The key features for 3DXchange include:
Support SKP files from SketchUp.
Direct Picking and Multiple Item Selection.
Rename Nodes - An effective way to manage your model items.
Export Selected objects - Easier to extract your selected items from the whole scene.
Enhanced Facing and Material Editing - transparency, illumination, and weld vertex.
Exclude SKP back faces - A crucial way to save polygon count.
Hide Excluded Items - This feature simplify scene tree display if users has cleaned up unnecessary back faces.
Seamless Workflow between 3D Warehouse, Google Sketchup and 3DXchange2.
Google 3D Warehouse - Unlimited Free Access to the largest collaborated 3D model library.
Google SketchUp - Free 3D Modeling Tool with native format support to iClone.
Scratch build any 3D model via the most easy-to-use 3D modeling tool.
Auto prompt save skp file when download 3D Warehouse model directly from 3DXchange.
Tools designed for building up massive iClone model libraries - Scenes, Props, and Accessories.
Load and convert 3DS and OBJ files into iClone VNS formats.
Load iClone VNS files for material attribute editing, pivot setting, or bring back individual elements from Merged Props.
Full texture conversion - unwrapped UV, multi sub-material texturing, diffuse, bump, opacity.
Texture format supported: JPG, BMP, PNG, TGA, TIFF.
Support 3DS animation data import and export (spline not supported).
Model Export Filter: check on/off using the Scene Tree to determine what models or model object components are exported to the final VNS file.
Material Editing: material color, glossiness, specular (how shiny the material appears, eg. plastic, metal, glass).
Normal Correction: 2-sided, flip, unify.
iClone Shadow Attribute Setting: Cast Shadow , Receive Shadow.
Scene Transformation: Rotation, Translation, Scaling.
Quick Align to Center and Ground: Auto move the scene to the origin or align scene elements to iClone root ground position.
Edge Smoothness: define hard or soft edge by specified angle threshold.
Pivot Setting: set pivot for rotation in iClone - eg. door - rotate based on edge, wheels - rotate based on center:
Drag and Drop file import: SKP, 3DS, OBJ or VNS file formats.
Scene Tree: multiple elements selection for node attributes editing.
Quick project reload - press F5 to reload last project, effective tuning loop for model creation.
Auto locate and export VNS files to specified iClone folder - Scene, Props, Accessories, user define.
Keep last folder file saved path assigned to save repetitive path finding efforts.