Hi, is there anyone who has replaced AutoCAD with Rhino for 2d-drawing? For furniture production or Architecture maybe? I am aware that Rhino started as NURBS 3d-Modeler, but since even complex 2d-drawings and documentation only require basic 2d commands, hatches, dimensions, layer managers and lay…

[image] Eugen: Speaking of which… there seems to be a bug In Rhino7. Here’s a 41MB .dwg for testing: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuVHVtZXcSytgf8ujzvrb-2vewANOw?e=a65Cti (file is above 20mb limit - does this onedrive link work?) The OneDrive link worked. As far as I can see the bottleneck is the 76…

Thank you, Nathan! I’m doing exactly this at the moment. Takes a looong time though… Selection, viewport response… all quite slow.

Wouln’t it be great to be able to type the command “hatch” and then to draw it directly as a polygon? Like you do it in ArchiCAD. Now you always have to draw the boundary first, then select the boundary, hach and finally delete the boundary.

Dynamic blocks have been in Autocad for years, which is why there’s such a high degree of support for them by various 3rd party’s (furniture MFG’s, parts MFG’s etc). The abilities of dynamic blocks typically used by us is to have a single block we can drop in any view and use a drop down menu to ch…

Xrefs most important tool for large projects. Inserting blocks not as powerful

Hello, I am structural engineer and drawing 2D construction documents with Rhino (because I like it more than Autocad). Though, as Autocad is still widely used I need to export my plans from Rhino to Autocad. I am facing the following problems: 1 - I found no way to export Rhino layout into DWG …

Lack of DWG export for layouts makes them currently useless to me. I am not drawing for myself, I need to send files to vendors who will often use Autocad to open the files and then program manufacturing equipment like CNC routers and lasers . My ideal workflow would be to model in 3D then export to…

[image] g.hairault: 1 - I found no way to export Rhino layout into DWG layouts (layouts are lost during transfer from 3dm to DWG) Hi! I could not believe this, and did a quick test - works! (Would be not cool if it wouldn’t) Rhino Layout: [image] Saved as DWG, opened in ACAD: [image] […

My bad for not checking again before posting. Layouts show up in Autocad now. I’ll check with some suppliers in the morning to confirm they can see the layouts too.

Allright, I did not thought about using “Save As” instead of export commands… my bad. Now it work great !

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RH-2174 is fixed in the latest WIP

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