Import and Cleanup CAD Files in SketchUp

Even import CAD files (.dwg/.dxf) and find that it's hard to close edges, fill faces, organize layers and tags? If so then join Eric where he'll share a few of his tips for organizing and cleaning up imported CAD linework so you can get modeling in no time.

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[pipertime]

Great learning video! I just imported a dwg file and at first glance it looked like a scrambled mess. I can now do something with it after watching this video. Thanks

[nikitasmolin]

found this out while actually practicing architecture in the office by pure intuition and experience, but still good stuff. thanks.

[keggyification]

Great video Eric, I don't have much to do with CAD in Sketchup these days but you sure know how to make things interesting.

[kheredrain]

Thank you for this video, as I am using a lot the import of CAD files in my process, now I won't lose too much time to flatten everything as I usually do with Scale tool. As usual very useful, Thx

[johanflodkvist]

Great stuff, could realy come in handy for my work.
Tip for a new video topic: Been looking for a good workflow to make a terrain volume from cad contour lines, not going over to mesh, but keeping the lines as extruded surfaces.

[Mattsana]

Man this was excellent. I haven't used SketchUp professionally until now. (Just hobby for over 10 years). Just had a few projects where this would come in handy. Thanks mate!

[jamesogston]

🎉nice and maybe when you're working with cad drawings that normally change from time to time is to keep a copy of the imported CAD file untouched as a tagged locked unique component in the model to compare newer CAD revisions against the current model We do that alot using component reload so we always have a record of the latest CAD revision in our working model.

Thanks

[keyable]

Could you make a video on how to import a Coordinated CAD file into right Coordinates?

[kakha]

great eric,
please do some tutorial about generating report function in SU, I'm sure it'll be usefull lesson for many SU users.
thanks in advance

[TroyCurry]

This was a great tutorial. Thank you. The part that I’m struggling with is getting CAD drawings back out of SketchUp. Do you have any advice on best practices for when we need to take our SketchUp models and convert them into 2DCAD drawings for consultants to use?

[davids]

I am still mystified why layers were renamed to tags.