You can choose not to import some layers at this window also. If you want to kill this process, there’s no other way but the classic Ctrl+Alt+Del! So, for a large or complex model, it might be best to leave this box unchecked since you can always merge coincident triangles from the modify menu later on. If your model is complicated, this process can take up to hours (- and Ecotect kind of freezes during this time – so you can’t do anything with it but wait until it’s done).
I’ll mention this issue later on.Īuto-Merge Triangles: The program will merge triangulated surface into rectangular ones to reduce the number of objects from the import process. Scale: This is for scale conversion between different programs. Import window will pop up with many options you can select. Many design firms, during design phase, designers might go for convenient tools like SketchUp to model the buildings since the form can be easily manipulated.Įcotect allows for many file types to be imported but mostly.
Although Ecotect allows for some modeling tasks but it’s typically an easier workflow for designers to use Ecotect’s import function to prepare the input file for Ecotect analysis instead of recreating the model from scratch.
