Thank you very much!

So I am done with a project and I want to export each group as an individual OBJ file.

And there is a ton of them! Its a pain to select each group and do the File>Export>3d Model>(input filename).

Is there a plugin out there that all I need to do is to select them all, run the plugin and it will save each group as an individual OBJ file with numbers like OBJfile001, OBJfile002...etc?

I made a model and imported it to another existing project.

When I made a copy of it, I realized that the copy is a component which the copies change according to the changes done on the others.

This is not what I intended to do. I guess I had a mistake. I want to make the copies into a plain and simple groups that will not be effected when I change the rest.

Is there a way to convert the components into simple groups?

I got it. See this:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=340fce8f376fad57&hl=en

If I just create a simple cube and put a different color for each face and export as an OBJ, the exported model contains all of the 6 materials as you can see below.

Now if I create a complicated model. The materials exported is only one! I need to export all of the materials I made, is there something missing or this is a limitation in SU?

@mitcorb said:

Does Meshlab do anything for this?

I just downloaded Meshlab. I am unfamiliar on how to use it. Can you give me a newbie instruction?

I just started using Sketchup 8.0 Free edition and exported what I created in a .dae extension.

I imported it into a 3d hobbyist software called Poser which can import collada files.

It went smoothly when I realized after rendering that all the model's faces are coplanar faces.

This means it will be hell to create a UV map of this thing and the file larger than it should be. Is there a much faster way to remove coplanar faces other than exporting it to a different 3d modeling software and delete each coplanar face individually?