This was (or still is) an issue.
Reported (Technical Problems category) in March of 2015, thread reopened February 2016.
I’m using meshlab to save my furniture model from Solidworks as a collada file before importing into sketchup. Im using collada as its importing more cleanly than when i export/import DWG/DXF.
However when i import the DAE into sketchup the scale is hugely blown up - something like x10. There doesn’t seem to be any options on import scale in sketchup or when exporting in meshlab.
Has anyone come across this when importing and aware of how to combat this, scaling in sketchup is not ideal.
Than…
Reported in May of 2016 (Technical Problems category), with not much acknowledgement of the issue …
I’m using Make not Pro, I hear Pro can export to OBJ but Modo can import DAE, however when imported into Modo the scale and size is wrong. Template for Sketchup is MM when in Modo is Meters, I thought I could scale it down but the sizes are wrong anyway.
Any help ?
Jim Hamilton gives an example where the 1 meter diameter sphere comes out as a 1 inch diameter sphere in DAE export. (May of 2016)
Some notes on uploading this to Shapeways for 3D printing in color …
Set the model units to decimal meters
Use the tape measure tool to resize the model so that the sphere radius is 0.5m
Export the model as a DAE file (in meters) with these options:
Name: earth.dae
[image]
Edit the DAE file to change this line:
<init_from>earth/earth.gif</init_from>
to (remove directory):
<init_from>earth.gif</init_from>
Move the earth.gif file into the same directory as the DAE file
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Again reported (Technical Problems category) in Nov of 2016. Two SketchUp employees in the thread. …
After much hair pulling, I realized why the units of my dae exported from Sketchup were showing the wrong units in Meshlab. It appears Sketchup is exporting in inches, despite the fact I have units set to meters in Sketchup.
Is it possible to change this behavior? I must have units in meters so meshlab can compute inertia in the appropriate units (among other reasons).
Sketchup Pro 2017 on OSX
Again reported in January of 2017 …
After much hair pulling, I realized why the units of my dae exported from Sketchup were showing the wrong units in MonoGame and Jitter Physics Engine.
It appears Sketchup is exporting in inches, despite the fact I have units set to millimeters in Sketchup.
Is it possible to change this behavior?
I must have units in millimeters so MonoGame and Jitter Physics Engine can compute inertia in the appropriate units (among other reasons).
It is troubled because floating point rounding errors due to…
I thought I was involved in a topic discussing a plugin that would correct DAE files after export, … but cannot find it now. (Might have been either a private thread or is over at SketchUcation.)