miscreant Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 I recently had as-built plans drawn up for the house I bought last year, and the draftsman provided me with DXF files for import into the software of my choice. I checked out a trial of HD Pro and the DXF import seemed to work just fine. However, I then purchased HD Suite not realizing that DXF import isn't supported on Suite. I really can't justify spending $495 just to get one DXF imported, as once this is done I don't ever expect to do it again. Is there some way to create a .plan file from a DXF without Pro? Perhaps a standalone application of some sort? Is this something a forum member with Pro could do on my behalf or is it a faux pas to ask? Apologies if this is something that has been discussed before but a cursory forum search didn't turn up much by way of solutions and I'm brand new to HD. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miscreant Posted June 7, 2017 Author Share Posted June 7, 2017 Yup, that file opens fine. It does give me a dialog saying it's been created in Pro, and that the creator may restrict the ability to perform some revisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solver Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 What can you do to it? What changes and additions can you make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robborito Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 But a dxf file is a CAD data file. It will open as just lines and arcs etc inHDPro - won't it? The dxf is not going to be a three dimensional import like a 3ds or stl perhaps. Dxf is fine for electronic drawing board 2 dimensional CAD.....with no BIM or 3D data. I would guess you would have to spend allot of time expanding with trace overs etc to produce your HDPro model. Rather a slow process from my past experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawB10 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 Why not just rebuild from the plan itself? Open the plan in Pro and rebuild it in Suite. You could also use the snipping tool in Windows. Copy/paste into Suite and draw the walls of the plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawB10 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 solver, In Suite you can't do anything with a Pro plan but look at it, unless the Pro user unlocks the plan. If you would, unlock a Pro 2016 plan, upload it and i'll see what Suite 2017 can do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solver Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 9 minutes ago, LawB10 said: f you would, unlock a Pro 2016 plan, upload it and i'll see what Suite 2017 can do with it. See post #2 for a plan. You would need a 2018 version to use it. Here is one done in Premier X7 that should work for you. X7 - Suite Test.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miscreant Posted June 7, 2017 Author Share Posted June 7, 2017 17 hours ago, solver said: What can you do to it? What changes and additions can you make? I was able to do everything I tried--resize walls, change text, draw new walls, etc. Seems like there are no obvious restrictions on the file you sent. I forgot to mention in previous posts that I have HD Suite 2018. I gather from the responses here that the preferred method is just to import a different file type and trace over the lines. I do have PDFs of the plans. I realize that DXF files don't have 3D data and there would be a good deal of tracing anyway, but I figured with an import the dimensioning would be precise and leave less room for human error (something of which I have more than my share). If DXF has no real benefit then I don't see why it would be a "premium" feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawB10 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 solver, You forgot to do something....lol Default setting>plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solver Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 You are correct. Never really used X7, so wasn't changed in my defaults. X7 - Suite Test.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawB10 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 On 6/7/2017 at 3:04 PM, solver said: You are correct. Never really used X7, so wasn't changed in my defaults. X7 - Suite Test.plan Works like a charm, I can do what Suite allow you to do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miscreant Posted June 16, 2017 Author Share Posted June 16, 2017 I wound up importing the PDF and tracing over it. Very labor intensive but it's done! Learned a lot in the process and have many more questions about how to wrangle HD now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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