If you often come across DWG files exported from visualization programs like 3ds Max or SketchUp, then you have certainly noticed that the 3D models in these files are not 3D solids, but polygonal meshes. Meshes are also created by some furniture programs/add-ons, for example, SwissAllCad, ABF. Often, so-called Polyface Meshes or Polygon Meshes are found there, which have not been used in DWG for several decades. No commands work with these strange meshes. This wretched legacy of ancient times cannot be measured (snaps do not work) and cannot be converted to something normal. You cannot even explode it.

The same problem is presented by models imported from ACIS or SAT files. In them, you will find objects of the "Body" type, not solids. Nothing can be done with these objects either.

But now you have a tool that will solve this problem. The MeshToSolid command works with both ancient PolyFaceMesh/PolygonMesh and normal meshes. It allows you to assemble a solid from mesh fragments or individual faces (3D Face). And if that doesn't work, then at least convert them into normal Mesh (sometimes called SubDMesh).

The program for creating new blocks from old ones, AsmNew, can call MeshToSolid. You can create dynamic blocks with meshes. Meshes, unlike solids, can be stretched in dynamic blocks. This way your wall sections, drawers, and exhibition construction systems (Octanorm) can be easily customized with the parameters of dynamic blocks. But to further use details from these blocks in AVC plugins, you will need to convert all meshes into solids. The AsmNew command will do this conversion at the same time as creating a new assembly from the former dynamic block.

As a last resort, you now also have a mesh explosion program that converts any meshes into lines in one click. Now you can at least measure this architectural sketch normally to build a complete solid model.

Capabilities:

• Convert PolyfaceMesh and PolygonMesh to Mesh

• Glue scattered pieces of meshes into one closed mesh

• Convert closed meshes to 3D solid

• Convert 'Body' object (ACIS, SAT) to 3D solid

• Converts polylines and circles to solids if they have a pseudo-3D property called Thickness.

• Assembles solids from 3D Face-type polygons.

• Replace meshes with solids inside blocks.

• Mesh properties (layer, color…) are transferred to the new solid/lines

• Transfer the colors and materials of meshes or individual polygons to the corresponding solid face (this option must be enabled in the settings).

• The MeshExplode command explodes PolyfaceMesh, PolygonMesh and 3D Face on Lines

• Meshes can be selected before calling commands

• You can handle many meshes at once.

Meshes with more than 10,000 faces are not processed, as this can obscure AutoCAD. But this figure can be adjusted.

The MeshToSolid and MeshExplode commands are included in the collections A>V>C> Kit and A>V>C> Pro.

Regardless of the AutoCAD localization language, you can switch the plugin to English, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese (PRC), Spanish, French, or Turkish localization.