Google SketchUp Tips and Tricks: CAD and Plugins

A quick way to check the scale of imported CAD plans is to drag a component into your model. To accurately rescale plans in Sketchup, measure a known distance with the tape measure tool, then type in the correct measurement. Hit "Enter" and click "Yes" to resize the model. Blocks from CAD become components in Sketchup, adding a tree to one component will add trees to all the other similar components throughout the model. I usually explode it once so it's not double grouped. To do this, right click on the component in the component browser window to "select instances", then right click explode. I like to use a plugin called "Randor" to make the trees look less identical. This randomly rotates and scales the trees. If you want to change to a different tree, right click to "select instances", then right click on a different tree and choose "replace selected".

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[SLCxDeMoNz]

this is usless if you dont have cad!

[eseeify]

@RomeBoarderr , save your cad drawings to older version like save as cad 2000, then you can import it to your sketch up...

[Apocalypsesnowboards]

@RomeBoarderr I had some same porblem with autocad 2010 i save differnet version of dwg (anything but Dwg 2010) that solved it,

this maybe helps you

sorry for bad english

[RomeBoarderr]

I have AutoCad 2006 and Sketchup 7.1 but when I download the Plugin for windows, for importing dwg/dwn files, Sketchup doesn't see the dwg/dwn files...

Can someone help me pzl?

[phambatatthanh]

nice tut guy! how cn i download that plugins!? thanks!