

- all kinds of free models from the space program.- furniture models without registering.- 3D model search engine with previews in 3D.There may be many separate objects, so select what you want to combine and hit CTRL+J to join them all into one object.There will usually be a lot of doubles, so remove them with WKEY->remove doubles.Try scaling it down so it’s no more than a few BU on a side.

This is because it is scaled very large (several hundred Blender Units on a side). You may notice parts of the model appearing and disappearing as you try viewing it from different angles.Just select the camera and hit CTRL+LKEY to link it into the new scene. If you try rendering, you may not see anything, because the default camera is only linked into the original default scene named “Scene”. You may also find additional scenes created with nothing in them, that you can delete. The model imports into a new Blender scene, called something like “SketchupScene” or “SketchupScene001”.Tips: I’ve tried importing a few of these 3D Warehouse models, and so far I’ve only noticed a couple of issues: Fixing these to be usable will push your blender skills to new levels in some cases.

Note: some of the 3d warehouse models can't be understood by blender due to a zillion repeating elements, others will show up invisible (one sided, or inside out), be gigantic in size, or all parented to some crazy spot out in space.

zip files with a collada inside them, so just rename and unzip)
