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I'm finding that I cannot export to Sketchup - simply nothing happens. It's as if no command was selected at all and there is no skp file to be found. I made sure that I have the latest update. I also tried saving to SU v.7 as well as 8 - nothing. Purged, rebooted, tried files large and small, you name it - still nothing.

As a check, I tried a model that I created in the spring with Dcad15 and had exported to SU with no problems at that time. When I try to export that aec file to SU using Dcad16, nothing happens. So I'm fairly certain it isn't the drawing files themselves.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!
Melina

If you're trying to export a 2D drawing to SU it won't work - you will need to export it out as a DWG and then import it in SU. If it's a 3D that your sending over to SU, Bob Scott may have some other ideas.

These are definitely 3d models. And, as I said, models that exported normally with 15 and earlier aren't exporting now.

Please note, there is nothing being created by Datacad, so there is nothing to import into Sketchup.

I just performed a test using a exploded and non exploded symbol along with some 2D geometry...everything exported to SU V8 from DC16 just fine for me. IF I start in a clean V6 file. I just tried opening an older file created in V12 in V16 and did the export...no luck.

Yeah, I was working with some older projects when I discovered this. I had hoped that purging & saving the new files in v16, restarting the app, etc. might fool v16, but no.

Exporting to dwg & 3ds works, but that really makes messy models in SU and loses a lot of material/texture info. If I have to, I will do that, but hopefully the Dcad gurus may have some guidance.

Curios if you found a solution to the problem...it appears all the "gurus" are still hungover from turkey dinner
Have you tried opened the old file in V16 and doing a copy/paste into a clean V16 file? Lots of work arounds but that's not really the point.

Robert

I've been in contact with the gurus directly and the issue is being looked at. At the moment, it seems, at least on my system, to be a SketchUp 2013 issue. Neither of my dcad 15 or 16 installations would export until I downgraded back to Sketchup 8. Anything created in SketchUp 2013 won't import into either dcad versions unless saved as version 8. My system/installation matches theirs except the SU version. They are looking into it further.

If they don't post here, I will. Thanks for asking!

I fixed my problem.

I just installed a clean copy of SU 2013 with a fresh download from Trimble. Did some tests, I even tried a large dc5 model (took a few minutes), they all came out fine.

Still not sure why that mattered as Mark Toce verified that the translators are stand-alone and don't require SU to be installed at all. But I'm not about to poke the sleeping bear at this point...

Thanks again for your responses!

Are you able to import/export V16 to Sketchup 2013 now?

Just Export.

Importing is still an issue. Mark Toce verified this. Anything created in SU 2013 has to be saved as a SU version 8 file (or lower) if you want to import it into Datacad, for the time being. I was told they literally just received info from the makers of SketchUp to work on this.

Luckily, a lot of components off the net (warehouse, manufacturer's SU models) are still in v.8 or earlier.