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Mar 16, 2014 · The process of importing google earth terrain and/or map into sketchup is pretty seamless (probably because when google first acquired sketchup they were hoping to use it to populate the 3d buildings in google earth). So lets get right to it. Once you generally know where your site location is, open sketchup, hit the.
Sep 13, 2015 · There are two ways to get to the maps tools in SketchUp. The first is very simple. The icon for Google Maps is located in the getting started toolbar at the top of the screen. The second is to activate the Google toolbar. Navigate to view at the top of the screen, then select the toolbars option.
Modeling Terrain for Google Earth. If your model is geolocated with the Add Location feature and you want to display it in Google Earth, you may need to take a few extra steps. Here’s a quick overview of the tips and tricks that help your model looks its best in Google Earth:
Jul 19, 2023 · hideoshiraishi July 19, 2023, 9:54pm 1. I have a shapefile (also other relevant files, shared in Google Drive) which I imported to SketchUp Pro (version 23.0.419 64bit). At first I loaded satellite images from geolocation menu as a base map. To import shapefiles, I installed spirix_shapefile_importer.rbz from this web site.
Dec 21, 2017 · You haven’t been able to do geo-location from Google Earth for many versions of SketchUp. The last Google geo-location used google Maps. But since Spring of this past year, the only geo-location option for SketchUp 2017 Make is maps. No terrain and no imagery.
To show the terrain, Go to “File” -> “Geo-Location” -> “Show Terrain”. This will model the flat site up into a terrain model by referring to the accurate data provided by Google Earth. Once you are happy with how your site terrain model looks, the next step is to save your Sketchup model, ready to import into Rhino..
