Add a gallery that imports+exports models and materials from online repositories

In SketchUp ecosystem, the Warehouse website provides a huge collection of community-contributed models.

We can search for any required object, download it, edit it and use it in our composition. This eliminates the need to re-invent the wheel and create all resources from scratch.

Can we have a similar system in Blender? Further, can we do it right from inside Blender?

Let us imagine that there is an editor in Blender, called Gallery (or Library ).

1. We can select any object and materials in our project, and save it the Gallery .
2. It contains resources from our local library, and also from online repositories.
3. It shows thumbnails of all resources
4. In a multi-repository situation, Gallery aggregates the models from all repositories
5. If any online repository requires the user to log in, Gallery manages that for you.
6. A tree panel shows categories of models. This makes it easy to locate the resource.
7. We can search for a specific model/material by description, tags, user-rating or CC license
8. Gallery allows us to vote/rate the models
9. Gallery allows us to select an object and upload (export) it to the selected repository
10. Gallery works with SketchUp models also (e.g. integration with 3D warehouse)

This design can be partly modeled based Synoptic package Manager . It can handle Linux apps from several online repositories.