Once is done it would be already converted in a GDL Object. When doing drag and drop of your Sketchup file into your Washing Machine File window, Depending on the size and level of detail of the object it would take more or less time. Well that was some time ago but I think is good workflow. In this way you import whatever file you want and change there its attributes to the Office standards. I know from my previous experiences working for other offices that use a Washing Machine file in Autocad when importing Cad objects is a common practice. This file is what you can call the “Washing Machine File”. In our case we do not want that because at the end of the day your files are dirty and is really important to keep libraries and attributes organise for the future. Do not work directly in the file of a project because it will get contaminated with random attributes. I suggest that here you use a new AC file with the template that you usually use.
Once you have your object downloaded you just need to drag and drop to the AC window. Workflow 1: Importing Sketchup Objects in a Clean way.įirst of all you can download any object from the 3D Warehouse website which is full of Sketchup objects.Ģ Drag and Drop into “The Washing Machine File” Experts in GDL scripting can do awesome stuff that is for sure. We play around a bit with GDL scripting sometimes but surely we are not experts. There is no need to learn GDL scripting to do all this. In further articles of this topic we will explain how to improve 2D and 3D representation, interface, adding information into the object, etc. These formats are very common among brands manufacturers catalogues, furniture retailers, Luminaries houses, etc.Īll this objects will become GDL objects to be use in your ARCHICAD Libraries. In this first article of the Managing BIM Libraries in ARCHICAD series I am just going to talk about this workflow when importing objects in Sketchup and 3DS format. You will be able to use them to create schedules, costs estimations, construction details, etc. Later on when the projects develops you can start adding information very useful for your BIM file. Since you as an architect you don’t always want to spend time modelling 3D objects, why you just don’t download them from manufacturers catalogues?
The purpose is that even for in-house renders it really makes your project look more real when objects are well designed, or at least well modelled. it gives a realistic image of a project and real life products can be purchased later on. It is very common that for projects that are only at concept stage you want to have cool objects based on real furniture, designed lamps, etc. Today we are going to make and article based on a daily workflow that we commonly use in our practise: importing objects into our ARCHICAD libraries.
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