From SketchUp to Blender

Published by Allan Brito on January 29th, 2008 in Tutorials

A Blender artist called Alejandro Vasquez, AKA Alexv, has published a short, but interesting tutorial, showing how to successfully import a model from SketchUp to Blender.

This tutorial can be useful to artists involved with architectural visualization. If you want to check out the tutorial, there are two versions:

From SketchUp to Blender (English)
De Google SketchUp a Blender (Spanish)

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1 bjzaba Jan 31st, 2008 at 8:05 am

now this is helpful! thanks for the link.
2 Reaction Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:39 am

Excellent! I was talking to an architect the other day, and he said they use Sketchup to create quick sketches of building designs for customers. To find out there is a simple path from .kmz to Blender is fantastic!
3 Kernon Jan 31st, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Wow, that's nice and easy. Thanks!
4 myx Jan 31st, 2008 at 7:16 pm

Whenever I try this method, the instanced objects such as windows, shrubs etc do not appear in my scene. Has anyone tried this successfully. Do you treat the component in a special way?
5 Sorbus Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:58 pm

Hey Alexv,

Great tip. It works great on the Mac too! I used to have an 8 hour trial of Sketchup Pro just to *ahem* try the export features from my Google Sketchup files, but not any more ;)

Here's one step you need to add though, to stop Sketchup exporting faces AND an extra set of edges…

http://sketchup.google.com/3dbuildviewer.html#id=8

Sorbus :)
6 David Feb 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Using the free Sketchup 6 I import a model and then use the above method to export it into blender and nothing appears in blender, however when I make some graphic (a box) in Sketchup myself I can export that. Any suggestions as to why this is?
7 Sorbus Feb 9th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

Hi Dave,

Select what you've imported, right click and choose 'explode'. That will convert the grouped polys into a simple mesh. Exporting will then work fine after that.

The same goes for instanced objects and components.

Sorbus
8 Alejandro Vazquez Apr 8th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

Wow… can't believe we share the same name and we are both in the 3D field. Nice job Alejandro!
9 Adam Apr 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 pm

I tried to load a sketchup file, but the collada importer script crashed when I tried- My computer ran out of memory; the memory load went from 294mb to well over 2gb during the import. Is there a memory leak in the script?
10 Capnhud Jun 14th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

I tried to open a 3d model from google 3d warehouse using this method and all I get is what appears to be something but with no materials or shape. The blender console indicates the following:

FEEDBACK: Illusoft Collada 1.4 Plugin v0.3.159 started
C:..\Fixup\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blend
er\.blender\scripts\bpymodules\colladaImEx\cstartup.py:328: DeprecationWarning:
integer argument expected, got float
Blender.BGL.glColor3i(0.255,0.255,0.2)
The minor version of the file you are using is newer then the plug-in, so errors
may occur.
scene.link(ob) deprecated!
use scene.objects.link(ob) instead
FEEDBACK: FINISHED - time elapsed: 12.5

how do I fix this so that I can see the model? I tried to right click and explode but I did not see the option to explode anything.
11 Graham Aug 20th, 2008 at 9:11 am

Yeah, I get that too.

Get from 3d warehouse->Explode->Export->Import

ZIP, de nada.

Just an empty scene.

Didn't run blender form command line so I don't have the console output.

I actually just want to get the 3d warehouse stuff, so if anybody knows a way to put that into blender without the sketchup step that would be stone cold!

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