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SketchUp - Exporting help please

91Chris
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Hello. Does anyone know of any (preferably free) solutions which add the ability to export .STEP/.STP files from Google SketchUp?

It seems ridiculous that Google doesn't support the industry standard. Hopefully there's a pain free solution out there.

 

I have already Googled and seen several plugins and utilities that offer import and/or export, but I want someone with experience to recommend a solution.

 

Cheers,

Chris.

You guys are crazy. You know you guys are self-destructive. There's a funny farm somewhere and it's got your names written all over it. But I'm gettin' outta here.

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Hello. Does anyone know of any (preferably free) solutions which add the ability to export .STEP/.STP files from Google SketchUp?

It seems ridiculous that Google doesn't support the industry standard. Hopefully there's a pain free solution out there.

 

I have already Googled and seen several plugins and utilities that offer import and/or export, but I want someone with experience to recommend a solution.

 

Cheers,

Chris.

Don't use SketchUp.

 

I recommend OpenSCAD.

"You have got to be the biggest asshole on this forum..."

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I know... It's a piece of shit.

I just want to be able to harvest the mahooosive library of SketchUp models on the 3D warehouse and use them in a proper CAD program.

 

Personally I use Creo Parametric for engineering type models and 3DS when I went through a game designing period.

You guys are crazy. You know you guys are self-destructive. There's a funny farm somewhere and it's got your names written all over it. But I'm gettin' outta here.

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I know... It's a piece of shit.

I just want to be able to harvest the mahooosive library of SketchUp models on the 3D warehouse and use them in a proper CAD program.

 

Personally I use Creo Parametric for engineering type models and 3DS when I went through a game designing period.

You could probably convert it to something and then convert that to something else using another program and eventually get to .stp. Is that too vague?

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Makes perfect sense.... but how and what programs do I need?

 

I found a very tacky work around a while ago where if I export it as a .obj, I could then import it into Creo, but doing it that way leaves me with an uneditable mess. Really it needs to be a step file.

You guys are crazy. You know you guys are self-destructive. There's a funny farm somewhere and it's got your names written all over it. But I'm gettin' outta here.

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I know... It's a piece of shit.

I just want to be able to harvest the mahooosive library of SketchUp models on the 3D warehouse and use them in a proper CAD program.

 

Personally I use Creo Parametric for engineering type models and 3DS when I went through a game designing period.

I don't have a solution for your issue, I've only ever gone from autocad and revit into sketchup. And Sketchup has its place, mostly for hobbyist, but I know several worldwide architectural firms that do all their render board images in Sketchup. It's fast, easy and cheap.

 

Give this site a try, it's a personal favorite.

http://skyscraperpage.com/

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