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SolidWorks Labs Unveils COLLADA Export

19 November 2008 4 Comments

SolidWorks COLLADA Add-in SolidWorks Labs has posted an article detailing the upcoming release of a SolidWorks add-in for exporting assemblies to COLLADA.  Save As COLLADACOLLADA is an acronym for COLLAborative Design Activity, whose mission is to create an open standard for interactive 3D applications.  The COLLADA project was begun by Sony to create a standard for exchanging 3D digital data.  There are several other big-name companies participating in the alliance.

There is a video at the SolidWorks Labs blog showing the new COLLADA export in action.  The COLLADA add-in is expected to be available for download on the first of December.

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  • Interesting reading on the wiki about this. Using XML for the new format seems pretty smart and there is a good number of applications already supporting it.

  • Interesting reading on the wiki about this. Using XML for the new format seems pretty smart and there is a good number of applications already supporting it.

  • Interesting reading on the wiki about this. Using XML for the new format seems pretty smart and there is a good number of applications already supporting it.

  • David

    Does anybody knows where I can get this plug-in