Can you import sketchup into archicad

Thanks Karl monday I will try again following your instruction. This what I get when I try to import the file. Preview file. Thanks Must have a lot of 3D trees and things from the landscape designer maybe?

I've not seen that message with just architectural things You'll have to open the file in SketchUp to see what's going on and determine either a what you can omit, or b how you can re-save the file in pieces with different elements turned on so that the resulting SKP files have a low enough poly count for the import. If the file is an older version of SketchUp, you can still download SketchUp Make for free to do the above. Make is discontinued after To upload your file, you use the associated free Trimble Connect cloud storage.

Thanks I will try to divide the file in parts, and will see. I wonder if they are working on that file in Sketchup then In the past when we would work together on bigger master plans where there are multiple architect firms and some are using sketchup, they would have a lot of issues importing my ArchiCAD models because sketchup couldn't handle the higher poly count of having all the nice details from window objects and such.

Maybe sketchup has gotten better than ArchiCAD at handling high polycount? Post Reply. Start a new conversation! Create new topic. Related articles. How do you achieve smooth objects? Do you use some other intermediate format? The first a SU screenshot, the next screenshot once imported into ArchiCad…does not look too bad. I had not noticed this before, but now that you mention it, there are faint lines visible and also too few segments in the curves.

I will be posting a number of models I set up in SketchUp which the architect imported into AC for a pharmacy project. I tried modelling these in ArchiCad using the Morph tool, but that drove me up the wall! You see similar apparitions when you import into Vectorworks Spotlight and create objects out of them. In my own practice, i use SU, but have taught myself to use AC because of my work with the architects I collaborate with.

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