Need some help- NL2 Spline Exporter

I recently purchased the Pro version of NL2, and with that came the spline exporter. However, I have yet to find a tutorial anywhere on how to import the CSV into SketchUp or Blender. If anyone could help me with this or link me to a tutorial, that would be great. Thanks in advance!

[mkingy]

Sketchup requires an extension to do this - I think this one is the one you want: https://extensions.sketchup.com/sv/cont ... t-gadget-2

mkingy wrote:

Sketchup requires an extension to do this - I think this one is the one you want: https://extensions.sketchup.com/sv/cont ... t-gadget-2

I tried that, however I got several errors and when it did work once it didnt make any points

[mkingy]

Make sure your data is set out in the csv in the following way and delete the unneeded columns



I then used the following settings



Then use the "create linework" tool in point gadget to get what you need.

You might need to "zoom extents" to ensure the zoom isn't super far away.

Hopefully that helps.

mkingy wrote:

Make sure your data is set out in the csv in the following way and delete the unneeded columns


I then used the following settings


Then use the "create linework" tool in point gadget to get what you need.

You might need to "zoom extents" to ensure the zoom isn't super far away.

Hopefully that helps.

Since all the values are in one column, how would you separate the needed values? i know that the only ones needed are Pos(XYZ), however i would like to know how to tell which value is which. My CSV Looks like this

[mkingy]

Open up excel, choose data from the ribbon then chose import from text file

Navigate to your file and select it, this opens up the wizard, Ensure delimited is selected as below

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Ensure you chose to delimit by commas as below

step3.PNG (31.39 KiB) Viewed 4259 times

Your data should now be organised by column, all you need to do is save this file as a .csv and it should work.

mkingy wrote:

Open up excel, choose data from the ribbon then chose import from text file


Navigate to your file and select it, this opens up the wizard, Ensure delimited is selected as below


Ensure you chose to delimit by commas as below


Your data should now be organised by column, all you need to do is save this file as a .csv and it should work.

This worked, TYSM!

mkingy wrote:

Open up excel, choose data from the ribbon then chose import from text file

step 1.PNG

Navigate to your file and select it, this opens up the wizard, Ensure delimited is selected as below

step2.PNG

Ensure you chose to delimit by commas as below

step3.PNG

Your data should now be organised by column, all you need to do is save this file as a .csv and it should work.

Apologies for resurrecting such an old topic but I'm having some issues with the "Create Linework" feature. It keeps telling me that there aren't enough similar markers.
For some background I followed the instructions you provided exactly but I ended having to use "Tabs" instead of commas in order to get the point values in separate columns in Excel. If I used the comma, it would still import the data into column A only. Not sure if this is affecting the linework feature?

mkingy wrote:

Open up excel, choose data from the ribbon then chose import from text file

step 1.PNG

Navigate to your file and select it, this opens up the wizard, Ensure delimited is selected as below

step2.PNG

Ensure you chose to delimit by commas as below

step3.PNG

Your data should now be organised by column, all you need to do is save this file as a .csv and it should work.

Sorry to resurrect such an old topic, but I'm having issues with this. It was working before but now it's not for whatever reason.

When I use Excel to interpret the data, I have to use tab instead of a comma to get the coordinates in different columns like your example screenshot.

This does get the markers into sketchup, but the "Make Linework" feature doesn't work. When I try I get a message stating that there aren't enough similar markers. I've tried moving all the markers to a single layer, unlocking them, and putting them into a group.