Blender is now friend with files from CAD! 2.74 Released!

pilou

Blender 2.74 will be able to import and use the normals as
generated by the CAD soft.

As Sketchup is like a Cad one...

Version for test it!

function

what file format are you exporting as ???

pilou

Any CAD format! That was a "bug" of Blender now resolved!
THx for the SKP importer!

andybot

there is also this which came out recently, works very well
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?360406-Sketchup-%28SKP%29-importer

Nice! Thanks for this, will take a look.

pilou