It seems that in the official 2.62 build that Collada is broken. When I try loading a DAE file, Blender immediately disappears (I’m running Windows 7). I found a thread related to this that said newer builds fix the problem, but so far I haven’t been able to find one that works.
Additionally, newer builds have OBJ import broken, so if someone can point me to a build where both Collada and OBJ work, I would appreciate it.
That’s my point. In the RELEASE BUILD from the Blender.org website, if you download it and try to import a DAE file, it simply disappears (Blender disappears - there’s no crash, no errors, it just disappears immediately).
I searched for this problem and the only answer I could find was, that yes it is broken and the fix was to download a more recent build. So I downloaded the most recent build I could find from http://builder.blender.org/download/ and it has the same problem.
So my question is - does a 2.62 build for Windows x64 exist that actually can import Collada files? If so, where can I find it. Because the official release build is broken.