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[Jonathan Barto]

Does anyone have a decent dwg of a furnace.  Showing the cold air return duct and the upper duct going up to the trunk line.

 

Thanks

[Mark Petri]

Best to search 3D Warehouse. You can import anything you find there.

[Jonathan Barto]

Mark

 

The only problem is it doesn't allow me to import a dwg file.  its a weird col file.   Im not sure how. to get it to be a dwg file.   I did some good ones on that site

[Keith Almond]

Don't use the collada file, use a sketchup file ... most sketchup files allow you to choose the download format.

[Mark Petri]

What Keith said. DAE or SKP files work. Also, if you find a free 3DS file those work. Just put them in your 3D symbol folder and link to them when creating the symbol. If you don't have 2D of the symbol it will create one with the wizard (for those who don't know). The created 2D in the wizard isn't as good typically, but it works.

[Jonathan Barto]

Keith 

 

Most of the symbols can be downloaded into sketchup 2021 model.   But Can that be imported into softplan?

[Mark Petri]

Just use the Symbol Wizard if you don't have SU and want to work with it there.

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[Luke Tarallo]

How do I go about importing a new symbol?

[Keith Almond]

Make a directory under the Softplan\3D\3D Symbols directory and save it there (I've found .skp or .dwg files work best) then use the symbol wizard to create the necessary symbols.