Import DWG smart objects into Rhino

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Permalink Reply by Nathaniel Zuelzke on October 1, 2013 at 10:40am

Hey Danila, have you had any success creating your live link? I'd be very happy to hear about what you've tried.

Permalink Reply by Danila Babko-Malyi on October 4, 2013 at 7:52am

I have been using worksession in rhino lately which seems to be relatively efficient, however smart objects from autodesk still don't get recognized until exploded.

Permalink Reply by Rémy Maurcot on October 4, 2013 at 8:30am

Hi Danila,

Which smart objects from AutoCAD are you talking about?

Permalink Reply by Danila Babko-Malyi on October 7, 2013 at 9:01pm

I am specifically interested in 2014 autocad walls. My office works primarily in cad and it is very difficult to keep updating referenced plans when I have to down save and explode them each time for rhino to read them. Revit seems to be an easier back to back transfer but it is not efficient when our design changes so often.

Permalink Reply by Rémy Maurcot on October 8, 2013 at 6:09am

Hi Danila,

Have you tried the format *.IFC?

I do not really understand your problem, but I suggest you watch this:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/geometrygym

Permalink Reply by Danila Babko-Malyi on October 8, 2013 at 9:54am

Hi Remy,

I have tried to export from AutoCad with the .ifc format, but rhino still does not recognize the smart objects (walls) when attempting to import. This is the error: Unsupported entity type: AcDbProxyEntity, ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY

I have seen geometry gym before and browsed through the blog, but I don't see anything that could help me with this specific issue.

Thanks for your help, Dan

Permalink Reply by Rémy Maurcot on October 10, 2013 at 7:51am

Danila,

You must import IFC in rhino.
Two solutions: RhinoBIM or SSI FOR IFC (which I recommend).

To my knowledge AutoCAD alone can not understand what type of entity.