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Not only is this extra bulk to your project it can also play havoc with many of Blender’s tools, which can behave unpredictably.

This is an awful lot of extra geometry, which on a large model could make for a huge amount of needless vertices, edges and faces. A cube should have 8 vertices, 12 edges and 6 faces. Currently, it shows that the cube has 24 Verts, 30 Edges and 12 Faces. With the cube in edit mode, look at the status bar at the bottom of the window and you’ll notice metrics for the current object (see close up image). Blender will always group geometry to objects. SketchUp allows you to create loose geometry which isn’t in any group or component but is simply part of the scene. It works in a very similar way to SketchUp’s grouping, where you have to open the group first before you edit the geometry inside. As a side note, if you’ve not used Blender before, Blender treats all geometry you create when you are in Object Mode as a new object. Which opens the object’s geometry for editing. The third issue is made apparent if you select the solid cube and either press the Tab key or go to the drop-down menu, just below the File menu, which will currently say Object Mode and select Edit Mode.

I’ve included a SketchUp file in the Tutorial Files folder of the DAEClean download but it’s such a simple model that you can quickly create it yourself if you wish, just make sure the two cube’s geometry are in two separate groups (one group for each cube). dae export and blender can have issues even with very straightforward geometry. One solid and one with a hole through the center. To demonstrate the import/export process, I’ve created a very basic SketchUp model of two cubes. dae file format is human-readable, so edit’s can easily be made if required. It’s straightforward to fix most of the issues and the. I’ve tried exporting to a number of different file formats from SketchUp. You’ll need to download the add-on if you want to follow along. I’ve outlined my process for importing SketchUp models into Blender, which relies on my free DAEClean add-on. Blender is such a powerful tool that can take your SketchUp models to a new level, with photorealistic rendering, simulations, subsurface modeling, animations and sculpting to name just a few areas. It’s free and open-source and whereas it used to come with a very steep learning curve, the release of Blender 2.8 has become a far more accessible tool and the community continues to bring the interface in line with other popular packages. If you’ve never tried Blender before, this is the time to start. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to export models from SketchUp and import to Blender, taking care of the various issues that need to be sorted before you can start using your model in Blender.