There you can point to the downloaded file and install the Add-on. How to install the SketchUp importer for Blender 2.9? After visiting the previous link and downloading the latest release from Arindam Mondal, you can open the Edit → Preferences menu in Blender 2.9 and use the “Install” button from the Add-ons tab. The latest release from Arindam Mondal is version 0.21 of the script, which works with Blender 2.83 LTS and also Blender 2.9! The script uses SketchUp 2020 SDK, which makes it compatible with the latest SKP versions available.
The project was left untouched for a long time until Arindam Mondal forked the script and updated the code to version 2.8.
Is there a way to import SketchUp files in Blender? Better yet, can you import them in Blender 2.9?Ī couple of weeks ago, we posted some news regarding one of the few working Add-ons that enabled Blender to import data from SketchUp, which was originally a project from developer Martijn Berger. Unfortunately, you don’t have a default option to import SKP files in Blender. It is quite common to get a SketchUp file from the client and get a request to make it look “pretty” with a render in Cycles.
In many projects related to architectural visualization using Blender, you can have a starting point from a model received from a client in another software, such as SketchUp. How to import SketchUp (SKP) files to Blender 2.9?
