Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SKM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SKM to another file type
To convert SKM materials or videos to another format, you need Trimble SketchUp or other 3D software.
Convert a file to SKM
To convert other file formats to the "3D Model Texture Material" file type, you need software like Trimble SketchUp or a similar tool.
About SKM files
.SKM files primarily function as SketchUp Material files used by Trimble SketchUp to store textures and colors for 3D models. A secondary use is for older mobile phone video files encoded by Nexencoder or SK Telecom. You can open material files in Trimble SketchUp or view the video variants in media players like VLC. SketchUp material files are proprietary and only natively work inside SketchUp. You cannot easily share a texture applied in an .SKM file with someone using external 3D software without extracting it first. The mobile video format is highly obsolete, making playback on modern devices practically impossible without dedicated decoders. For SketchUp materials, the best target formats are standard images like JPG or PNG which permanently extract the texture but lose SketchUp-specific scaling data. For video, converting to standard MP4 ensures maximum compatibility. This file format is difficult to open because the SketchUp variant relies on specific 3D software rendering environments, and the mobile variant uses proprietary legacy codecs. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SKM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SKM file to JPG, PW, SKP, PDF, SQM, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP or ICO, you can use Trimble SketchUp or similar software from the "SketchUp Material File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to SKM, try Trimble SketchUp or another comparable tool in the "SketchUp Material File" category.
The SKM Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SKM converter.