ACAD Polylines into C4D? STRAT, U there??

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Hi, I'm trying to get some polyllines from ACAD 2002 into C4D v.8.2 for use to attach splines for top and bottom of walls - the walls are very free form and a lot like slilghtly melted chocolate. They are OLD mud adobe and are already done in ACAD. Strat, others, how would you do this? I thought I'd loft them in C4d, then slice-n-dice and hyper nurb 'em and adjust the thing for edge.point, etc weights as needed. What do you think? Just need to get those p-lines there first.

Thank you,

[STRAT]

ur out of luck im afraid. before you proceed any further, read this important post -

 

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=148046&highlight=STRAT

 

(sorry for lack of pics, only i cleaned up my server recently)

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Thanks STRAT, great thread! My sentiments exactly for a couple of years now.

 

Well I have previously written to Maxon about exactly the lack of communication between the 2 softwares – Cinema and ACAD. Their indirect response to me was only to make some plugin for ARCHICAD, which is nice, but of no use to me or a lot of ACAD users. I can only speculate what a great increase of sales might have been for Cinema. Such a plug for ACAD must be nearly imposible, as so many use Cinema but none has shown up yet. So I have just finally ordered my copy of VIZ 2005 to be used with V-Ray as soon as I can posibly learn it. Im looking forward to it too. The community seems quite nice – besides being architecturally oriented. But it has not arrived yet and I need to get this thing done for a client LONG before I can learn VIZ.

 

I just recently read that you use ACAD and Cinema, so I thought to drop you this note/post. Thanks for your quick reply – I have a lousy temporary solution which is to give the p-lines a z-thickness (1/32”-US) and then export them. Works more or less. I can always select the points and adjust them to zero (Y-cord) after snapping a spline.

 

Whew…what a workaround and just one more dumb solution, I'm afraid.

 

Thank you for your quick response.

[STRAT]

yeah, the acad-c4d connection with regaurd to 2d splines/arcs/stuff is laughable.

 

i use the acad-viz method. totally reliable and solid.

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A little off topic perhaps, but does anyone have experience with the new Nugraf/Polytrans DWG compatibility feature? It could be useful for translating Autocad drawings into other packages. FWIW I am just currious, it would be great to get AutoCad drawings into 3D packages without errors and corrupt meshes. Here is to living in a perfect world! LOL