Creating a Static Model from a DWG/DXF File

1. Run the StatiCAD Program

2. Enter the Dxf Import menu

3. Bring up the File Open Dialog with the File>Open Command. Change the file type to dwg or dxf. Select your drawing file and use the open command to display the drawing in the StatiCAD drawing editor. If the drawing file cannot be viewed in the drawing editor despite this process, try saving the dwg file in dwg2007 format and opening it again in the StatiCAD drawing editor.

4. StatiCAD uses line objects in the import process.

If you are using StatiCAD V6.0.9.0 or higher version, in order to convert the polyline objects in the drawing into line objects, select the part of the drawing to be imported and click the Convert selected polylines to line command from the modify menu. Or, click Simplify Drawing for Import under the Modify menu to simplify the entire drawing. The first operation converts the polylines in the selected drawing section to lines. The second operation converts all the polylines in the drawing to lines and deletes the remaining objects.

If you are using a version before StatiCAD V6.0.9.0, before opening the drawing file in StatiCAD, explode the drawing in AutoCAD and convert the polyline objects into line objects.

5. Click the osnap button in the drawing editor and select the Object Snap On and Endpoint options in the resulting dialog box and press the Ok button

6. After selecting the entire drawing with the window, click the move command (or move from the modify menu) on the screen.

7. Click the upper left point of the Floor plan to be imported, press the tab button on the keyboard, type 0,0 in the command line that appears. When writing zero comma zero, make sure that the sign between is a comma, not a period. Press the Enter button. The drawing will be moved to the 0,0 point considering the base point you marked.

(You can use the keyboard's tab key to give dimensions while any command is active in the drawing editor (line, circle, move, copy, etc.).)

8. Click the View>Zoom Extends command or on-screen shortcut to make the entire drawing reappear. Deselect the drawing by pressing the Esc button

Translation results

10. Select the unnecessary line to make the unnecessary layers invisible in the drawing. We click on the properties window and learn the object layer.

11. We close the relevant layer in the Format>Layer dialog box.

12. At this stage, we can take a backup of the drawing we have edited in dwg or lcd format using File>Save As command. If recording in dwg format will cause problems, save the drawing in lcd format.

13. Floor settings, floor selection (to which floor to import), and project general settings are made on the screen.

14. Click the wall command on the Import toolbar. Importing walls one by one is more efficient. Multiple wall imports may not work well in every project.

15. In the wall properties window that appears, the appropriate values are changed and the material is selected. If it is an existing floor or building, the security number is taken as 1.

16. If our walls consist of lines (lines, not polylines), we can start importing the walls by choosing two lines.

17. As the imported lines are converted to walls, the lines are changed to red.

18. After the import, the wall corners and cross-sections may be found unassembled.

20. For this case, by selecting the two elements to be intersected on the main screen, the elements can be automatically intersected by clicking the Intersect 2 Elements button in the right menu.

21. If the axles are not imported, the axles can be created automatically with the option to create if there is no axle in the change menu on the main screen.

22. With the join wall command, a pieced wall can be made into one piece.

23. By selecting the axis and element, the operation can be performed with the option to put the selected elements on the selected axis.

24. If there is a faulty element, you can click it or select it with a frame and delete it and create it again.

25. You can also import elements such as door/window, beam, vertical beam, foundation by selecting two lines or draw them manually on the main screen.

26. You can import axes in bulk by selecting multiple axes.