Can you import polylines into Unity?

Hi folks,


I'd like to import .dxf file consisting of polylines.

But when importing the .dxf file, which consists of polylines by CAD, I can't find anything in Unity scene.

When .dxf file consisting of polygon by CAD, it works.

Unity manual says "Unity can read .FBX, .dae (Collada), .3DS, .dxf and .obj files, so if your program can export to this format you're home free."

Does not Unity support just polylines?

Pleas help me how to import polyline(.dxf file).


Thank you very much for reading.

Any assistance would be appreciated!!

 

no there are no polylines. Unity imports and supports triangle based models so ensure that you export them to such a form.

 

Thank you very much for your quick reply ^^

I need to import polylines into Unity.

Isn't there any way to do?

If I ask Unity company to upgrade the Unity for polylines, is it possible?

 

Pretty surely not, unity has no support for lines in any form, so its not just a matter for supporting it in the format (which it doesn't) but absense in the engine as such

It supports meshes as such, if you need something that differs from it you either have to build it from meshes or export the points and use Vectrosity to replicate a similar thing (or naturally something you created yourself)

 

Why don't you pipe the lines in rhino, or sweep a small rectangle along them, they'll come in appearing as lines then.

 

Does Vectrosity support .dxf file?

I have .dxf file, which was completed by CAD and comsists of polylines, and want to import it into Unity.

So, is it possible that Vectrosity imports .dxf file, exports Vetrosity file and the file is imported into Unity?

I can't try to use Vectrosity without buying. Isn't there Vectrosity trial version?



to redmacmanz,

That's polygon. I did, but It was too heavy.
Thank you anyway.

 

Vectrosity doesn't have .dxf file support, sorry.

--Eric

 

Thank you for your anwer.

There is no way?

Help me.................!

 

What kind of files does Vectrosity support?

Are there other 3D Tools' files that Vectrosity supports among the files Unity can read? (.FBX, .dae, .3DS, .dxf and .obj)

 

none
You create the lines from code.

There is no way to get polylines in without you writing an importer that understands them and then convert it to something that exists at all (either something using the mesh class or converts it to a dataset usable by code using vectrosity)

Might sound unfavorable, but CAD software does not tend to create "realtime meaningfull data" and polylines as well as a plentitude of other things unhappily fall into that category.
Optimally you seek to triangulate etc all before export where possible as the rest will just "be gone" in the model itself

Whats normally done is that you write a script for the cad / 3d software itself which extracts the information and exports it to a text file in some format you then later parse in unity /whatever engine and interpret accordingly

 

Only its own really simple format, which is just a series of Vector3s (each pair of Vector3s describes one line segment), output as a binary file. Theoretically I guess it's possible to write some kind of importer, which takes the file and converts it to a series of line segments.

--Eric

 

none! Your answer was helpful to me.

Thank you all,

Good to know this community. Nice community!

I'm going to use this a lot. ^_____^

 

You should be able to import the file into blender, its free. Then export it from there into unity. Also you can import these types of files in 3ds max and Maya. You could download the student 30 trial version for free and be able to get the mesh out of those programs into unity. The mesh will be extremely dense and no good for a game engine however. There will need to be some major optimization of the mesh to lower the poly count to something usable. Most likely. Good Luck.

 

Vectrosity lets you use any unity mesh to generate wireframes from using its editor script, its a little utility built into unity when you get vectrosity... at the price the author is selling it for, how can you do wrong?