maya dwg problems

cat · October 8th, 2004

Hi,

I´ve some beginner problems with dwg-files in Maya 6. I was successfull in importing the dwg file of an medieval chapell but in Maya I only have a load of square shapes, acad points, polylines and stuff. It looks very strange and with some fantasy you can recognice the shape of the chapell. How can I manipulate this strange shapes? I just can select them but thats all. I would prefer to convert them into polygons. Can anybody helb me?

MunCHeR · October 25th, 2004

What did the dwg file come from? I havce had wierd stuff from a dwg file exported from datacad, since the program tries to make a 3d model on the fly i had some curves extruded to make walls in + and - x axis so it was a complete botchup, also check some of your import options and check your clipping plane on your camera attribute editor, should be about .001 to 10000 for example and also I import dwg files usually at a scale of .001 or .0001 not the default 1.

Cheers

MunCH

speedline · November 21st, 2004

Cat, I had the same problem for a cad drawing project imported on maya. If you push the "3" key you'll see your lines be more soft and sharp. I did some extruding operations with my lines but the faces result was very bad and not manageable. At the end I had to re-draw all the lines with Maya ones, snapping on the cad lines imported. If you do like this at the end you'll have a "light" model in Maya.
You could try with Polytrans program, but I don't know if it works good for you.
Good luck!!

LunaCyborg · March 12th, 2005

A good way to resolve problems of dwg files is opening them in Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand and then convert them in an Adobe Illustrator 8 eps file. They will come as just one group to better use it for modelling in maya

October 8th, 2004	#1 (permalink)
cat Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Austria Age: 28 Posts: 1 Name: iris mairer	maya dwg problems Hi, I´ve some beginner problems with dwg-files in Maya 6. I was successfull in importing the dwg file of an medieval chapell but in Maya I only have a load of square shapes, acad points, polylines and stuff. It looks very strange and with some fantasy you can recognice the shape of the chapell. How can I manipulate this strange shapes? I just can select them but thats all. I would prefer to convert them into polygons. Can anybody helb me?

October 25th, 2004	#2 (permalink)
MunCHeR Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Australia Age: 38 Posts: 2 Name: Brett Morgan	Re: maya dwg problems What did the dwg file come from? I havce had wierd stuff from a dwg file exported from datacad, since the program tries to make a 3d model on the fly i had some curves extruded to make walls in + and - x axis so it was a complete botchup, also check some of your import options and check your clipping plane on your camera attribute editor, should be about .001 to 10000 for example and also I import dwg files usually at a scale of .001 or .0001 not the default 1. Cheers MunCH

November 21st, 2004	#3 (permalink)
speedline Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Rome Age: 38 Posts: 23 Name: Roberto Sacco	Re: maya dwg problems Cat, I had the same problem for a cad drawing project imported on maya. If you push the "3" key you'll see your lines be more soft and sharp. I did some extruding operations with my lines but the faces result was very bad and not manageable. At the end I had to re-draw all the lines with Maya ones, snapping on the cad lines imported. If you do like this at the end you'll have a "light" model in Maya. You could try with Polytrans program, but I don't know if it works good for you. Good luck!!

March 12th, 2005	#4 (permalink)
LunaCyborg Junior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Barranquilla, Colombia Age: 48 Posts: 23 Name: Ivan Pedraza	Re: maya dwg problems A good way to resolve problems of dwg files is opening them in Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand and then convert them in an Adobe Illustrator 8 eps file. They will come as just one group to better use it for modelling in maya

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