Hi all,
I’m trying to move a Chief Architect file to D5 Render, but seems like the easiest or maybe only way to do this is to first move it into SketchUp, and then use the D5 plug-in. My issue is that I get an error message when I try to import the Collada file, and the error is around “missing textures.” Does anyone know how I can solve this within Chief Architect so that the Collada model will import into SketchUp?
When you exported from Chief Architect, was there a checkbox to include textures?
Also, are the collada textures in the same folder as the dae file? SketchUp won’t know where to look for them otherwise.
Unfortunately not…unless there’s a different toggle switch within the materials tabs that I need to keep checked in order to export everything correctly
They weren’t so I copied everything into one folder and tried again…same issue exists. I went into the plan materials and purged everything not being used, hoping that would do the trick, but still no luck 
The “trick” is that the paths in the dae XML must be relative to the dae file itself.
Otherwise SketchUp will not be able to find them.
Normally exporters would write the path URLs into the XML as if the texture files were relative from the output dae file.
Were they in a subfolder of the folder that the dae file was written to?