Exporting to DWG

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Permalink Reply by Steven Shorter on September 1, 2011 at 12:29am

David

 

Which version/module of VW and which type of Viewport?

 

Steven

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Permalink Reply by David Lebenthal on September 1, 2011 at 2:23am

VW 2010 and a page with section and plan viewport...

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Permalink Reply by Don Marquardt on September 1, 2011 at 6:17am

Export the SHEET the viewport is on as a dwg. Just follow the choices. Find out what version your engineer is using and use that or one version earlier as the default for yout file save.  Secondly, watch our for your liability in them using the plans you draw, or modifying them. If they just need a drawing over which to lay their designs, use a pdf they can add as a reference but is not modifiable.

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Permalink Reply by Don Marquardt on September 1, 2011 at 6:20am

Also, look at the Nemetschek knowledge base articles and the tech forum over there for help with your roofs. Or post a specific question here. Roofs are funny, frustrating to start with, then simple once you grasp their logic, then frustrating when you try to go "fancy".

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Permalink Reply by Steven Shorter on September 1, 2011 at 7:25am

David

 

The Sheet Layer Viewport will export if you tick the 'Export Viewports as 2D Graphics' option.

 

Regards

 

Steven

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Permalink Reply by Steven Shorter on September 5, 2011 at 1:00am

David

 

Regarding Roofs, Jonathan Pickup has a tutorial for complex roofs, apparently, though you can achieve quite a lot by importing sketchup into later versions of VW.

 

Regards

 

Steven

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Permalink Reply by Paul Maggs on September 7, 2011 at 11:58pm

Can you import sketchup to VW 2011 and if so how?

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Permalink Reply by Steven Shorter on September 8, 2011 at 12:17am

Take a look at

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWep3flfQ0w

 

skip to 2:20 mins to the import bit.

 

VW2011 imports SketchUp 7, I think.

 

Regards

 

Steven

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Permalink Reply by David J. Barici on October 19, 2011 at 5:33pm

yes. also if you use viewports for elevations, use the section viewport tool to make elevations of your model.

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