How to import UV coordinates from any UV mapping software

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Hi! Could anybody say how to import to SU’s model UV coordinates from any other external UV mapping software? Tried to use SketchUV plugin which, as I understood, it can do such a task, but it doesn’t.

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My goal is

  1. To unwrap my models in some of third party UV mapping software;
  2. Save UV map, render UV template.
  3. Import it UV coordinates to SU model.
  4. Texturing model in Photoshop, using “rendered uv template” like in 3ds max.

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Any ideas?

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This category is for discussion and requests for tutorials.
I read your original post as a request for a tutorial to be written on how to import / unwrap UV coordinates / textures for all or any external UV mapping software, and then import into SketchUp.

It is such a general and complex request that it may be quite some time until some UV guru decides to take this project on and completes such a tutorial and posts it (in the parent Tutorials category.)

If it is a question that you wish answered more promptly, please reassign this topic thread to the main SketchUp category and I would suggest being a bit more specific as to the external “UV mapping software”. Then, you’d be likely to receive an answer much sooner.

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