It was more a note for the developers, I was able to get round it with V5. I don’t use Sketchup that often, it’s what this client uses to vet models before 3D printing (as well as renders) Thanks for the pointers, I’ll bear that in mind. As mentioned, other than this issue the Sketchup exporter is far better than other methods for getting geometry from Rhino to Sketchup, as it retains all texture maps, color, layer structures and vector lines (curves) - which is not the case for the DWG route. The files are only a few hundred KB single objects but export well from Rhino 5. It essentially renders the resulting geometry useless in Sketchup, unless you go in and manually remove the triangulation divide lines in each split surface (after turning on hidden geometry). Note that with Rhino surfaces triangulated in the export process, the resulting geometry surfaces in Sketchup cannot be extruded using the Sketchup push/pull extrude tool, since, even if the diagonals are hidden, Sketchup editing tools read the triangulation.

OBJ file, however the same principles apply to any format that can be imported into Blender for example. This tutorial talks about how to convert any 3D model to SketchUp using Blender, I’m going to use an. Since this can be done with DWG, I was assuming the direct Rhino Sketchup exporter could support the same functionality. Convert any 3D model to SketchUp using Blender. Oddly, this is not the case when exporting Rhino surfaces as DWG and importing the DWG into Sketchup. Even when surfaces in Rhino are 100% planar, the Sketchup exporter splits them. Hi Pascal - I cannot find any “combine planar regions” control in the Rhino to Sketchup export dialog, and it does not appear as an option when opening the resulting Sketchup file.

Sketchup 17 object exporter