Sketchup to blender
Note: The tutorial requires downloading Blender 2.8\2.81 and also a free add-on I’ve developed, to clean the model that has been imported to Blender. Also, if there’s interest, I can do a tutorial on how to render in Blender. Let me know if you try the tutorial and it’s useful to you. I’d love to know if anyone else is doing the same. I find using SketchUp and Blender together makes for a great modelling workbench. Impress everyone with a 3D particle scene with Blender and Three. You can also export models from Blender into SketchUp, which is a great way to fill some of the gaps (without plugins) that SketchUp has, like cloth simulation, quad modelling and subdivision. If you’ve never tried Blender before, it’s an unbelievably powerful tool for photorealistic rendering, simulation, animation, 3D modelling, sculpting, amongst many other things and it’s free and open-source.
So just wanted to share with the community, if anyone is interested.
It’s not always a straightforward process, so I’ve written a basic tutorial on the way I do things ( ), there may be other ways but with the latest releases of Blender, I’ve found this to be the most effective. I’m a long-time professional user of SketchUp and in the last five years, I’ve exported all my SketchUp models to Blender, to handle all of my renderings.