Has somebody already experience with this plugin? Looks awesome, but I am kind of tired of testing all of these plugins to see if they actually work. Strange that it only supports Sketchup up to Version 2019 according to the website.
I know next to nothing about SolidWorks, so my first suggestion would be to model everything as solid groups and components and then simply use, perhaps, DWG as an intermediary format.
What would perhaps make the plugin worth it would be if it could sort of retrofit a spline surface over what are smoothed “curved” surfaces in SketchUp. They say something about smoothening edges but without trying it would be impossible to say what it actually does.
dude.
how useful is your message ? you’re posting almost 3 years after Anssi’s answer to do what, rant at him ?
messages like that just waste the time of people looking for solutions, as you say.
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I for one am still looking for that holy grail of accurate STEP export from Sketchup. It’s one of the last remaining barriers for Sketchup of being a real pro tool. And boy has step as a standard surged in the past years. Almost all of our suppliers want step files by now because they can import it into their updated machine milling softwares and such. And here I am with my beautiful Sketchup, designing away, not being able to export parts.
Fortunately at least 2D DWG parts exports have improved a lot since @boris.beaulant implemented a solution into OpenCutList. But exporting untriangulated 3D Parts that you could open in other 3D Software (Rhino, SolidWorks, etc.) remain uncharted territory. Looking at the last Basecamp presentation, there seems to be budget at Trimble for Sketchup. Why not spend it at this and Layout, instead of AI tools?
Importing FROM SolidWorks is almost as bad, btw. 
hello,
I sometimes receive 3D furniture files (mostly theater seats) that are in step format. I usually use online converters (such as https://imagetostl.com/) but I have to first export them to .STL and then import in sketchup. Perhaps you can do the same thing the other way around, I’m not sure about the result but it may worth a try
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Hello,
STL, OBJ or SKP are mesh files where “the way solids are built” doesn’t exist.
The STEP format is based on a different principle.
Converting mesh to STEP is a similar problem than converting 2D segmented curve to real curve.
There is an element of hallucination in conversion.
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