COLLADA (Collaborative Design Activity) Reader/Writer

Overview

FME can read/write COLLADA (COLLAborative Design Activity) files.

COLLADAâ„¢ is a format for establishing an open standard digital asset schema for interactive 3D applications. It was originally developed by Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA). However, COLLADA is now a standard of the non-profit Khronos Group Inc.

For more information on the COLLADA format, go to http://collada.org.

COLLADA Product and System Requirements

Format

Product

Operating System

Reader/Writer

FME Form

FME Flow

FME Flow Hosted

Windows 64-bit

Linux

Mac

Reader

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Writer

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Reader Overview

The COLLADA reader produces an FME feature for the model contained in a dae file.

The reader produces a single feature containing the entire model. The feature will have a multi-surface geometry which contains the meshes described in the source data.

Writer Overview

The COLLADA writer produces a .dae file for each FME feature type that it sends to the writer.

IFMESurface and IFMEMesh geometry is converted into COLLADA triangle mesh structures. IFMELine geometry is converted into COLLADA linestrips. Texture files are written to a common folder and referenced by COLLADA models for each instance of a COLLADA writer.

By default, COLLADA models are written with Z-up coordinates in meters.

In FME Workbench, the COLLADA Writer supports feature type fanout and will write a different COLLADA model file for each feature type.

Note: Geometry structure is preserved in the written file. If the structure is not important, you can reduce file size by running features through the Triangulator transformer's TINSurface port, followed by an Aggregator transformer. This results in the smallest representation possible.

Old files in the output folder are overwritten by the new files with the same name. If the output files cannot be written, the translation fails.

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