- Homepage: https://github.com/rpavlik/sketchupToOSG
- Downloads: https://github.com/rpavlik/sketchupToOSG/downloads
- Release Changelog: https://github.com/rpavlik/sketchupToOSG/blob/master/CHANGELOG.mkd
- Documentation: https://github.com/rpavlik/sketchupToOSG#readme
Original Author:
Ryan Pavlik rpavlik@iastate.edu abiryan@ryand.net http://academic.cleardefinition.com
Iowa State University HCI Graduate Program/VRAC
Google SketchUp is a pretty slick application, and OpenSceneGraph
(OSG) is a great 3D rendering system. SketchUp can export its models
to COLLADA (.dae), and OpenSceneGraph conveniently has a plugin
to load COLLADA models, though it (and/or its dependencies) can be tough
to build. You could create native .osg/.ive models by exporting to
COLLADA, then using osgconv to convert them. Since SketchUp has
support for plugins written in Ruby, why not combine the steps and make
a plugin that bundles a COLLADA-capable OSG build and can set up the
COLLADA export and conversion processes for the best results?
Well, that's what this is - a plugin for combining those steps. It's been useful to us - hopefully it's useful to you as well!
If you have modifications or improvements, they're gratefully appreciated. Just use GitHub to fork/edit the scripts, then send a pull request if you'd like your improvements integrated upstream.
A simple installer is now available - just download it from GitHub. If you would prefer to do it the hard way, see "Manual Installation," below.
No matter how you install, the results are the same. SketchUp should have an Export to OpenSceneGraph menu under File next time you start it.
We have only used this with the free version of Google SketchUp 8 on Windows - compatibility with other versions is unknown.
The installer has been built with Inno Setup, so the normal command-line arguments used by that installer system are available. In particular, if you want to run an unattended install that shows the progress dialog while it's working, run a command like:
setup-sketchupToOpenSceneGraphPlugin-VERSIONGOESHERE.exe /SP- /SILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES
For an unattended install that doesn't show any windows at all, run something like:
setup-sketchupToOpenSceneGraphPlugin-VERSIONGOESHERE.exe /SP- /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES
Unzip this somewhere, and drop the osgconv folder and the
openscenegraph_exportviacollada.rb file into your Google SketchUp
Plugins folder, something like:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins
This plugin is free and open-source software.
The Ruby scripts serving as the SketchUp plugin may be distributed under the following license:
Copyright Iowa State University 2011
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
(See accompanying file
osgconv/LICENSE_1_0.txtor copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
A local copy of fileutils.rb from the upstream Ruby project is bundled.
An actual in-use instance of this plugin makes use of the OpenSceneGraph package and its dependencies, including but not limited to COLLADA-DOM, which have their own licenses.
If you find this useful, we would appreciate hearing from you. If you use this for academic work, we would also appreciate a copy of the publication and a citation: this helps make a case for our work. You may contact the main developer, Ryan Pavlik (Iowa State University), by email at rpavlik@iastate.edu or abiryan@ryand.net.
Paper materials and copies of publications may be mailed to:
Ryan Pavlik
Virtual Reality Applications Center
1620 Howe Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011-2274
USA
Of course, this plugin would not be possible without the work of the OpenSceneGraph and COLLADA-DOM teams. Thanks to them and the others in the open-source ecosystem supporting them.