some blocks not importing

[nitrous]

how come when i import my drawing into sketchup some blocks dont show up. ill attach the autocad file and then it imported into sketchup and the railings dont show up in sketchup. as you can see some of the railings dont show up when imported. any ideas why?

thanks

nitrous'

[nitrous]

any ideas on to why its not importing?

[CADken]

SU, at least in my case, does not import any of my blocks, only after i explode them in AutoCAD do they show up.

[nitrous]

i tried doing that and then when i imported it into su now the curved sides of the rail dont show up :( i dont think sketchup likes this layer at all

[boofredlay]

Yeah, SketchUp does not like blocks. It also does not like polylines that much.

I find that to sucessfully import anything from Autocad to SketchUp you need to do quite a bit of clean up. Plan on re-drawing some elements once in SketchUp, like the curves on your railing.

Typically when I get an Autocad file from an architect or landscape architect I will take it to bare bones. Save as a new file. Then I ask; "what lines do I need so that I can start the push/pull without any glitches." I delete everything else, explode everything left, make sure they are all at 0 z axis (unless I am importing 3d data) then start from there. I also make sure there are no small lines at intersections.

Now I understand you are importing 3d data but your image simple enough that you could start most of it from 2d data.

Hope this helps not confuses.

Cheers.