Plugin to merge two different terrains?
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I have a small terrain (about 300x200 meters) which is highly detailed, created after height curves.
I want to merge it with a much larger (1.5 x 1.5 km) GoogleEarth terrain.
Problem is... borders do not match. Some of the detailed terrain borders are floating above the GoogleEarth terrain... other borders sunk into it.
My first thought was stamping the detailed terrain over the GoogleEarth terrain... in theory it should work, however, Sketchup crashes all the time when I try to do it... after 12 tries, sometimes copying only the selection needed to a new GoogleEarth instance, etc, I gave up stamping a complex terrain over another complex terrain. I guess the native stamp tool was thought to stamp "flatter", simpler shapes over a terrain.
So, does anyone remembers a plugin that can help with that? I am only worried about the borderlines btw... I do not need to "mix" the meshes, because I intend to keep the detailed mesh and delete the GoogleEarth mesh for the same area I have the more detailed one.
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Why not give the detailed section a skirt, then position it into the google earth terrain and intersect the skirt so you can remove the section you don't want. Then use smoove and a bit of stitching to align the terrain.
Tig's CutNfill might help too.
http://sketchucation.com/plugin/760-tig-cutnfill -
not sure if this is the solution buy maybe it might help:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=359903#p359903 -
The "Clip" functions seems to have problems with non Google Earth terrain patches. But if you could post or message me the model, I will try to see what I can do to merge them.
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for 2 or more terrains imported from GoogleMaps I always use the Clip or Trim Terrain Mesh plugin. No complaints. But of course, it was not made to use with two terrains that don´t match.
But don´t worry Sdmitch, I followed the "skirt" advice. While draping the terrain over the other terrain crashed Sketchup, draping the detailed terrain over a flat surface worked. Then I just deleted the border of the flat surface and I had my skirt.
(ps: just thought now that instead of draping, I could have selected the entire terrain, used the SELECT ONLY plugin, select only border edges... then the projection tools plugin to extrude lines along a vector... select the bottom edges and resize them... that would also create a skirt.
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