Hey folks - I am getting a “plug-in failed” warning when trying to export to DWG. The file that I am trying to export has contour information and PDFs in addition to linework layers.
I have tried the 2007 Natural scheme and a custom 2004 scheme suggestions from different foruma but nothing seems to work. (I cannot share the file as it has confidential information.)
Any suggestions on what to try? Thank you in advance!
Hi Valeria - please run SystemInfo in Rhino and copy/paste ther results here…
Does export work in a clean new file with only say, a rectangle added?
-Pascal
Thank you for the response, Pascal. It does export in a clean way with just a rectangle. The results of that command are below:
Rhino 7 SR36 2023-12-12 (Rhino 7, 7.36.23346.16352, Git hash:master @ 11a364321297eb8cdb34405a3308d8911f58706d)
License type: Commercial, build 2023-12-12
License details: Cloud Zoo
Apple macOS Version 13.6.3 (Build 22G436) (Physical RAM: 32Gb)
Mac Model Identifier: iMac18,3
Language: en-CA (MacOS default)
AMD Radeon Pro 575 OpenGL Engine (OpenGL ver:4.1 ATI-4.14.1)
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
Vendor Name: ATI Technologies Inc.
Render version: 4.1
Shading Language: 4.10
Maximum Texture size: 16384 x 16384
Z-Buffer depth: n/a
Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Total Video Memory: 4 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 575
Displays: iMac (217dpi 2x)
Graphics processors
Radeon Pro 575 (4 GB)
iMac (2560 x 1440)
USB devices
Broadcom Corp.: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc.: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Bluetooth devices
None
Third party kernel extensions
None
Third party plugins
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCore.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDarwin.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDispatch.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIOKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftObjectiveC.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftXPC.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_Concurrency.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_StringProcessing.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftos.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_RegexParser.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMetal.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftsimd.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCryptoTokenKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftOSLog.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAVFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreAudio.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreLocation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMIDI.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMedia.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftQuartzCore.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftUniformTypeIdentifiers.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftNetwork.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreGraphics.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCompression.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftFileProvider.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIntents.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftPrivate_BiomePubSub.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftPrivate_BiomeStreams.dylib
/usr/lib/usd/libIex.dylib
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/usr/lib/usd/libtbb.dylib
/usr/lib/usd/libMaterialXCore.dylib
/usr/lib/usd/libMaterialXFormat.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAccelerate.dylib
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/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreML.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftVision.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDemangle.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSystem.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftExtensionKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftRegexBuilder.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftWebKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftGLKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMapKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftModelIO.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSceneKit.dylib
/usr/lib/log/liblog_network.dylib
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.36.23346.16352
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/PlugIns/NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots” 7.36.23346.1002
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/PlugIns/RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools” 7.36.23346.1002
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 7.36.23346.16352
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/PlugIns/PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools” 7.36.23346.1002
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/PlugIns/AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools” 7.36.23346.1002
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.36.23346.16352
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhMaterialEditor.framework “Renderer Development Kit” 7.36.23346.1002
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RDK_EtoUI.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.36.23346.16352
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/PlugIns/Displacement.rhp “Displacement” 7.36.23346.1002
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/PlugIns/export_ACAD.rhp “AutoCAD file export : export_ACAD” 7.36.23346.1002
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.36.23346.16352
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 7.36.23346.16352
/Applications/Rhino 7.app/Contents/PlugIns/RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render” 7.36.23346.1002
So, we would need to see the file - you can send confidential files to tech@mcneel.com, with a link back to this topic inn your comments.
If you want to troubleshoot yuourself, I would select half of the objects in the file and Export - if that works, hide the objects and select half of the remaining objects, etc until it fails. If is fails, hide everything else, and then cut the remaining part in half until you find the object(s) that stop the export.
You can also work by layers - selecting a layer and exporting, to start the narrowing process.
On Mac, I think Export exports the whole file as I recall, I do not have my mac here - so use ExportSelected for testing.
-Pascal
I’m having a similar problem when trying to Export a file to DWG. I get the error in the image bellow and although the file is created it has 0 bytes.
I moved over to Rhino on windows and I’m able to save the file. Yet, I still get an error warning stating that some objects were skipped. The command line report states that there are 2 skipped hatches and some other object. The command line output contains some strange lines that are related with block information.
Command: _SaveAs
rodapé : --
Pavimento : PAV3
Teto : TE1
parede : --
rodapé : --
Pavimento : PAV3
Teto : TE1
parede : PA3
rodapé : --
Pavimento : PAV3
Teto : TE1
parede : PA3
rodapé : --
Pavimento : PAV3
Teto : --
parede : --
rodapé : RP1
Pavimento : PAV1
Teto : TE1
parede : PA1
rodapé : RP1
Pavimento : PAV2
Teto : TE1
parede : PA1
rodapé : RP1
Pavimento : PAV2
Teto : TE1
parede : PA1
rodapé : RP1
Pavimento : PAV2
Teto : TE1
parede : PA1
rodapé : RP1
Pavimento : PAV2
Teto : TE1
parede : PA1
rodapé : RP1
Pavimento : PAV2
Teto : TE1
parede : PA1
rodapé : RP1
Pavimento : PAV1
Teto : TE1
parede : PA1
Objects were skipped in export.
Annotation: 1126 written, 0 skipped
Breps: 1 written, 0 skipped
Curves: 12928 written, 0 skipped
Points: 5 written, 0 skipped
Instances: 265 written, 0 skipped
Hatches: 511 written, 2 skipped
Details: 72 written, 0 skipped
Other objects: 0 written, 1 skipped
Layers: 98 written, 0 skipped
Linetypes: 5 written, 0 skipped
Dimstyles: 2 written, 0 skipped
Textstyles: 9 written, 0 skipped
Block defs: 26 written, 0 skipped
File successfully saved as D:\01_ARQUITECTURA\030_PACOMATO\00_CORRENTE\PCM_EX_20240319_2D.dwg.
Hi Filipe -
-wim
I am also having this issue.
File to large to upload (36.5MB)…maybe that is the issue?
SystemInfo:
Rhino 8 SR15 2025-1-19 (Rhino 8, 8.15.25019.13002, Git hash:master @ 74164bdf5469c2f269746857c54b8c44b74c7b24)
License type: Educational, build 2025-01-19
License details: Stand-Alone
Apple macOS Version 14.6.1 (Build 23G93) (Physical RAM: 8GB)
Mac Model Identifier: iMac20,1
Language: en-US (MacOS default)
.NET 7.0.0
Metal GPU Family Apple 0
Metal GPU Family Common 3
Metal GPU Family Mac 2
Graphics processors
AMD Radeon Pro 5300 (4 GB)
iMac (2560 x 1440)
GPU Vendor: AMD
USB devices
Apple Inc.: Magic Keyboard
Apple: Headset
Apple Inc.: Ambient Light Sensor
Apple Inc.: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc.: Apple T2 Controller
Bluetooth devices
None
Third party kernel extensions
None
Third party plugins
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCore.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreGraphics.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreImage.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDarwin.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDispatch.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIOKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMetal.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftOSLog.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftObjectiveC.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftQuartzCore.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftUniformTypeIdentifiers.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftXPC.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_Concurrency.dylib
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/usr/lib/swift/libswiftsimd.dylib
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/usr/lib/swift/libswift_RegexParser.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCryptoTokenKit.dylib
/usr/lib/usd/libusd_ms.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreAudio.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreLocation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMedia.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCompression.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMIDI.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAVFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreML.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftFileProvider.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIntents.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAccelerate.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftGLKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftGameplayKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMetalKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftModelIO.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSceneKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSpriteKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftVision.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftRegexBuilder.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDemangle.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftShazamKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftObservation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftVideoToolbox.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftWebKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftNaturalLanguage.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSystem.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMapKit.dylib
/Users/rdb_sgi/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/8.0/MacPlugIns/DatasmithRhino8.rhp/DatasmithFacadeCSharp.dylib
/Users/rdb_sgi/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/8.0/MacPlugIns/DatasmithRhino8.rhp/libtbbmalloc.dylib
/usr/lib/log/liblog_network.dylib
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
/Users/rdb_sgi/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/8.0/MacPlugIns/DatasmithRhino8.rhp “Datasmith Exporter” 5.5.1.0
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhMaterialEditor.framework “Renderer Development Kit” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.15.25019.13002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RDK_EtoUI.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.15.25019.13002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.15.25019.13002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.15.25019.13002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.15.25019.13002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/export_SKP.rhp “SketchUp Export” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/export_ACAD.rhp “AutoCAD file export : export_ACAD” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/Displacement.rhp “Displacement” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/PlugIns/PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools” 8.15.25019.1002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.15.25019.13002
/Applications/Rhino 8.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 8.15.25019.13002
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Actually, it seems my issue is resolved after exploding all blocks, purging, and using export selected.