AutoCAD DXF to Maya 2003-11-20 - By Aleksandar Stiglic
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Just remember to add, really depending on what you want to do.
If you need to transfer model, not references only, then you need to use
one of these:
ARC no thickness
ARC with thickness
CIRCLE no thickness
CIRCLE with thickness
POINT, with thickness
LINE/3DLINE no thickness
LINE/3DLINE with thickness
3DFACE/SOLID/TRACE
POLYLINE/3D open
POLYLINE/3D closed
POLYLINE/3D with thickness
POLYLINE/3D Mesh
POLYLINE/Polyface Mesh
BLOCK
INSERT
LAYER
Check out what DWG can do in manuals under Translators.
Also test it before you admit to a pipeline or type of data...
I also suggest to do as much work in AutoCad as you can, clean the data there,
and export only what is needed, so no garbage in your files for import.
If you can't do this, but they are 2D planes, you might consider using something
quicker
to import this - like Corel Draw, or Illustrator, or whatever to clean up before
importing
it in maya.
Hope this helps
Grifter65@(protected) wrote:
> In my experience, it also helps (and in fact maybe a neccesity) to have the
> AutoCAD model created using "faces", and not just "lines" in AutoCAD....before
> exporting or importing into Maya...otherwise you have polylines only..as you
> described.
> hope that helps as well...
>
> In a message dated 11/20/03 6:18:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> aleksandar@(protected) writes:
>
> > For curves, edges, you need to use IGES format.
> > For just vertices, you can use DXF, then make small mel script
> > to read lines and do whatever you need it to do (DXF is in Ascii format).
> > Or just get polytrans and you can export Autocad ACIS SAT native format...
> > and load it through polytrans into maya...
> > But you can not import trimed nurbs.
> >
> > New maya has DWG import as we, so I suggest read try different types of
> > objects different ways until you get what you are after...
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> > Julian Baum wrote:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >Does anyone have any experience bringing DXFs from AutoCAD into Maya?
> > There
> > >appears to be no face geometry in the file, just vertices and
> > >edges/lines/curves (whichever of the three applies).
> > >
> > >An old version of formZ will not open it, unusually, Lightwave 7.5 will,
> > >sort of, Maya 4.5 won't. I've tried saving from LW as OBJ, but Maya quits
> > >instantly when I try to load it.
> > >
> > >It is very simple data from a town planning department, but it would take
> > us
> > >days to sift through the survey data to get the original data into Maya, so
> > >opening the DXF would be very useful.
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >Julian.
> >
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