Import skp to blender 2.8 goes wrong

[cad_user86]

Hi,

I’m new to Blender and find it difficult to design inside the program.
Therefore I like to make models in sketchup, export dae to blender and add material, lightning etc there.

I made a VERY simple table design to do some practice and tried to export it to blender using dae. in the options a selected the following:

When importing the dae-file to blender 2.8, my table legs are no longer ‘hollow’ inside, but a surface has appeared into them.
Can anybody explain what went wrong and how to fix this? I have a feeling I will encounter this problem many more times…

thank you!

[BD3D (Dorian B.)]

are you on blender 2.8 ? if you are, we need to wait for this addon

Sketchup (SKP) importer

Importer for Sketchup 6-2015 I made this importer based to the official Sketchup API/SDK, This makes it work really well as file format compatibility is great as you would expect. This is also the greatest weakness in that this is incompatible with the GPL. Added sketchup 2016 and blender 2.77 support Supports: Components Groups Meshes Materials ( to cycles only) Cameras UV coordinates, including correct STQ to UV and scales Setting up viewport transparency for objects that have transparent…

you can use it in 2.7 for now then opening it in 2.8 while waiting the addon is done for 2.8

[cad_user86]

Yes I am…

[BD3D (Dorian B.)]

also your table leg are doing this because blender don’t support ngon with holes.
be sure to not have holes

Little Garden

For that specific issue did you try Limited Dissolve feature in Blender? [limited_dissolve]

we speak about the problem

see in this topic

[BD3D (Dorian B.)]

you also need to triangulate all faces, in the sketchup export option