Colleagues,
I just posted this at t-s.com, but I think it is good enough news to cross-post it here:
Over at UKTS I stumbled over what might come close to the breakthrough on the question of importing models from SketchUp into 3DC.
I post this here as the original thread at UKTS seems to have been without much reaction, only one reply. Here is the original thread:
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And here the link to the plugin: (scroll down to ‘OBJ exporter)
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This is the by far best working object exporter I have found yet. It exports to the OBJ format, is very basic (no options/settings), but does a really good job getting the sctructure into 3DC in one piece, without breaking up the model into hundreds of tiny polygons.
There are only two issues with it:
– no texture or mapping export from as far as I could see
– it exports your model in inches, so you need to scale the imported model by 0.0254 in 3DC. Easy enough, though.
Here is a screenshot of an imported model’s wireframe, it is the slightly more complex Boston Trinity Place station building:
[img:32mjiclg]http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/GreatNortherner/RS/SU-3DC.jpg[/img:32mjiclg]
Cheers!
Michael