freecad-openskp
Native SketchUp (.skp) import and export for FreeCAD, built on OpenSKP - no Trimble SDK required
Details
- External ID
- 1367377605
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- freecad-openskp
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.14514476044068664
- Tags
- addon, bim, cad, freecad, sketchup
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- sketchup file importer and exporter for freecad
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Implementing a native 3D CAD file format (.skp) importer/exporter without Trimble's official C++ SDK requires deep reverse engineering of binary 3D geometries, meshes, materials, and CAD topological data structures.
What it would actually take: Building this requires C++ or Python bindings parsing undocumented binary SketchUp file structures or integrating deeply with the OpenSKP library into FreeCAD's OpenCASCADE (B-Rep) kernel. It demands expertise in computational geometry, topological mapping between polygonal meshes and boundary representations, and 3D file format reverse engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 42 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #38 of 43 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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