Add-on for Blender 2.80, 2.9, 3.0 & 4.0
Clean geometry imported as DAE - Remove doubles, recalculate normals, triangles to quads, limited dissolve and UV unwrap Will also re-join loose geometry and remove imported cameras.
Version 1.6 (pre-Blender 4.2) added the option to remove auto-smoothing of normals
Version 1.7 (Blender 4.2+) added options to clear Custom Split Normals, Apply Transforms and perform Limited Dissolve by material
This is useful if importing models from SketchUp to Blender as DAE
Adds a button to UI menu (Press 'N')
A full tutorial on importing a .dae file export SketchUp into Blender can be found at https://www.dndrawings.com/add-ons
Download:
- Click the green Code button and Download ZIP
- Unzip the downloaded file (you should now have a new folder containing DAEClean_0_1_#.zip, DAEClean.py and Readme.md)
Install:
- Navigate to File->User Preferences->Add-ons
- Click "Install Add-on From File"
- Find DAEClean.py or DAEClean_0_1_#.zip and "Click Install Add-on From File"
- Search for 3D View:DAE Clean and toggle check box
- Click "Save User Settings"
Usage:
- Usually you will import a DAE file before using but can work on any scene
- Select objects to clean in scene
- Press Clean DAE button
- The Status/Info bar in the Blender window will show how many vertices have been reduced from the selected objects