Free DAE to SKP converter
Convert COLLADA (.dae) files to SketchUp
Drop in a .dae, .kmz or zip and get a .skp with its components, materials and textures, and clean faces instead of a triangle mesh. The files stay on your device.
Experimental: results may vary. if you have problems.
How to convert DAE to SKP
- Click Choose .dae files and select the .dae with its texture images, or drop the .zip or .kmz it came in.
- Wait while your browser reads the model and rebuilds its faces.
- Click Download .skp and open it in SketchUp with File › Open.
What carries over
- Components: shared nodes become SketchUp components, placed with their own position, rotation and scale. Other nodes become groups, nested the same way as in the file.
- Materials: colors, transparency and texture images with their placement.
- Size and orientation: taken from the file's own units and up axis.
- Clean faces: flat triangles that share a material are merged back into SketchUp faces, and edges inside curved surfaces are softened, using the file's normals.
- Not kept: animation, bones, cameras, lights and loose lines.
How we checked it
We exported a SketchUp 2026 house model to COLLADA with our SKP to DAE converter and converted it back. All 59 reused components came back as SketchUp components, with every material and texture, and the model's position and size matched the original to the millimetre. We also tested hand-written files using centimetres, Y up, polygons with more than four sides and textures linked the long way round, through COLLADA's sampler and surface parameters.
Other ways to get a DAE into SketchUp
- SketchUp desktop imports COLLADA itself (File › Import), including the free SketchUp Make 2017. If you have it, that works too.
- No SketchUp at hand, on the free web version, or sending the model to someone who'd rather just open a .skp? That's what this converter is for.
Related tools
Going the other way? The SKP to DAE converter writes a COLLADA file with textures. For OBJ and STL files, use the OBJ to SKP and STL to SKP converters.
DAE to SKP questions
Is this DAE to SKP converter free?
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Yes. There's no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit. The conversion runs on your own device, so there's nothing for us to charge for.
Is my file uploaded?
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No. Your browser reads the DAE and writes the SketchUp file itself. We never receive the model.
How do I include the textures?
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A .dae points to its texture images as separate files. Choose the .dae and the images together, or drop the .zip or .kmz they came in. If an image is missing, the result says which one, and you can add it without starting over.
Are components kept?
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Yes. Parts the DAE places as shared nodes (instance_node), which is how SketchUp and most 3D apps export repeated objects, become SketchUp components, so all copies stay linked. Other objects become groups.
Do I need to pick units?
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No. COLLADA files record their units and up axis, and the converter uses them, so the model comes in at its real size and upright.
Which SketchUp versions can open the result?
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SketchUp 2017 and every version since, including the current one. Pick SketchUp 2016 under "Save for" if that's what you have. SketchUp 2015 and older aren't supported.
What about animated or rigged models?
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SketchUp has no animation or bones, so skinned meshes from game assets are left out and the result says so. Static meshes in the same file convert normally.
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