Automapki

🗺️ Bring live GIS maps directly into your DWG drawings!

Learn how to connect AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD, and GstarCAD to WMS (Web Map Service) servers and insert satellite imagery, topographic maps, cadastral data, and other georeferenced layers without leaving your CAD environment. 👇

https://www.automapki.com/news/integrating-wms-layers-with-autocad.html

🌍 Connect to any WMS server
🛰️ Satellite & aerial imagery
📍 Automatic CRS reprojection
🏗️ Perfect for CAD, GIS & surveying workflows

🗾 Import WMS Layers into AutoCAD: Satellite Maps in DWG Import WMS satellite imagery, topographic maps, and geospatial layers into AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD, and GstarCAD using Automapki Application. Free trial available.

Need to convert AutoCAD polyface meshes, 3D solids, or surfaces into polygon meshes? 🔃

Learn how to transform DWG geometry into high-resolution polygon mesh entities for improved compatibility, larger vertex counts, and easier export to 3D file formats. 👇

https://www.automapki.com/news/convert-polyface-mesh-in-autocad.html

🧊 Polyface Mesh ↔ Polygon Mesh
⚙️ Convert 3D Solids & Surfaces
📈 Up to 65,536 vertices per mesh
🏗️ Works in AutoCAD, BricsCAD & ZWCAD

🔃 Convert 3D Solid, Surface, Polyface Mesh to Polygon Mesh Convert 3D solids, surfaces, polyface mesh, and 3D faces to polygon mesh in AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD, and GstarCAD using Automesher Application. Free trial available.

🚀 Automapki 2.0.9 is now available!

✅ Added support for ZWCAD 2026
✅ Added support for BricsCAD V26
✅ Improved KML/KMZ import with support for custom XML namespaces

Upgrade today and keep your CAD & GIS workflows running smoothly across the latest platforms.

https://www.automapki.com/products/automapki-application.html

🗺️ Automapki Application - Add Satellite Imagery to AutoCAD Display DWG drawings in AutoCAD over web maps, satellite imagery, or custom WMS/WTS layers with Automapki. Enhance your GIS workflows.

Can SketchUp component instances survive a SKP → STEP conversion? 🧩➡️🏗️

Yes - but with some important limitations. Learn how SketchUp components are mapped to STEP assemblies, what happens to scaled instances, and how to preserve model structure when moving from SketchUp to engineering CAD workflows. 👇

https://www.automapki.com/news/convert-sketchup-skp-models-with-component-instances-to-step.html

📉 Smaller SKP files with components
🔄 Preserve reusable geometry where possible
📐 STEP assembly structure support
⚙️ CAD-ready interoperability

📉 Reduce SKP File Size with SketchUp Component Instances SketchUp component instances reduce SKP file size by storing repeated geometry once. Learn how component reuse works across formats (STEP, FBX, DAE, GLTF, IFC).

Turn your photos into 3D models with just a few clicks! 📸➡️🧊

Discover how Autoconverter transforms JPG, PNG, BMP, and other images into 3D reliefs and mesh models using AI depth estimation and image processing techniques. Perfect for 3D printing, artwork, logos, and creative design projects. 👇

https://www.automapki.com/news/transform-2d-images-into-3d-models-with-autoconverter.html

🤖 AI-powered depth estimation
🖼️ Convert photos and drawings
🧊 Export STL, OBJ, SKP, DAE & more
🖨️ Ready for 3D printing

📸 Convert 2D Images to 3D Models: PNG, JPG, BMP to STL, OBJ Convert PNG, JPG, BMP, and GIF images to 3D relief models for printing using Autoconverter. Export to STL, OBJ, SKP, and more. Free trial available.

Need to create DWG files from 3D models but don't have AutoCAD? 📐

Convert STL, OBJ, FBX, SKP, STEP, IGES, 3DM, IFC, GLTF, USD and many other 3D formats directly to DWG using Autoconverter - no AutoCAD installation required. 👇

https://www.automapki.com/news/3d-model-conversion-to-autocad-dwg-without-the-need-for-autocad.html

🔄 Convert 30+ 3D formats to DWG
📦 Supports mesh and CAD models
⚡ Batch conversion available
🏗️ Compatible with AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD & GstarCAD

📐 Convert 3D Files to DWG Without AutoCAD: STL, SKP to DWG Convert STL, OBJ, FBX, SKP, DAE, STEP, and 30+ 3D formats to AutoCAD DWG without AutoCAD installed. Autoconverter writes polyface mesh DWG files in AutoCAD 2000 format.

Did you know SketchUp 2021 introduced a versionless SKP format? 🆕

Models created in SketchUp 2021+ can be shared across newer SketchUp releases without constantly saving to different file versions, making collaboration much easier. Learn what changed, what didn't, and when version conversion is still required 👇

https://www.automapki.com/news/versionless-skp-sketchup-2021-unlocks-free-collaboration.html

🤝 Easier team collaboration
📂 No more SKP version juggling
⚡ Compatible across SketchUp 2021+ releases
🔄 Convert older versions when needed

🆕 SketchUp 2021: Versionless SKP & Easy File Conversion SketchUp 2021 introduced a versionless SKP format - files created in 2021 and later open in older SketchUp versions. Use Autoconverter to save SKP to any version.

Not all 3D mesh formats treat polygons the same. 🔺⬛

Learn how quads and n-gons are supported across popular 3D formats like OBJ, FBX, SKP, DAE, glTF, STL, PLY, and 3DS - and why this matters for modeling, rendering, game engines, and CAD workflows 👇

https://www.automapki.com/news/polygonal-faces-support-for-quads-and-n-gons-in-3d-meshes.html

🔹 Triangles vs quads vs n-gons
🎮 Game engine compatibility
🖌️ Better subdivision workflows
📦 Format limitations explained

🧩 Quads and N-Gons in 3D Mesh Formats: Polygons Support Autoconverter now preserves quads and n-gons when converting 3D files - no forced triangulation for OBJ, FBX, DAE, SKP, USD, and other polygon-native formats.

Do SketchUp components become AutoCAD blocks during SKP to DWG conversion? 🧩

Yes! Learn how SketchUp component definitions and instances can be preserved as DWG block references, keeping your models organized, lightweight, and easy to edit inside AutoCAD-compatible CAD platforms 👇

https://www.automapki.com/news/sketchup-skp-components-and-autocad-dwg-blocks.html

🏗️ SKP Components → DWG Blocks
🔄 Preserve nested hierarchies
📍 Keep position, rotation & scale
⚡ Avoid exploded geometry

🧰 SKP to DWG: Import SketchUp into AutoCAD with Components Import SketchUp SKP files into AutoCAD, BricsCAD, ZWCAD, and GstarCAD as DWG using Automesher Application. SKP components convert to reusable DWG block references.