A Question about SketchUp 8
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I was playing with SU 8 Pro Eval that I received at Basecamp, and I have a couple of questions:
Are the exporters different on the Eval version than on the licensed version?
Since my Thea exporter is in my SU7 pro license, I wanted to take the model I was working in in SU 8 into 7 and render it. There is no "Export to SketchUp 7" option to choose, so I exported via Collada... what a mess. The model was virtually unmanageable. Unfortunately I also had opened a couple of other V7 models in V8 and once opened they couldn't be opened in SU7 again.
I work with and exchange models with a variety of people, all of whom may not be working in SketchUp 8, so at the moment I hesitate to upgrade as this means that exporting back and forth will be a problem. I am hoping that SU is not following the Autodesk model of cutting off versions. Somehow it doesn't make sense to me to give away free versions of SketchUp and remove a necessary functionality from the pro user. Is this an oversight? or just an Evaluation version strategy?
Next, Why did the Collada export change things so drastically. Groups became components, and the nested components were so messed up that I couldn't explode without crashing? Is this a bug? Does Collada normally change things when it is used as an exporter?
I haven't used it much as most of my exports/imports tend to be dxf/dwg.
Just wondering.
Oh, and this was on my MacBook Pro, running 10.6.4 -
Dale, you can select a version when you use "Save As"
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Dale, Speaking from experience with Dxf, I have found that some applications do not follow the required specifications. I would not be surprised to find the use of Collada to be of any difference.
For example one application I use, exports circles via Dxf to SU polylines, where a SU circle is required. This is OK for SU, but if you use the app's translator to write a Dxf for use by another program, you will get a segmented line, not a circle. I used my own Cad2Su for many years until I realized that my own DxfOut changed the label " 20" to "20". Again, this was OK for SUs forgiving importer, but caused problems for other applications.
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@jim said:
Dale, you can select a version when you use "Save As"
Thanks Jim ... Now I can add this to my "Why I'm dumber than a Hoe file"
Honolulu I was quite surprised at the changes that Collada made as I hadn't really heard anything bad about it. As for dxf/dwg I'v always fought with this format.
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