Hi,
So apparently Google Sketchup uses Collada. A few programs can read its native format, but they haven’t released any specifications. Any ideas on how you could read .skp files? Can you just use the DOM?
thanks
Hi,
So apparently Google Sketchup uses Collada. A few programs can read its native format, but they haven’t released any specifications. Any ideas on how you could read .skp files? Can you just use the DOM?
thanks
I remember asking on their forums about the Sketchup file format a year or so ago. Although there isn’t a public spec, apparently if you were willing to sign some documents they would give you a C++ api for working with Sketchup documents, or something like that. So in theory I think you can write a Sketchup file reader, if you get their api. The DOM can’t read Sketchup files.
Probably the best thing to do is write a Collada reader, and use Sketchup to export the Sketchup model as Google Earth kmz. If you unzip the kmz file there’s a Collada file inside that contains all the model data. I think Sketchup Pro lets you export directly to Collada without going through kmz.