Sketchup Plugin

[nikus]

Do you think a Sketchup plugin (ruby / C++) could be expected?

[Anuvin]

I know very little about Blender, slightly less about programming, and even less about Sketchup, so be aware that I don't know what I am talking about.

Since blender is all python, and, as you said, Sketchup is ruby/C++, I doubt that we will see it released officially.

Is there something you are doing in sketchup that you can't export to blender?

[nikus]

Is there something you are doing in sketchup that you can't export to blender?

Yep. Fbx or dae I don't remember is OK from Sketchup to blender (I will check tomorow). In first time I could do (or find) a plugin to do this easely.

[JamesCooper]

We don't have any plans to integrate with Sketchup, but that shouldn't preclude you from using it. I'm developing the tool chain in pieces, so we go from STL, to g-code, to a WAV file, and finally to a WAV player that's "driving" the printer. We want the Blender plugin to wrap this tool chain, but we also want a simple enough interface that you could drive it from the command line and/or others could write plugins to drive it from their favorite CAD program. The actual heavy-lifting will be done by the existing slicers and our gcode processing code -- a plugin would just be there to provide the options to drive it and provide feedback on the process to the user.