Sketchup
Plugins
SimLab plugins for SketchUp, Allows you to import and export your designs in few clicks and easily. The plugins are powerful and provide many options to customize your models.
SimLab Soft's SketchUp plugins streamline your 3D workflow, offering effortless import and export of designs with just a few clicks, ensuring high-quality results in minimal steps. Our tools support a wide range of formats like 3D PDF, FBX, GLTF, SKP, USDZ, DWF, DWG, OBJ, STL, and many others, facilitating seamless data exchange for presentations, web, and other software. They provide precise transformation controls (Up Vector, Rotate by, Scaling Multiplier) and support animations and keyframes for dynamic content in formats such as GLTF, PDF, and FBX. Models are always exported with their materials, preserving visual fidelity. These powerful, efficient plugins eliminate common data conversion and compatibility challenges, allowing you to focus on creative design within SketchUp.
Common Questions
- Can SketchUp import SolidWorks, STEP, Creo or NX files?
Yes, with SimLab importer plugins. SimLab offers separate SketchUp importers for SolidWorks, STEP, Creo, NX, Inventor, Parasolid, ACIS, IGES, JT and IFC, so CAD models from these tools can be brought into SketchUp for design and presentation work.
- Which SketchUp plugin should I use to share a model on the web or in AR?
SimLab's GLTF and USDZ exporters for SketchUp produce formats commonly used for web viewers and AR. The 3D PDF exporter creates a shareable 3D PDF. GLTF, PDF and FBX exports also support animations and keyframes.
- Do SimLab SketchUp exporters keep materials?
Yes. According to SimLab, models are always exported with their materials, preserving visual appearance. The exporters also provide Up Vector, Rotate by and Scaling Multiplier controls to correct orientation and scale for the target application.