Importing an AutoCad file to SketchUp Pro

The source dwg is definitely not in feet! I tried that for jollies, and the front of the house comes in as almost 580 feet long! I suspect it was cm.

That’s biggggg. I’ll try again and make sure it’s feet.

SketchUp won’t even open now. I double-clicked on it, and got no drawing page.

Never mind.

Clicked Import. Selected the drawing I sent you. Made sure it was Feet. Hit Import. Nothing happened. It was not importing it, just churning.

This is what happened while dragging :slight_smile:

That is strange. I am drawing it from a dimensioned plan, and it isn’t anywhere near that small. I am using AutoCad LT 2013. Would that make any difference?

You have to change your units in AutoCAD to “Architectural” otherwise it will import to a smaller scale.

EDIT: I just looked at your dwg and the units are currently in decimal.

Here is the plan. I verified that the units were architectural.

SketchUp Plan.dwg (97.0 KB)

I just tried importing it again, and it worked this time. Maybe I did have the plan in decimal. I knew I changed it somewhere in the process. Thanks for your assistance.

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