Differences in professions I suppose? I’m guessing you are an Architect?
My background is Industrial Design but I primarily work as a 3D Designer for Environment and Experience Design for Interiors, Retail, Exhibits, and Events. I mostly need to import PDF plans for the Interior and Retail projects.
Most the other 3D Designers I know, like myself, only have to deal with receiving the documentation and then making pretty pictures from it. For the parts of my original creations that need 2D docs created, I hand off my models as a DWG to a CAD guy in the estimating, production, and/or engineering teams. Let them deal with that tedium while I focus solely on Design. I believe most of them are still using AutoCAD at the shops my work goes through.
General contractor. I get a large number of document sets that are just raster exported out of Revit. The sets are like…200-500 pages a lot of the time, and VERY rarely are they vector.
Revit can output vector only if the view has no visible raster features like textures or shadows. So, for instance, elevations almost always come out as raster.
We receive all of our prints from our detailers in PDF format, whether it be a single part such as a plate or an angle, or a full assembly such as a beam, column, handrail, tower, etc. That adds up to hundreds of prints per job a lot of the time. All of them are vector and can be imported as geometry in softwares that are capable of importing PDF files i.e. Vcarve, Autocad, etc.
That’s weird. Almost every set of CDs we get from Revit are vector. In fact I opened up a recent project and went to an elevation view and exported it to PDF and in Illustrator it was a vector. Mine are not residential if that matters.
(Lol - apparently this is the shrug for the forum)
I work in large commercial and don’t seem to see vector PDF’s much.
It really doesn’t matter though - the point is that there’s no reason SketchUp shouldn’t also support raster PDF import as an image. I just want to make sure that I’m communicating the adding JUST vector PDFs doesn’t fully solve the problem here.
Bringing a raster PDF in the same way you would a TIFF, PNG, or JPEG is still an important feature.
Same here, all commercial, one of our last ones built was 117k gsf and all of the PDFs in the record set turned over to us were all vectors. Oh I agree, not having the ability to use vector data in SU AND Layout is silly.
(Lol - apparently this is the shrug for the forum)