dwg files

[halo]

i havent found importing dwg to be wholly failsafe...i make sure i have a print out to check them, and sometimes go to the length of opening them in illustrator then resaving them out as .ai after cleaning them up and removing unwanted crap.

[DuttyFoot]

is .dwg 2d, for example if you created a building with another program and saved it as .dwg would it save the 3d model as a 3d object or 2d

[pixel-abuse]

I regularly import 3d models from Autocad 2000 into Max 5 as .DWG files for rendering and it generally works well once you've worked out the correct import settings to avoid getting flipped normals. It can take quite a time to import larger models though, a current project for a terrace of houses took nearly 2 hours to import just had to leave it chugging.

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