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| Posted by Trav at Sep 21, 2010, 7:16:31 AM |
Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG filesOver the past several months I have been using Sweet Home 3D to create draft plans for my home renovation & would like to send the files to an acquaintance who is studying architecture so that he can view my files using his CAD program. He said that if I send the files to him in .dwg format he would be able to open them using his software. Is it possible to save Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files? If so how is it done? Thank you. |
| Posted by hansmex at Sep 21, 2010, 8:26:39 AM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files Trav, The short answer is "No". The long answer is "Yes". 1 - you export your plan using 3D view --> Export to OBJ format 2 - you then import your OBJ file in a program like; Blender; 3 - in Blender you export your model to DWG format. Be prepared that you may loose some details, but it's worth a try. Hans ---------------------------------------- Hans new website - under constuction hansdirkse.info |
| Posted by Trav at Sep 22, 2010, 1:52:26 AM |
Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG filesMany thanks Hans. I will give it a go. Paul |
| Posted by Puybaret at Sep 22, 2010, 7:28:24 AM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files Paul, please tell us how it worked out after your tests. ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by whippetsleek at Sep 22, 2010, 4:51:40 PM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files I have used both Blender, and Sketch up to make obj files into dwg files, and they both work very nicely. Sketch though has to have a plug in downloaded for it from the Google plug in page, in order to import and export the file formats. Blender does a better job, but it harder to learn to use. ----------------------------------------  |
| Posted by Trav at Nov 13, 2010, 3:08:59 AM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files I have a 64 bit PC and it appears I am not able to use Blender at this stage. The following has been taken directly from the Blender website. Windows 64 bits (no installer yet) Blender 2.49b Zip Archive (13.5 MB) Requires Windows XP/Vista/7 64bit USA | Germany | NL 1 | NL 2 Note: This version requires Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistribution Package (x64). (about 5MB) The 64bit release of Blender for Windows is still in a development stage: it doesn't support all possible features yet, like FFMPEG, OpenAL and Quicktime. |
| Posted by nicksoper at Aug 14, 2012, 6:59:00 PM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files Hi All, I too have had the same issue, and this thread pops up in the search results for the problem. I found a fairly simple work around. If you export the files to .SVG, then convert to a .PDF (Adobe Illustrator can do it), there is an online tool that converts the .PDF to a .DWG file. This is the link to the online tool http://www.convertpdftoautocad.com/ Just so you know, I don't work for or own the website, the upload failed in Safari (I had to use Firefox) and I also don't know how good a job it does. I sent the file to an architect to check. If it's rubbish I will reply, but if I don't then give the method a go. ============================================ @hansmex on a separate note, I could not get the latest version of Blender to export to OBJ, and it seems the link to the plugin to extend the functionality to export to DWG on the Blender site is broken :( |
| Posted by Trav at Jan 23, 2013, 11:37:12 PM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files Hi Nick Please advise how to export an .sh3d file to .SVG. As I do not have Adobe Illustrator is there an alternative way of converting the .SVG file to a .PDF file? Thank you Trav |
| Posted by Trav at Jan 23, 2013, 11:57:59 PM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files Hi again Nick I have discovered how to export the file to .SVG, but still need the other information if that is possible. Many thanks Trav |
| Posted by Puybaret at Jan 24, 2013, 8:57:09 AM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files What about using PDFCreator? It acts like a printer but the printed result is a PDF file. ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by Trav at Feb 4, 2013, 8:28:22 AM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files Thank you for your response Puybaret. Based on the various responses I have received to my origianl question, do you think I will achieve my goal if I do the following? 1. Convert my .sh3d file to a .SVG file using the converter built into Sweet Home 3D. 2. Convert the .SVG file to a .PDF file using PDF Creator. 3. Then convert the .PDF file to a .DWG file using the tool http://www.convertpdftoautocad.com/ as suggested by nicksoper on 14 August. |
| Posted by Puybaret at Feb 4, 2013, 8:45:12 AM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files Maybe it would be a good idea to think about the whole process? Are you sure you need DWG files? If yes, what for? Do you need the 3D or not in that DWG file? Because there's no 3D information in a SVG file (only the 2D plan). ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by Trav at Feb 4, 2013, 11:20:22 AM |
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Re: Saving Sweet Home 3D files as DWG files I will need to speak to the acquaintence I referred to in my first post. He is now a qualified architect. He originally told me he would need me to be able to convert my house plans to .DWG files for him to be able to use them. I am assuming this is still the case. My idea was to provide him with a very accurate plan of my house. It may not be important for him to see the 3D version as I guess he will be able to see that in his own CAD program. By providing him with the detailed plan it would save him having to take all the measurements of my existing home layout. I hope this is clear Puybaret. |
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