Today’s video will teach you to export your SketchUp model into Google Earth!
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In today’s SketchUp essentials tutorial, we’re going to talk about exporting your models to Google Earth.
We’ve talked a bit in the past about importing data from Google Maps into SketchUp to geolocate your model. Now, we’re going to talk about taking that geolocated model and exporting into into a Google Earth File.
This is especially important because it can allow you to see your shapes in context to the other buildings in the area.
First thing you’re going to do is geolocate your model. To do this, you’re going to go to the location toolbar and click the button labeled “add location.” This will pop up a window with a Map. Select the area you’d like, then click the “Grab” button.
This will import a map into your model, and it will also add a location to your model. You can see how now in the corner there’s a little red point, and if you mouse over it, there’s a note stating that “this model is accurately geolocated.”
Now you can come in here and create a building.
We’ll just make kind of a skyscraper type shape.
Now, once you’ve kind of modeled your building, you can go up to file, export, and export your file as a KMZ file.
A KMZ file is a geolocated file that Google Earth can read.
Now, open up Google Earth, and go select “Open.”
Open your file, and Google Earth will place it in your model.
The cool thing about this is that you can see your model in a geographic context.
This means that you can see exactly how tall your building would be in relation to other buildings, or how it sits on a site, etc.
You can also drop down into street level view and look up at your building to get a sense of scale.
You can also flip this on and off in order to get an idea of how the existing and proposed site relate to each other.
That’s where I’m going to end this video. Leave a comment below and let me know what you thought!
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