Can you import sketchup into blender

Getting from SU to blender is the tricky part - Blender to Unity is a straight up export. There is a TIG obj exporter for SU and in the manual I mentioned above states unity can import obj so all the conversion may not be required.?? At least for anytime I tried to use it.

The workaround makes perfectly compiled, and audited obj files. Importing Sketchup Models into Blender Developers. Hello, Has anyone ever imported a Sketchup model. I would like to determine whether to use Sketchup at all for creating 3D models, because at some point I will need to create textures and apply them to the models, and then import them into the Unity rendering engine for use in Virtual Reality simulations and applications… Thanks,.

Thanks Anssi. What kind of VR are you doing? Way to support Open Source Blender….. Only project cameras are imported. Tried saving in and Cancel Reply. Receive free assets, news, and resources for architecture. We respect your privacy and do not tolerate spam and will never sell, rent, lease or give away your information name, address, email, etc. Nor will we send you unsolicited email. To export and import Sketchup files into Blender we will also look at a way to bring.

How to import a Blender model into Sketchup? The easiest way to get a Blender model into Sketchup is to export using Collada. Then import the. This will keep the diffuse texture from Blender to be viewed in Sketchups viewport.

You may have to tick "selection only" in Blenders Collada export settings as the only exception to the default export settings. We will continue to look at different alternatives for bringing files between Sketchup and Blender, with or without textures. You can download Sketchup Make here and Blender can be downloaded from here. Exporting Collada is the simplest and best supported way of getting objects from Blender to Sketchup. Here I will just outline the process given above in a more step by step manner.

Sometimes I have had issues with textures when importing into Sketchup. It can be a single face somewhere in the mesh missing or a face that does not get textured. It is not very common but it happens. What usually fixes it is if we go back into Blender and just slightly move one or more vertices that is attached to the face just a tiny bit and export again. The obj exporter work similar to the collada in Blender. For our intents and purpouses we follow this procedure.

This will be the UV Map that is currently selected in the object properties. To check this go to the properties panel and find the object data tab. Works great. Need to install from the ZIP file. This addon is OK for some things. The problem is it triangulates sketchup models on import. The wall of a building with lots of windows is a many sided polygon. On import, triangulating this creates a whole lot of triangles and it is a lot of work to merge all the faces. But there are workarounds.

Not sure why everyone comments the same thing here without doing some google work!!! I got it to work fine, and it really is great. My setup: MacOS You are wrong.