Importing AutoCAD files

SketchUp Pro
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Same failure with the cube.dwg in SketchUp 2021. I have to exit for now. Enjoy the rest of your Friday night! I will try reinstalling SketchUp 2022 later tonight.

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Can you confirm which SketchUp that was? I see a bugsplat just now from SketchUp 2021, but nothing new for 2022.

If you are using 2021, have you tried 2022?

Never mind, the 2022 report showed up.

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Mid afternoon Sat here.

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Check in later, hold onto hope, itā€™ll get sorted.

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Cool, how is tomorrow? Nice day? Iā€™m looking forward to it.

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Well that is weird that the crash was in 2021. I swear I was using 2022 that time. But anyway, I have tried again in 2022 and I get the same failure. Both 2021 and 2022 are the same for me in terms of not being able to import.

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I see that there was a spike of crashes like you saw. When people send them in they usually add no useful information like you did. The only other person to add something useful said ā€œafter refresh of driver for 3Dā€. As that isnā€™t something that would normally happen, I wonder if he meant 3DX (Space Mouse and so on). Do you use a Space Mouse?

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I use an Apple Trackpad. I usually try to send a description of what I was doing when the program crashes. Sometimes I may say too much, depending on how much stress the crash adds. :grimacing:

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You were better than most!

His problem may not apply to you then. I think, if you have any importing to do before Monday, ask us to do it. Then I will ask colleagues to look at your crash report, and think about the blank DWG import too.

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It would be great if someone could import and repost the TOPO.dwg file. If what I need is not in there, then I am done importing for now.

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Oh, I see TOPO as a SketchUp V2021 file above. Thanks.

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Thatā€™s the one I did back here.

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And the one called ImportBox is the topo file, but it is apparently different.

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Curious that. Visually they look the same, but the file size is different. I bet that means something.

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Thatā€™s what I meant earlier when you said they were different, Iā€™m thinking you were looking at a different file.

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  • In AutoCAD run the FLATTEN command, maybe more than once. This should bring every vertex down to z:0.

  • Donā€™t import the suppled drawing, youā€™ll potentially get a load of hidden stuff in locked/hidden layers, instead do this: Select what you want to import and then use the WBLOCK command to write out the selection to a new file, then import that file into SU.

The stay z axis stuff your seeing in AutoCAD is legendary, itā€™s stupidly easy to end up creating it by accident.

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Have you tried inserting in LayOut?

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Like everyone else here apart from the OP, I regularly import DWG files without problem. Iā€™m on a Mac like the OP and have been for many years.

The OPā€™s profile says that she is an architect that has been using SU since 2006. And yet the first line of her first post reads:

It is quite hard to credit that she has been using SU for 15 years without being able to import DWGs, but maybe she has been using workarounds of some kind (3rd party importers? Who knew?). I couldnā€™t operate as a building designer if SU was unable to import DWGs relatively easily.

All very odd.

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If something fails, an external plugin that has been used always might be the culprit, as @simoncbevans mentions, thats why I would try if inserting in LayOut works, since that app doesnā€™t have extensions.

Next step would be quiting SketchUp and then removing the SharedPreferences in the user library.

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This is what I got in LO:
Untitled 5.layout (382.7 KB)
No problem.