For this exercise i chose an Eames Chair but this works for any object. I started by going to the Trimble 3D Warehouse to find an object and downloading it. I wanted to see if i could make the imported content ‘intelligent’, particularly though in relation to IFC and COBie. But as part of our roll out of ARCHICAD 17 i thought i would see what this new embedded functionality was actually like.
The import has been available for a number of versions as an add-on (otherwise known as a plugin) but i am always wary of these having been burnt in the past. In the latest release of Graphisoft ARCHICAD, version 17, there is now a direct import of SKP files from Trimble SketchUp *. I have been working on standard data sets for our projects in ARCHICAD for the past 6-12 months and this got me thinking about whether i could use these data sets and apply them to any object, no matter what the content was created in.
Can i convert a sketchup 17 file to sketchup 8 software#
So after that brief introduction, now on to this blog piece…Ī lot has been said in BIM circles about the idea that some software currently is not really able to be used in BIM workflows, particularly though when it comes to the ‘I’ in BIM. And there is no harm in looking at how another authoring tool functions. If nothing else you may begin to understand a little more about ARCHICAD. I would therefore like to think that the blog pieces i write are as useful to users of other authoring platforms as they are to an ARCHICAD user. This perhaps may seem a little extreme but with this thought pattern it allows me to focus on the bigger picture of BIM. For me, my simple mantra is if you can’t export it from an authoring package, and generate a benefit to others, it doesn’t exist. My focus is all on the data and how we can use it and export it. There are already plenty of users focussed on asking Graphisoft for ARCHICAD feature improvements that are primarily designed to benefit the model author. In fact i am becoming more and more uninterested in what can be done in ARCHICAD. Before diving into this blog piece i wanted to explain first that whilst i am an ArchiCAD user i always try to look at the bigger picture of BIM, particularly with regards to data.
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