[Radiance-general] dxf2rad

[Jack de Valpine]

Hey Rob,

Would you be willing to share experience with Revit to Radiance? What 
where the main problems that you encountered?

-Jack

Rob Guglielmetti wrote:
> Jack de Valpine wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> Well that is interesting about Sketchup models. And to clarify, my 
>> experience has really been in trying to take client built sketchup 
>> models and get them into something useful. So my experience biased by 
>> big not very well built/organized models provided by others. I guess 
>> the thing that I am glad to hear is that like any modeling tool, if 
>> well used and controlled, you can get something useful out of it. 
>
> Yeah, I got two models recently, one built in SketchUp and the other 
> in Revit (same project, same model extents), and the Revit one was 
> literally unusable in AutoCAD, much less Radiance.
>> I would certainly be interested in trying your translator if and when 
>> you feel it is ready to share.
> As a very recent licensee of SketchUp Pro, I too would be interested 
> in your translator, Thomas!  I'd also like to hear (maybe off-list) 
> your thoughts on how to model accurately in SketchUp, since it seems 
> to still lack direct coordinate input, UCSs, and the object snaps seem 
> a little lean compared to ACAD...
>
> - Rob
>
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