ability to watch for new skp files on hard disk and convert

[ghost]

I was wondering if there is the ability to watch for new skp files and run the sketchup converter automatically.

this is because i have lots of sketchup files that change often.

[rpavlik]

Well, not that I know of offhand easily. You'd probably have to write a separate script to do the directory monitoring and on change, invoke SketchUp for the file, execute the exporter (probably a copy of the ruby script with the options hard-coded).

The exporter just exports to Collada (DAE), which is built-in to sketchup, then converts that file into an OSG format using osgconv and some standard options. The ruby code is pretty readable if an automated tool interests you.

[ghost]

i did soe research. It seems its impossible to evoke sketchup and ask it to do a conversion.
So, the only way is to write it all in c++, and use the sketchup c SDK (http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/sdk_start.html)

buy do i have some work ahead of me.

I am hoping i can just call the same exporte that sketchup uses to convert to collada. The skp2dae in the programs directory