as I can remember, it was claimed sketchup uses the same double precision floating point calculations as other CAD software, but I guess that does not necessarily conflict with having a cap on the smallest “steps” in the model.
I have certainly experienced that its easier to model accurately when not being too far from origo, and the same in Autocad, and I guess that is because also floating point calculations of xyz coordinates have a limit to how fine-grained they can be when much of the values in the “world” coordinates are used to determine the distance from origo.
Some of this is due to floating point error.
Rounding to a desired number of decimal places is important in exports.
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Oh-,that was more complicated than I thought…
anyway, my point is that SU produces a dwg that does not give any accuracy difference in autocad, it has the same geometry exactly, no matter how many decimals I measure in autocad.
Not so from layout.
Why not try my extension? It’s already have an export dxf function with precise, separate lines by SketchUp tags, hatches by Curic, ACI colors for layers, also maintain SketchUp 's model origin and units.
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SU version comming soon. I got some beta-testers mentioned that they work on Layout all the time and Layout is for final construction drawings. So they also need to export all text / dimension in Layout. That is very time consuming so I might need to ask you guys also. Is that a common practice to do the construction docs in Layout? Is export layout text /dim a powerful feature and worth time developing?
SU version comming soon. I recently need some advice. Some user mention Layout text & dimension also need to be exported cuz a lot of architects on SU also use Layout for final construction docs. That will take a lot time. And I want some advice from you guys! Is that worth developing!?
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I use Layout for final documentation. It’s main fail is that it doesn’t export SKP layer info from viewports to DWG. How would you be able to export texts, dimensions and labels from Layout to CAD if it doesn’t support plugins?
It would probably be easier to create tools for those objects in sketchup, show them in scenes and export them to CAD and Layout.