Exporting SketchUp Files TO BLENDER! Everything You Need to Know!

In this video, learn how to set up your SketchUp files so that they can be imported into Blender!

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Exporting your model from SketchUp to Blender for Rendering!
In this video, we’re going to talk about how to take a model or a design from SketchUp and import it into Blender.
Note – these are pro exporters – however, I will talk about a way to do this with a free extension as well
This can be useful for a lot of things, including UV mapping, rendering, and more!
Different kinds of files give you different results.
OBJ
Exporting as OBJ – Single Individual File – can’t edit individual objects
Look at the folder it creates
Notice – textures are separate
FREE OPTION – TT Quad Face Tools has an OBJ exporter!
Collada
Export as Collada – Maintains individual objects – useful if you’re going to be doing texture editing
Explode group first – otherwise you just get a dotted line
Making dotted lines go away – clear parent relationship, or just turn off relationship lines
Note – texture mapping gets weird if your SketchUp model isn’t quad mapped

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[Thesketchupessentials]

Hi everyone! Super excited to continue this series with you guys. Leave a comment below and let me know what else you'd like to see in this series! :)

[victorssamuel]

To get accurately scaled models right from import... For metric units, go to model info and change your units to metre before exporting from sketch up . It comes in perfectly scaled. Very handy when importing architectural models

[aryanthakkar]

Please do a exterior house rendering in blender which is imported in blender from sketchup 🙏🏻🙏🏻

This is a helpful video, as always. Thank you . As a sketchup user (stuck in the 2017 pro version), one of my first main tries with blender was to import my numerous sketchup models in blender. After import, there are still a lot of optimisation to do : clean the triangulation the import has created in order to get clean quads. Also all the sketchup components are single and unique mesh after import which is memory ineffective and make the modification of components harder to perform. I guess a tutorial on these issues would be very helpfull

[MrMwenesi]

Thanks, Justin for this tutorial. I've been transitioning from SketchUp to blender and you get what we go through

[dannorris]

Good Video. .DAE is definitely the way to go for exporting/importing to Blender. It definitely has it's issues, like splitting some faces away from the mesh as separate objects but I've been using this method my work for a few years now and find it the most reliable format. .dae files are also humanly readable, so easy to edit if there are issues. I mentioned in a previous comment a DAECleaner addon for Blender, which fixes the majority of import issues. I would definitely recommend a look at that.

[doumu]

OMG THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY WHAT I NEED! thank you so much for creating this sir!! 😭💕

[padminiarts]

Oh my god, thank you so much for this tutorial! I am making a switch from Sketch up to blender for lighting and rendering. This is awesome...

[janusvanrhyn]

Hi Justin, I manufacture office furniture. I started using sketchup during this lockdown drawing up some of our products, but now I'd like to render some of my models in an office scene. Which plugin would you suggest (quick and easy). I'm struggling with twilight. Thanks in advance for your help

[francis-bravoairspace]

Thank you Justin. Your videos always help. I wonder what would be the process to make just a single texture sheet with all the textures in one model? For 3d gaming use creating 1 texture for the entire model. Thank you.

[riady]

Hi Justin,
Thanks for the tutorial. Just curious, what about exporting the files as Fbx from sketchup?

[sarahassan]

I would like to know if i can import an animation from sketchup into blender to render ?

[VasanthC]

Great that's helpful, can u export a house which has severe complexity as this and solve it in blender and can u make that to a decent render

[aadilkriel]

Dude this video helped a ton! Thank you :P

[akhilvijay]

Thank you for the great tutorial. Do you have any idea about why the DAE model getting multiple faces while viewing in blender .

[maru_chai]

OMG THANK I've been having a hard time trying to find a way to build in sketchup and add textures to the different components (groups) in blender but I think the .DAE tip might work 🤝

[captainranker]

Does it just export the selected objects or the entire model? If it exports the entire model is there a method to export specific objects within a model? Thanks

[josoadavidson]

Thanks, it's helpful
Could you please show us more about importing a collada file on blender without struggling about the group mode and parenting? :)

[van___nhi]

Hello, how can we export scene (camera) from sketchup file and import it in to the blender file? Thank you :) This tutorial help me a lot!! :)

[dansydtv]

Thanks but the model I have has numerous textures and I am a beginner and the textures are unassigned once into blender and I have no idea what to do. I was wondering if maybe there’s a way to have blender automatically put the textures on?