Blender Addon Import Sketchup

If successful the imported sketchup model will appear in blender 2 8 s 3d view positioned as it was in sketchup.
Blender addon import sketchup. That is just a small speed bump to get the file in blender. To import your file into sketchup open sketchup and go to file import make sure the file type dropdown is set to stl click on options if you are not using modifiers you can check the merge coplanar faces box to maintain the same type of face in your sketchup model that is in your blender model. Select the dae file located at the unzipped folder. In blender go to file import and then select collada default dae.
Click twice to import. Currently we need to use a little workaround of importing them first in 2 79 because some add ons don t work yet in blender 2 8 but even so it s very easy to do. This is an unofficial addon to blender 2 70 and up which imports dae and kmz files created by google sketchup and is also designed to be used with models from 3d warehouse. It supports skp files from sketchup 2017 but you have to import the data using blender 2 79.
Its limited export options present a bit of a problem however because content is not specifically game ready or in a workable state. Because both of those formats are basically collada dae files this addon uses the default blender collada importer under the hood but does some useful additional processing to the imported objects. To import the collada dae file select that option from blender 2 8 s file menu file import collada default dae. Import sketchup models into blender sketchup is a relatively powerful tool for quickly making buildings and other structures for games.
Importing sketchup models is easy in blender and opens up a world or warehouse shall we say of free sketchup models that you can use.