{"id":29,"date":"2006-04-12T17:15:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T01:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=29"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:34:21","slug":"fix-dwg-files-in-maya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2006\/fix-dwg-files-in-maya\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix DWG Files in Maya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting an Autocad file into Maya without special conversion software isn’t impossible, at least for a simple model:<\/p>\n

Step 1.<\/b> Go to the Plug-In Manager<\/b>.
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Step 2.<\/b> Check that dwgTranslator<\/b> and objExport<\/b> are turned on.
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Step 3.<\/b> Switch Maya into Modeling<\/b> mode.
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Step 4.<\/b> Choose the Import option box<\/b>.
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Step 5.<\/b> Set the File Type to DWG_DXF<\/b>, and set the Scale Factor to 0.001<\/b> (otherwise, Maya will blow your DWG up to an enormous size). Click Import<\/b> when you’re done.
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Step 6.<\/b> Import the file.
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Step 7.<\/b> Call up the Outliner<\/b> window.
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Step 8.<\/b> DWGs will sometimes arrive in many pieces. Use the Outliner to select all these pieces, and then use the Group<\/b> command to lump the parts together. (If your file’s parts are already grouped together, you can skip this step.)
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Step 9.<\/b> With your new group of parts selected, choose Combine<\/b> from the Polygons menu. This will turn the separate parts into a single object.
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Step 10.<\/b> Make sure your new combined polygon object is selected, or else the next step won’t work.
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Step 11.<\/b> Choose Delete By Type\/History<\/b> from the Edit menu. This will break the links between your new object and the old group of imported parts.
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Step 12.<\/b> Select your old group of parts and delete them. (If your new object suddenly disappears instead, you didn’t delete its History properly.)
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Step 13.<\/b> The next three steps set up your new object so it works properly in Maya. First, choose Center Pivot<\/b> from the Modify menu.
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Step 14.<\/b> Next, choose Texture\/Automatic Mapping<\/b> from the Edit Polygons menu. (You can use any of the commands in the Texture menu to prepare the model for texturing, but I think this is the easiest to start with.)
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Step 15.<\/b> Finally, as an optional step, you can choose Normals\/Reverse<\/b> from the Edit Polygons menu if the model appears to be shading strangely.
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Step 16.<\/b> That done, you’re ready to texture the model. Switch Maya to Rendering<\/b> mode.
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Step 17.<\/b> Choose Assign New Material<\/b> from the Lighting\/Shading menu. Here, I chose Lambert.
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Step 18.<\/b> Add a texture and check your results–you may need to do some more tweaking before you’re satisfied, but at this point the model should behave normally in Maya.
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If you’re still not happy, you might want to try changing your original file’s export settings in Autocad. (I’d recommend avoiding settings that create unnecessary triangles whenever possible.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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