3D Export rant – Function Requests

I do know this has been mentioned to loss of life – I simply wish to rant a bit.

PLEASE – pricey Trimble – give us a straightforward, straight ahead technique to export Blocky kind Geometry into DWG & STP Solids. Actual solids. Not triangulated-Mesh-Somethings. I really feel that there ought to be a approach. Like should you can do away with all of the triangles with the Cleanup2 Extension Sketchup ought to be capable to inform {that a} multi sided planar floor doesn’t must be divided into triangles. I’m positive it’s difficult to program however you simply introduced the whole thing of Sketchup to the iPad so I determine you need to have a number of shiny minds to have the ability to deal with this elementary work-flow drawback.

Level in case – in these footage you see some partitions. these are plain outdated thickened geometries – one thing you narrow from a plank ultimately. There are some cutouts however all in all it’s so simple as 3D Geometry will get. And I can’t get it to export in order that our producer can open it. I might want to redraw EVERYTHING in SolidWorks now to generate correct STEP information that the STEP->CNC converter can use. The DWG Information are ■■■■ as nicely as a result of they only exported “meshed” surfaces and regardless that they’re completely plain meshed surfaces it makes a heck of a distinction to those packages they usually merely received’t settle for them (you may see this particularly nicely should you import it to Rhino than all of the hidden triangulation pops out.

So please, please, please: work in your exporters. It’s not fancy. It’s not shiny. It’s arduous to create glamorous screenshots from that for launch notes – however your neighborhood will thanks for it!!!

Rant over.

Wandbau-LH10-Household-2022-11-19.skp (238.6 KB)
Wandbau-LH10-Household-2022-11-19 3D.dwg (495.3 KB)

I don’t have AutoCad however Autodesk DWG TrueView 2021 doesn’t triangulate the faces so it has in all probability been completed by the Rhino importer.
All of your wall parts should not SketchUp Solids. I neglect the precise workflow, however I appear to recollect with the ability to see SketchUp solids as ACIS solids in AutoCad. Faceted they’re, as retrofitting a NURBS floor on a mesh object is normally not potential.
BTW, there may be a lot much less triangulation should you import the SketchUp mannequin into Rhino straight.

I appear to recall Fusion360 has a instrument to transform/clear imported .skp to one thing .STEP/CNC will play good with.
It’s restricted and may have some small “fingers on” fixing, however from what you posted and what I recall in regards to the instrument, it could do a really good job for the reason that relative simplicity of your file geometry.

Charlie

I agree.
Step information are a normal now and it’s about time Trimble… step up their recreation and supply native export.
I couldn’t care much less for the explanations and technical particulars about nurbs or different varieties of bowel noises (so don’t hassle, and no, STL and OBJ aren’t adequate), so simply get it completed already.

I’m fairly positive nobody will.

Couldn’t assist:
In CAM, considerably. It’s a stable format. SketchUp is a face modeller.

About being “normal”: I’ve been doing CAD and 3D modelling now for 37 years, and I’ve by no means had to make use of or produce a Step file.

Like @Anssi I’ve by no means as soon as been required and even requested to provide a STEP file. Whether or not or not they add this as an export choice, although, it’s fairly clear it’ll by no means be added to the model you’re utilizing.

Not everybody makes use of it only for structure.

Sure. I hardly ever use it for structure.

For data – and future traçability – Stephane opened a thread about step information right here.

Hey, what a coincidence, I work in CAM too!
Since we each work in CAM we each know the file codecs of alternative for job setup and toolpath era are STEP and IGES (however STEP is extensively most popular).
So naturally that’s additionally the file codecs we alternate with prospects and suppliers.

I don’t have Inventor HSM/CAM at house, clearly, so I take advantage of Sketchup to rapidly whip up some concepts apart from utilizing it for my hobbies (woodworking, 3D printing, sheet metallic work). Whichever format you select to export from Sketchup, you all the time find yourself with undesirable artifacts, lacking faces, vertices and so on, and when again within the workplace after importing in Autocad I would like to wash all the things up. Btw, for the interest half, most slicers like Prusa Slicer settle for STEP information straight and it really provides a lot better outcomes than with STL. STL is an archaic and outdated format. Don’t use it.

Now, it’d be good if Sketchup may play together with all people else within the sandbox and import/export STEP information so we may simply work throughout completely different CAD programs and even export to CAM. You realize, like actually each different CAD system is able to.

Not being appropriate with anything is only one approach software program turns into out of date.
STEP is such an apparent alternative I didn’t suppose I’d have to clarify and justify it.

You misinterpret, sorry, I work in structure, not CAM, that’s why I’ve by no means wanted the codecs supported by the likes of Solidworks or Inventor.

please, PLEASE, hassle to do it. clarify, justify

Yeah, I imply, archiCAD doesn’t do it, REVIT doesn’t do it natively nor does autoCAD… you could export the file and reimport in in inventor and reexport it (for autodesk), archicad recommends to export an ifc and use an exterior converter.

proper.