Hi,
there is still "SketchUp Make 2017" offline, in English and other languages.
https://www.sketchup.com/de/download/all
Greetings Günter

Getting back to "form Z"..
I started playing with "Form-Z Free" and it really looks like a very powerful free program and maybe a great alternative to good old SketchUp.

I do notice that form Z free only exports... DAE, STL and KMZ.   I don't see SKP as Rampa mentioned 'course I may be missing something.

I guess the only file type I import into DAZ  is DAE which seems to load into DAZ but it's pretty much invisible. Something is there, I think, but I can't see it in any of the views except "Solid Bounding Box" but I don't see anything in "Wireframe" which seems odd. Maybe the polys are flipped but can't seem to find anything in form Z or DAZ to relate to that (not that familiar with DAZ). I'm just trying a simple cube so nothing complicated coming out of form Z for sure. Still in all I think I should see something in "Wireframe" for sure. Just so ya know I have the latest DAZ and the latest form Z as well.

Any ideas would help on getting stuff out of form Z free for use in iClone would be helpful. If it's possible?!

I was going to recommend this program to some folks who need a free 3D modeling tool but can't recommend it till I figure it out..if that's even possible LOL!

Thanks!


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I saw that too.

The problem is that on my main PC it will not install; the installation ends in a blue screen. I was able to install it on another PC, but I would still like for RL to update 3DXchange.

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there are actually a variety of choices to work around this issue including online converters,  google "convert skp to obj"  and you'll see a few web converters.

The problem is that we lose the ability to remove back faces in the conversion process.   This also includes downloading the dae from 3Dwarehouse which also seems to include and rename the back faces, rendering the back face clean up tool in 3Dxchange inoperable and leaving the user to do it manually.  This can be very time consuming with models that have many parts. ie -  a bridge - which most sketch up modelers tend to break into a lot of small parts with back faces.

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In the FT entry, RL added a comment why patching 3DX to support the current SketchUp version is not possible.

Apparently there is only a 64-bit SketchUp SDK, whereas 3DX is 32 bit. Another reason why 3DX should have been updated to 64 bit along time ago...

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Wow that is disappointing. You would think RL would already have an update

Thank you for all the feedback in this thread.

Unfortunately, the problem is that the new Sketchup SDK is now 64bit only but 3DXchange 7 remains a 32bit application which makes it incompatible.

For now, the solution is to download the older version of Sketchup now called SketchUp Make 2017 from the link below and then save the SKP files in 2015 format. This will allow you to continue to download and convert models from the Trimble Warehouse for use in iClone.

https://help.sketchup.com/en/downloading-older-versions




                                                                

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Unfortunately, the future of 3DXchange is still under discussion and no decision has been made yet about a 64bit version. For sure the ability to import 3rd party models is still an important feature but how this is achieved in future versions of iClone is still to be decided.


                                                                

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