COLLADA

Use

You can import and view COLLADA (.dae) files. You can also save files to this format.

Supported for Export

  • Mesh

  • Materials

  • Lights

  • UV texture mapping

  • Cameras

  • Animation (translate and rotate only)

Limitations for Import

  • Support for skin and bone animation

  • Support for skin & bone animation

  • Mapping of camera parameters between COLLADA and SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author not direct

Limitations for Export

  • Support for skin and bone animation

  • Support for skin and bone animation

  • Mapping of camera parameters between COLLADA and SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author not direct

  • No tessellation control

  • No assembly hierarchy support

  • No BOM support based on part names

  • Import/export of simple animated scaling not supported

  • Files greater than 2MB in size lose geometry or show rogue facets, mainly with models greater than 22K facets

  • Image files present within .rh files not exported to the .dae file format

Features

This format contains import options. You can use them to customize the way in which your file is opened.

Import Interface

Field

Functional Description

Join Equal Materials

Multiple vertices with identical coordinates are replaced with a single instance in the data-set, removing redundancy

Remove Duplicate Material

Multiple identical instances of a material are replaced in the Scene Tree with a single instance