Importing Sketchup to Bryce

[Gary Childress]

I've toyed around with Google Sketchup a little and have been able to do some interesting things with it that I can't seem to do as easily in Bryce. However, I can't find any way at all to import anything from sketchup into Bryce. Is there any way at all to do this?

Thanks,

 

[Kyriakos]

I do not think there is.
Too bad, really, since Sketchup is by far a superior tool for designing set shapes.
Many things take more time and original thinking to make in Bryce.

 

[Bjornlo]

With the free version of Sketchup and the free version of Vue Infinte 6 PLE

Save your Sketchup object as a .skp file.
Open up Vue Infinte 6 PLE, Go to File, Import Object and import it.
Then use the Export Object option nd save as a OBJ.

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Also free is Blender 3d. It can import sketchup models using the script from blenderartists.org. It is a python script and so is somewhere in their python forum.
Blender also has a OBJ exporter.
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Also, it is possible that the current version of Deep Exploration can convert Sketchup files.

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Better still, go read the tutorial I wrote on Truespace. Which while it can not read Sketchup files, is a better modeler. And, Bryce can read Truespace files without having to install a bunch of "in between" files.

 

[Gary Childress]

Also free is Blender 3d. It can import sketchup models using the script from blenderartists.org. It is a python script and so is somewhere in their python forum.
Blender also has a OBJ exporter.
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I tried the Blender site and downloaded the python script yesterday while google searching for ways to import/export sketchup, however, I'm not sure what to do with the python script file. I can't open it.