A former co-worker was an architectural student who used the pro-version of sketchup for her renders in 3-d apps...I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way or a patch to use the free version to save in a format available for use in vue 6, (obj. Lw. 3ds. shd.) sketchup saves in a .skp format. I have Hex which accepts/converts several formats, however .skp is not one of them. I'd appreciate any assstance anyone may have to offer, thanks

I haven't used it myself yet, but maybe regularfry's (shaxam.com) LWO exporter will work for you...MG

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I think it currently only works in SketchUp 6.

Thread:
www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php

Direct download:
shaxam.com/files/lwo_export-0.0.6.zip

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2772307

This recent post gives a method, I have not tried it myself.

 Doesn't the latest version[7] come with an obj exporter...I think it's right off on of the top menus..plugins dropdown.. ...

 

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I think you will find that the obj exporter only comes with the expensive Pro version.

Quote - I think you will find that the obj exporter only comes with the expensive Pro version.

Somebody did a Ruby script for the free version.

1. Do a Google Search for "OBJ exporter Sketchup" - there are two - one which deals with textures a lot better than the other.
2. If you export a Sketchup model to Google Earth (a .kmz file)  it's actually a ZIP file containing a Collada version of the mode. Export to KMZ, change file extension to .ZIP, open the file and extract the .DAE (Collada) model from the ZIP file.

 There's a tute on my blog:

http://blog.chipp.com/2009/04/converting-from-sketchup-7-to-vue.html