Hey, what is up nation?
In this session I'm going to teach you the fastest way
to convert your AutoCAD DWG drawings to 3d models in Sketchup.
I'm going to import my DWG, it's important to note that this is currently
a pro only feature, so if you don't have the trial or SketchUp Pro, you currently
can't do that, but I do have a video to show you sort
of a workaround to that, so you can check the description below if that's
something you're interested in doing. You can see here my DWG imported super tiny,
this looks like a hotel for microorganisms, so we're gonna have to
change that. What I'm gonna do is explode this, just so that the geometry, sort of
like settles in to Sketchup. It sort of sounds weird, but it's what I
feel like is happening. And then I'm gonna choose the tape measure tool and
measure one of my doorways. Doorways are a pretty good thing to go off of because
typically there are a standard size, so this is about 16 inches wide. I don't
know many people that could fit through that, so I'm going to change this to 36
inches, it asked me if I want to resize the model and I'm gonna say yes, please,
and then choose zoom extents, delete my guide here that I accidentally created,
zoom in some more, choose my tape measure tool again just to double-check, you can
see that this is 3 feet, which is what I have. Now over on the right hand side I
have a my default tray open and the layers flyout is pulled down, and I have
these layers that came in. You want to make sure that if you're exporting from
AutoCAD that your layers are sort of set up in a way that makes sense so there's
a lot of like extra stuff in here that I don't need, and I just download this off
of a website, so it's in a different language, so I don't actually know what
these layers are, so I'm just gonna go through and click on these and see what
I don't need. So probably most of these layers I don't need, looks like that's
the money Muro is the money one, and that actually has most of the walls on it,
looks like I'm missing a couple of lines there, but when I you can see
when I drew that line it was completing, now what happens is like through the
layer system in Sketchup is it still like reading all that information on the
other layers, even though I can't see it, so I just want to get rid of it. So what
I'm gonna do here is just delete each layer, I'm gonna select this and if for
whatever reason you're doing this later in the project you may want to save as
and just make sure you're not deleting anything important, and if you are that
you can reinforce it later. So I'm gonna delete these contents, then shift-click
on these four, so that I can delete all of them at once. Make sure you're
actually deleting that stuff and not moving it to the home layer, and then
I'm gonna delete this one, but I'm not actually gonna delete, I'm just gonna
move it to the default layer. Okay, so I just have a couple little things that I
need to clean up, and that's pretty typical with this whole process, there
may be some cleanup you have to do, but it's much easier, and you can see I
already have a few phases, so that's perfect! And now what I want is the rest
of these to be faces, but not actually, I have to draw them. So I'm gonna do a
little bit of a cheat, gonna make this a group. Hit M for move, and then hold the up
arrow key to lock to the blue axis so that that's moving vertically, I'm gonna
hit R to make a rectangle tool, S to scale this and just make it pretty
ginormous, and see what I have here. Select my group that I just made with my
plan on it, and then select the drape tool, and drape that on the surface I
just created. Now what this does, is it makes it so that all of those things
that I just created are now groups. And I didn't have to like redraw stuff, so if I
hit E for the erase tool, and just quickly erase, you can see that I have
essentially in my plan. Now if I hit P for a push tool, I can extrude this, let's
say, our ceiling is eight feet, so I hit eight feet in
there, and extrude that up eight feet. Now what I have to do is just double click
on all these and I'll extrude all of these walls up eight feet, so I only have
to do that once, oops, we just zoom extents here, it looks like I have
something off to the side, I think that's my scale figure. Zoom extents again, there we go.
P, eight feet, just double click, and it
will extrude all those eight feet, so I have a pretty quick layout of the spaces,
now you want to go in and you want to add your doors, so typically doors are
six foot eight, that's a standard coming here, now what I'm gonna do is I'm going
to select this little top part for the door and I'm just going to copy it
everywhere that I have a door. Now I'm not like a hundred percent familiar with
this project, so I'm gonna just assume where some of these doors are.
And then you only need to do this on one side of the door, and I'm hitting M for
move and then the control key on PC to make a copy. Yes, I'm not exactly sure
what this is, but I think it's a bathroom. And then what you do with your doors is
because you have all those little lines already in there at the right height you
can just hit P for the push/pull and then just drag it to where you need it.
Obviously, do the same thing for the windows, if whatever windows are at the
same height, you would just draw the bottom, and this helps you like quickly
get what you're looking for. And you don't have to go through and like
retrace over your plan or anything like that, you just sort of use what you have
already drawn, and go from there. Take it if there's any sort of cleanup
that you need to do, like these extra lines, just hit E for the eraser tool and
just click that, I know they erase those lines, if for whatever reason you click
one of those lines and the whole face disappears, maybe you accidentally
selected the face, or what you may need to do is just ctrl click and that will
hide the line, and not actually delete it. So if I open hidden geometry you can see
that lines there, I don't actually want it there, because I don't need it and
Yeah, so hopefully this helped, if you thought this video was helpful, please
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