BC Layers into Twinmotion

Tom Foster
Tom Foster
edited May 14 in 3D Modeling
Has anyone any ideas on getting Bricscad Layer structure into Twinmotion, rather than just all the solids listed individually? In TM there's Containers and Levels - Containers being like Folders into which soilds can be grouped, and I'm not sure how to use TM Levels. All undocumented, and precious little on YouTube.

I need the model, in TM, split up into sub-models, for a video in which As Existing parts of the model get removed and As Proposed parts get added.

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  • zoomer
    zoomer
    edited May 14
    Has anyone any ideas on getting Bricscad Layer structure into Twinmotion,

    AFAIK same happens for FBX Exports, pretty useless for me either.
    Loss of naming, no structure, ....
    (I even have a (old Bricscad demo dwg ("Villa") where Bricscad FBX exports a mirrored model !? that you can't even import correctly with and Y/Z's up X positive/negative settings options, if only available) 

    As a Mac user, with no access, I do not have much experience with Bricscad's (Windows-only) Datasmith export (or vendor Exchange ?). 
    That is why I still use VW for such tasks instead, as VW having Datasmith Exchange - not much tested but also pretty reliable FBX or even C4D (both oneway  Export, except of the "sync" option in TM), with all bells and whistles concerning translation of Cameras, Lights and mostly all important Material Settings.
    Both FBX and C4D offer different export options, like combine by Material, ...., and most important "keep VW Structure", which is my default.

    Well, Bricscad's Material and Rendering options are really pretty basic for a nowadays CAD, but if it is not even able to translate hierarchies or even object/material Naming, it (although of its fantastic direct modeling and BIM capabilities) is not really suited for any Visualization purpose or collaboration environment though.
  • Tom Foster
    Tom Foster
    Anyone found a way to get a BC 3d model's organisation into TM? e.g. by BC Layers or by Groups or Blocks or maybe via BC Structure panel?

    Also how to use TM's Containers and Levels, if it has to be done from scratch in TM - can find no documentation and amost no YouTubes on that, so maybe is a minority-interest subject that only someone importing from a BIM program would want to know about.
  • Tom Foster
    Tom Foster
    edited May 21
    Someone must have tried to transmit BC Layers/Groups/Blocks or Structure Panel hierarchy into Twinmotion? If it's really not possible, I'd like to know. Seems crazy to have to recreate manually with containers/subcontainers in TM.
    TM imports as e.g. 3dSolid_225, which doesn't relate to same item's BC identifier 88C6E8.