Links here. Two new high end importers, two different purposes.
- SKIMP : skimp is a new professional import extension designed to make it fast and easy to import high-fidelity models into SketchUp!
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- TRANSMUTR : Convert various 3D formats to SketchUp files, with powerful features such as geometry simplification, automated render-ready materials and proxies, as well as essential options like scaling, unit conversion, axes/origin transformations and much more.
" ... But we think our products are still quite different (compare to Skimp). Transmutr is very rendering-oriented, which Skimp is not.
His simplification seems to work better, and it’s not the focus of Transmutr. That’s why we think both can be useful in different ways... ", Transmut team.