From SketchUp to SimCity 4
Thursday, August 17, 2006 (00:57 UTC)
Another milestone on the way to mirror world - virtual world convergence: On the SketchUp Pro user forum, "starrdarcy" shows us how to turn SketchUp models into SimCity 4 models. The only hiccup: You need to first export your SketchUp model as a 3DS file, and that's not something the free version of SketchUp does. (Are there free/cheap third-party converters out there?) Also, there is still some tweaking to do to get from before to after — it's not push-button yet. But the resulting eye candy is glorious:

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The latest blender imports sketchup models and exports .3ds
Posted by: Joc at 5:50 UTC, August 17, 2006
I'm looking for SimCity 5.
Posted by: CZhakis at 19:04 UTC, April 05, 2009
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