I am trying to figure out what is the best process to export just the floor plan line work to the engineer as dwg file. After making a model, I make a group from slice. This gives me the floor plan of the house in 2d as a group. I can then go in and make it graphically more pleasing. I save this a…

I don’t know if this is the best way, but it’s a way (maybe someone will come up with something better). Right-click your slice group and Make Component. Then right-click the new component and Save As… This will save the component as a .skp file, which you can then open by itself and export. -Gull…

Thanks Gully, That seems to work easily and quickly. Charlie

[image] Gully_Foyle: Right-click your slice group and Make Component. Then right-click the new component and Save As… This will save the component as a .skp file, which you can then open by itself and export. The currently active section can be exported directly (File menu>Export>Section slic…

Actually I have just been tasked with the same request and I am certainly no fan of DWGS. But in examining various export options I think the EXPORT 3D / Dwg option from the SU model is the best The reason is that it seems to export / respect your - SU Layers SU components / groups SU Text SU …

[image] gsharp1953: I think the EXPORT 3D / Dwg option from the SU model is the best … One downside - Circles and curves are still segmented [TRIMBLE needs to fix this export limitation] It seems you’re missing something… [image] Exporting to .dwg and .dxf. - curves? Sketch…

Sorry to come to this so late. I’m a newbie to SU Pro and trying to export a fairly large renovation model to dwg for an AutoCad user. When I do that, the export starts but Sketchup crashes unceremoniously after a few seconds. No file appears in the destination folder at all. Same result for dxf. I …

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Geo June 8, 2016, 1:13pm 6

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