removing Block:groups

[bakertony]

I have a scene which consist of lots of buildings from sketchup that were imported as dwg's. the scene is now heavy with thousands of hidden blocks:groups. when i try to delete them or even group them my geometry explodes and moves all over the place. is there a way of removing these without affecting the geometry of the buildings.

[STRAT]

i usually explode all first before importing into my scene. try re-importing into SU or CAD, clean them up in there, then re-import back into your scene.

[bakertony]

thanks strat, thats what i do now with my models from sketchup. however this is a scene i worked on a few months back and ive done too much work on the model in max to revert back. i was hoping there was a way to remove this stuff in max.

[zedish]

There is a plugins from John Seagul called DWG CleanUp but i never try it, it should work fine. I try to explode blocks in cad software or work with it...look at dwg cleanup, i think it should be use full...

 

http://www.jonseagull.com/downloads.shtml#DWGCleanup

[bakertony]

thanks, ive downloaded it. it keeps giving me errors when i run the script though. i'll play around with it though, it looks really useful if i can get it to work.