What is a DAE FBX file?

[Anonymous]

I'm currently working on a robotics project through Unity, which requires STLs and DAEs for the meshes and collision. Maya doesn't seem to have an export option for .DAE, but it does have a DAE-FBX. What's the difference? I can't find any information on it, other than DAE to FBX converters, which isn't super helpful.

Thanks in advance!

[vfxchris]

It's pretty much what you are after. the DAE-FBX exporter will ultimately export a DAE file for you. DAE is a universal  format for sending 3D data to different package, where as FBX is Autodesk's own format (although there is SDKs for other providers so pretty much everyone uses it). As I understand it the DAE-FBX exporter is just Autodesk using their own internal FBX exporter tools to write the DAE format (as the background data that is written is somewhat similar).

I had a client creating an app for iPhone that would only accept DAE files, and I used the FBX-DAE exporter just fine.