Well, it has taken me a while longer than I had thought, but I've almost got export to SketchUp .skp format working for the next beta.
Here's an example - a model created in MoI:
Saved as an .skp file and opened into SketchUp gives this:
SketchUp model is attached here as MoiExportTest.skp .
It's a huge quality improvement over using .3ds format which can only contain triangles. This new exporter preserves planar surfaces in MoI as single large n-gons in SketchUp which can be push/pulled, etc...
Curved surfaces will get diced into triangles (or sometimes quads if they happen to be planar quads) but all the interior edges are hidden for you automatically so there is no edge cleanup type step.
Still have a few details to work out but it is looking promising.
- Michael
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