Tell us about your 2D floorplan to 3D workflows

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Lots to say. Perhaps it needs multiple posts to be truly useful.

  1. All of them PLUS, don’t forget, product info in either DWG/DXF or PDF format that needs to be converted into a component for my larger models. See these posts for examples of the latter:
    Some cool examples of my own - #161 by RTCool
    Some cool examples of my own - #164 by RTCool
    Some cool examples of my own - #201 by RTCool
    Some cool examples of my own - #206 by RTCool
    Some cool examples of my own - #215 by RTCool

  2. Vectorized preferably. DWG into SketchUp, because that’s all there is for vectored art. I’m used to being able to import vectorized PDF into PowerCADD and converting it. In fact, that’s one of my workflows for going from SketchUp or Layout back to PowerCADD: vector based PDF, and yes, it’s accurate enough for dimensioning, but generally DWG is preferred over PDF because it at least has layers. I think PDF’s can have layers, but I’ve never seen one. Raster images in a pinch, and particularly Matchphoto of course with an uncropped photo.

One format that’s probably not on you’re list is the Clipboard. Can you imagine selecting art work in Adobe Illustrator, copying it to the clipboard, switching to SU and then doing a paste and having vectored art imported? At one point, Alfred Scott had that functionality between PowerCADD and Form-Z. No need to even write a file to disk for import.

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