just copy the folder and the rb file into the sketchup plugins directory 2.now open sketchup a small pop up box should have appeared with some brightly coloured buttons, do not press any of them yet. download this plugin for sketchup follow the simple instructions on that page and in the txt file inside the zip you download. this could be helpful for 3d printing as sketchup can be an effective tool for designing your 3d prints and blender can help process them and export to other formats like.

there are other methods i described before but the site i recommended has turned it's back on services for us modellers and is now out for profit and nothing else, here is a new method for achieving the same thing AND not only is it free but it is also better at preserving textures and mapping. what if there was a way to combine the ease of sketchup and the power of blender, model in sketchup, then use blender to animate. PLEASE NOTE:all this plus more is also available at in my experience sketchup is awesome and intuitive for modelling whilst blender is hard and confusing, whilst blender is capable of brilliant animation and rendering where sketchup does neither(really).

Sketchup to blender