How to prevent triangulation of models when importing models from sketchup to blender? I want to import Sketchup models in blender. For that, I tried exporting models form sketchup in various formats using the built in exporter in Sketchup followed by import in blender. The model looked fine in Sketchup but when I imported it in blender using "Import Model", the model's body mesh gets triangulated. This is making the model useless for me as it is very hard to work with in blender. Especially circular parts gets triangulated to a number of portions and are very hard to scale/ rotate etc.
Please suggest how should I import/export the model correctly.

In sketchup


In Blender


I tried the procedure above for 


Collada
obj
3dS Max


The model looks same with all formats.

Link to sketchup model: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=a91cb0fd50d4b2cc5599acd1021b314d&amp;prevstart=0
You can't (at least - not the way you want)

SketchUp very cleverly abstracts away the underlying geometry by rendering all connected faces on the same plane as one surface (unless you tell it not to). With this visual abstraction SketchUp allows surfaces to have gaps.

Blender's geometry model, known as BMesh, treats surfaces differently, it has a model of Tris, Quads and Ngons. BMesh does not allow holes in an Ngon (by design). By extension of this fact, you won't have exactly the same representation in Blender as you would in SketchUp for the same model. Blender won't magically abstract connected faces on the same plane into surfaces the way SketchUp does.



The loaded geometry will be correct, but in edit mode you will see the real geometry the way it exists in the .dae.

Blender is designed to let you edit the underlying geometry. it is a true polygon modeller. Ngon support with BMesh is a relatively recent development -- before that it was quads and tris only.

What you could do is:   


enter Edit Mode for each object
select all 
Delete -> Limited Dissolve


You will get a mesh that is perhaps more convenient.

Another option is to press Alt+J in edit mode, wich will transform all the triangles into quads.