freecad-openskp
Native SketchUp (.skp) import and export for FreeCAD, built on OpenSKP - no Trimble SDK required
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GITHUB · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 88%) · 0 views
Niche: computer-aided design software · 169 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- addon
- bim
- cad
- freecad
- sketchup
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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 : 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #117 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- SimpleCAD · github · 2026-10-20 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- SketchUP STEP Importer plugin · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- freecad_solidworks_plugin · github · 2026-10-20 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Open-source CAD in the browser (DXF-native, no install) · hn · 2026-04-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- kovac · github · 2026-10-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I wanted OpenSCAD with fillets and a C-like language. So I made one · hn · 2026-11-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- FreeCAD 1.1 · ph · 2026-03-30 · 218 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Sketchup-Pro-For-Windows · github · 2026-11-12 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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