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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">One thing first! It looks like if there are only 2014 posts here. No. To get new posts filed under the latest one, I have to do it in the 2014 way... (This line I wrote in 2020!) Any new developments are always published here.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I started this early 2014,
had a long period of hard work writing Adobe CC courses, then CC 2014 came,
then the CC 2014 October release. Started again May 2015, and adapted it
all to SketchUp 2015 and Photoshop CC 2015 november release. Early 2016 I adapted it to SketchUp 2016, and later to Photosh<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">op 2017</span>. (In the A<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rchive it says "2014"</span> be<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">c<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ause the first post is from that year.)</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Unless otherwise stated it functions in Photoshop 201<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7</span> just like in Photoshop 2014<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In this
simple website I am going to tell something about interchanging files between Adobe Photoshop and Trimble SketchUp.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Photoshop</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I am working with Photoshop CC, but anything we discuss here can be done with Photoshop Extended CS5 and CS6 too, if not otherwise indicated.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">SketchUp</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I am working with 2016 Pro, but anything we discuss here can be done with freeware Make, unless otherwise indicated (some export options f.e.). </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I shall discuss the SketchUp export options, of which the files can be used in Photoshop. These files can generally be opened directly with Photoshop, but you might run into problems. Always <i>import</i> these files <i>in new Photoshop documents</i>. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I shall explain how to export skins from SketchUp, rendering them in Photoshop (or making them in Photoshop from scratch), and importing them in SketchUp.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can contact me through mailATmvanthiel.nl.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">DAE files are commonly called Collada files.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can export DAE from any version of SketchUp. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Make an object in SketchUp, say a box. You do not have to make a component of it, since that makes no difference now.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Give the object a skin. Use a material like a groundcover on all sides.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is necessary for two reasons. In the first place it will make differences between the various export options clearer. And second: an object not having a skin or an incomlete skin might show in Photoshop (partially) as a TIN, as we shall see later (TIN: Triangular Irregular Network; search on sketchup + tin.) or as a wireframe.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">File > Export > '3D Model' > 'COLLADA File (*.dae)'.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This will result in the export of a DAE file of course, but also a JPG of the skin (see above). There will be no JPG if instead of a groundcover or such (a "3D" material) you use a color ("2D"), though the export of the color works fine. Later you shall see why we want to have a JPG.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(Export a box or such without skin, and compare.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In Photoshop do File > New, and set the size on 1.000 x 1.000 px or such. No background.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Do 3D > 'New 3D-Layer from File' and choose the DAE file with skin. Click Open. This works fine. Save the file as PSD.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(Do the same with the box without skin and compare. Works fine using DAE.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In Photoshop open both 3D and Properties panels (see above).</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the 3D panel select the layer with the same name as the skin. See that then, in the Properties panel, you can change to another skin. Do so. As you can see above, the new skin ("grass") is applied to the whole object, although we did not make that into a component.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Do 3D > 'Generate UV's' and after that 3D > 'Export 3D-Layer' and choose DAE.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Have a look at all the files you have produced. See above. The two files at the right are the UV PSD files. In early versions of Photoshop CC there was one file, a JPG.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In SketchUp do File > New, and then File > Import. Select 'Colada Files (*.dae)', choose the DAE exported from Photoshop after changing the skin and click OK.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">[SketchUp 8 / Photoshop CS6:] </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Disregard a possible warning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">See that the result is far from correct. Even if you export the unchanged PSD as DAE, it will not import correctly in SketchUp, although the export does produce a JPG of the skin.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">[SketchUp Make 2015 / Photoshop CC 2015:]</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although the files are not JPG but PSD, it all works fine. See above and below.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[SketchUp 8 / Photoshop CS6:]</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you leave one or more sides without a skin in SketchUp, then you will be able to apply a skin to those sides in Photoshop, but as soon as you rotate the object things go wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>[SketchUp Make 2015 / Photoshop CC 2015:]</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">See below now, in Sketchup, the box with only two sides covered, 1 and 2.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The grey rectangle in front is the shadow. Where the 'botom' and the third side came from (as they were not covered with a material) I don't know.</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">KMZ files are commonly reffered to as 'Google Earth Files'.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Repeat the steps as for exporting as a DAE file, but this time choose 'Google Earth File (*.kmz)'.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Import the KMZ file in a new Photoshop document, and you shall find the form of the object, without its skin.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Save the file as a PSD and close it. Put it in a new folder, together with a copy of the DAE folder in which you found the skin as a JPG.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the 3D panel open the layer SketchUp, open its sub-layer instance_0, open its sub-layer Component_1 and select its sub-layer Material. See how the Properties panel changes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the Properties panel click at the bottom the left folder button, called Normal:. Choose 'Load structure' and select the JPG. There you are.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(After this, you cannot choose 'Load structure' again.)</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the 3D panel open the layer SketchUp, and select the sub-layer Material. See how the properties panel changes.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the Properties panel, nearly at the bottom (you might have to strech the panel a bit), click the folder-button and choose 'Load structure' and select the skin in the DAE sub-folder. You might expect the structure to appear between the structures that are already present (see below), but that is not the case. You must now click the arrow next to Diffusion, and [2014] then choose the name of the structure JPEG, or [2015] choose Swap Structure and choose the skin from the DAE. There you are.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(After this, you cannot choose 'Load structure' again. Close and re-open the file for that.)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[2014] I exported the 3D layer from Photoshop as KMZ. I then imported that in SketchUp. Only a wireframe appeared.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The KMZ file is a zip file, just like f.e. an ePub or a Style Builder STYLE file.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Change the extension of it to .zip, and unzip it. Mac: search for mac + file + change + extension.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You now have a file called doc.kml and a folder called models.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the folder you find a file called untitled.dae. You also find another folder there called untitled, containing the skin, called texture.jpg. These files of course can be used to import the file correctly in SketchUp.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Photoshop you can work with this new DAE also of course, and note that the object is much brighter then the one obtained through the KMZ file.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In Photoshop 2015 this is different now. There is no KMZ export option anymore. Now you have a seperate menu item, 'Share 3D layer in Sketchfab'.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That was untill the november release. Its is like in 2014 now again. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For Sketchfab see https://sketchfab.com/. Go there and click 'See more cool features' for an introductory video.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">OBJ files are commonly referred to as Waterfront files. </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Importing als OBJ file is not possible with SketchUp freeware, but search on sketchup obj import plugin.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We shall export an OBJ file from SketchUp, import it in Photoshop, edit it there and save it as an OBJ file. And that will be the end of this paragraph, because you can export OBJ from SketchUp Pro, but not import it in Sketchup without the plugin. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Repeat the first steps again but now choose for exporting as 'OBJ File (*obj)'. See the 'OBJ Export Results' panel and click OK.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See above the files that were exported. The MTL file is a so calles Alias file, used in Autodesk. Although you have a folder with the material JPG, the MTL file is also a material file.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Import the OBJ file in a new Phtoshop document.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To be able to change the material, you now have to click the layer that you see selected here above.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Save as PSD just to be sure.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do 3D > 'Export 3D Layer' and export i<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t</span> as OBJ.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See all the files you get below here.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3DS files are Autodesk files ('3D Studio').</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It is not possible to export as 3DS from SketchUp freeware.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is a short paragraph, because importing a 3DS file in Photoshop 2014 or 2015 does not give any results that can be edited. Apart from that, Photoshop 2014 or 2015 cannot export 3DS. </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Export the object from SketchUp as 3DS file, choosing '3DS File (*.3ds)'. See the files you get above.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Importing a 3DS file in a Photoshop document worked well in CS6, although the object was quite dark (we saw this before). See above.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Importing it in Photoshop CC 2014 or 2015 does not work, although the material did show. See below.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Exporting as 3DS.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Photoshop CS6 cannot export as 3DS, nor can CC 2014.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We shall export a skin, for working on it in Photoshop, and import it again in Sketchup.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I make a rectange in SketchUp, and export it: File > Export > 3D Model > 'Collada File (*.dae)'. I get, apart from the DAE file, a folder with a 2D skin, a JPG, which I open in Photoshop.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I then work on that and export it as a JPG again.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Be sure that A is at 'In Model'. Click B so that C appears.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Click D (Create Material). Second panel E appears. At F find the skin JPG. Click OK. G appears.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />You now have the skin uploaded in SketchUp, see below.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can use it as any skin, but mind you: you have the skin In Model, in the file that is open now. Close that file without saving and you loose the skin. You can right click the imported skin and save it as an SKM file, SKetchup Material. Save it at Program Files > SketchUp > SketchUp [versie] > Materials, in a new folder. Restart SketchUp and the new folder will appear among the already existing, at H.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As from Photoshop 2015 you cannot import SketchUp objects covered with more then one skin (material).</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Adobe Fuse files can be uploaded to your CC Library, and from there you can place it in a file. See above. Exported as DAE it can be imported in SketchUp. See below, covered with the TIN.</span></span> </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Selecting the model, right clicking and choosing 'Soften Edges' results in what you se below. I am still working on this.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I shall add co<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mments on working in SketchUp with Adobe Project Felix objects soon.</span> </b></span></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808501577042524321.post-39488552723854673262014-01-07T18:00:00.000+01:002020-05-27T12:38:29.055+02:002019: Generate UV's<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not much news. Well, there is a new 3D function in the Photoshop 3D menu, Generate UV's. It will unwrap UV maps for your 3D model. If you do not use this before exporting the file to f.e. Sketchfab, skins will be absent in your online model.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* Create or open a 3D model in Photoshop</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* 3D > Generate UV's</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* 3D > Export 3D Layer</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* Choose for exporting as Collada</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* Export</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You made a DAE file with its skins in PSD's. You can work on these PSD's of course. Opening the DAE in SketchUp produces a kind of wire model, but you can work on it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* Create or open a 3D model in Photoshop</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* 3D > Generate UV's</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* 3D > Export 3D Layer</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* Choose for exporting as Collada</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* In the export dialog panel at the bottom choose for PNG</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* Export</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You now made a DAE file with its skins in PNG's. This you can open as a complete object in SketchUp, and use it to send it to Sketchfab.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808501577042524321.post-88769794573586948092014-01-06T18:04:00.000+01:002020-02-09T18:05:21.613+01:002020: Dimension workaround<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Not much news again. If you export a not too simple model from SketchUp as DAE, and you open it in a new document in Photoshop, things may go wrong. I found a work around. Export as SKP and open that in Adobe Dimension. Export as PDF. Problem solved. I must add that opening SketchUp DAE's in Photoshop has already improverd in the last two years.</b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com