Doc,
Your very welcome and glad to hear things fell into place for you. Great exercise!
Doc,
Your very welcome and glad to hear things fell into place for you. Great exercise!
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At the risk of beating a dead horse here...As we live, we learn (or so I hope).
The real secret to doing this is really in the import DXF process. Had I been more persistant about the the autoConnect I would have been able to cut out all that mess with connecting lines and all that (although it was a great learning experience)! As it turns out by adjusting the tolerance for connecting I was able to close the entire figure in the import process.
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Doc
Doc, with all due repect, that's why I mentioned a different dxf/stl exporter for sketchup. Why futz around with something if it can be removed entirely by using a different plug-in?
I should point out that I work in SAE, so your metric may make a difference, although I don't see how it would.
Good luck!
Last edited by bluecobra; 07-13-2012 at 01:02 PM.
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Mark,
I am using Sketchup 8 pro, so it has a built in export to DXF and STL. I have played with plug-in as well. It is a great plug-in and I appreciate it! However, it did have the same behavior (for me), again the cure is/was to use the Auto-connect Slider. Additionally, the plug-in was smarter about the scaling factor, no adjustment was needed. It would seem the built in export confuses millimeters and centimeters (or I am missing a step, but geez that would never happen! , so the difference of a decimal point makes sense and is really not a big deal, just adjust the scale factor and all is well. Thanks for the follow-up. Still scaling the learning curve on Sketchup and Designer, but it is fun!
Regards,
Doc
Already, one more advantage to the Export plug-in for Sketchup (again, thanks Mark!): You are able to select specific elements you want exported, where the built-in exports ports the entire sketch, regardless of what is Selected.
Regards,
Doc