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Kuba, thanks for the detailed reply. Unfortunately our office doesn't have rhino (although I've seen the grasshopper rhino combination at another office and been tempted to investigate further) so the option of creating IGES files via rhino is not available.

Given that the dxfs give me a series of lines can anyone tell me how i might turn these lines into faces?

Hello,

I'm trying to convince my company (…and myself) that houdini makes sense for an architecture firm over 3dstudio because it presents the opportunity for rapid generation of design iterations that static modeling simply does not. I realize that this question I'm about to ask is a long way from “rapid generation of design iterations” but here goes…

What is the most effective way to get a .dxf outline of a facade or floor plan to be a 3d model?

Any help is greatly appreciated,

A.

So I was trying to install 11.0.504 for win64 and I was getting the hang-up at the splash screen and wasn't able to get any further. I rolled back to 10.0.595 and it works. I'd recommend the roll-back to anyone else having this problem.

The older release is available under the Support Menu at sidefx.com.

Cheers