A customized obj importer for Blender, that creates a Principled BSDF Material. We use it for importing from 3DCoat, but it should work for other applications as well.
Get it here: https://github.com/knekke/blender_addons
Just put importOBJ_principledShader.py into your Addons folder and enable it.
A short instruction video:
As usual feel free to improve!
cheers
this is looking very useful, I will for sure give it a try - thanks!
Was looking for the exact same thing 
Great one, thanks.
Would you know, if there’s anything similar for FBX?
No idea, but a good place to start if you want to do your own, would be to take a look at blenders fbx-importer and see how it handles the materials.
Thank you very much. This looks useful!
Thanks for this usefull thing
This is amazing. Thank you.