In this section, you will find information about how to use the plug-in.

Installation

For this plug-in you need to have Blender 2.41 or later installed. You can download it from www.blender3d.org.

Besides Blender, you also need to install the standalone version of Python, version 2.41 or later *. You can download Python from www.python.org.

* NOTE: this plug-in does not work with Python 2.5.

Ok, once you have the right software, download the latest release of this plug-in and unzip everything into your [BLENDER_HOME]/.blender/scripts directory where BLENDER_HOME is your installation directory for Blender (for example "C:/Program Files/Blender Foundation/Blender").

Make sure the colladaImEx folder is in .scripts/bpymodules/

Then (re)start Blender and you'll find the importer in File->Import->Collada 1.4 (.dae)... The same works for the exporter.

If the importer/exporter is not listed, make sure you copied the files into the right directory. You can also try to re-evaluate the script: Go to the User Preferences -> File Paths. Then click the button next to the 'Python:' setting (see figure below)

If you don't have the rights to put the scripts into this folder, just place them anywhere on your hard drive and set the 'scriptsDir' variable in colladaImport14.py and colladaExport14.py to point to that dir.