

And you can use it for about 30 uses before it actually goes off of trial, so that's a great way to get a quick FBX import. One is called SimLab FBX importer the other one is called FluidImporter Pro. So if we go into our Extension Warehouse and just type FBX into the search box you'll see we get two main plug ins that show up at the top of the list. Either I'm going to have to use an extension or I'm going to have to use an external converter to convert this file to something that SketchUp will recognize. So I'm going to have to do one of two things. Now this is where the problem comes up because if we want to go file, import, you'll see that we don't really have FBX as a native file format. And now we have an FBX file on our hard disk. So when you send an FBX file to someone else, make sure you include both the FBX file as well as the folder with the textures.

So if I go into this FBX house folder, you'll see these are all of the textures I used in this model. But in addition to that, SketchUp will export another folder with all of the textures. Now I've got two entities here in this folder. Now if I want to take a look at what happened I can look at my exercise files folder here. And my export gives me some results and I can click okay. And I'm just going to use the same file name. So I'm going to export it to my exercise files folder. And as you can see we have a number of different formats for export. So I'm going to go file, export, 3D model. So here I have a simple file, and let's go ahead and export it.
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Now the first thing I'm going to show you is how to export FBX. So I'm going to show you how to first export an FBX file and then some methods for importing them as well. But if they give one to you, well, then you have a little bit of a problem because SketchUp does not natively support FBX import.
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Now SketchUp Pro does support FBX export so if you want to give somebody an FBX file, that's great. And it's a great format for getting to and from different software packages. Autodesk uses it extensively as do a number of other software vendors. Now FBX is a very common format for 3D files. Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we're looking at how to work with FBX files in SketchUp.
