I feel ripped off. Lost my Geo-Location.
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I'm pretty much retired so I decided SU19 was it for me. I can't justify the subscription model.
However, it seems that a feature of my licence has been removed, specifically, Geo-Location.I first started with SU5 with AtLast, cost me a good chunk of change too, AU$800/900 I think.
And when Geo-Locate came out it was a game changer, I was doing a lot of landscape design and accurate shadow studies were invaluable. And still are.So it seems that Geo-Location has been removed from my version of SU. But I paid for it, so how can this be?
And before Trimble apologists batter me with excuses, I have read several posts on other forums which fully explain the technical/licensing issues.
I don't feel like these issues are my problem though. My problem is that I have had a function of my licensed software arbitrarily removed.
Not happy, Class action anyone?
Notwithstanding the above, does anyone know of a workaround to allow me to Geo-locate my models in SU19?
Oh boy, awaiting the storm...
Baz
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Open a model in v2019.
Open the Model Info dialog.
In the list on the left, about half-way down is 'Geo-Location'.
Use that to set up your model's position... -
Thanks Tig. Forgot all about that. Problem solved. Cheers.
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Am a little bit surprised that no one, apart from Tig with a workaround, has responded to this.
Everyone has moved on I s'pose.
Getting old is a bugger. -
It appears to be solved, so what more is there to say.
Unless it isn't solved for you Baz, if not you need to explain which part of geo-location you need. -
Well as Tig suggested I can punch the Lat Long in. But with no imagery/contours as per the 'Geo-Location' that I have had the use of for 10+ years..
...I repeat, this was a feature which I paid for that has been removed from my licensed software.
And although I can set the actual location manually, which is still useful for shadow studies, I can't see anyway to get the actual geometry of the location into the model as I used to.
I am not expecting any satisfaction here, I think Trimble has some sort of 'get out' in the fine print.
Doesn't stop me being pissed off 'tho.
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Fair enough.
I tend to filter out any sorts of rants in threads these days and try to only read any actual questions in them, which left me wondering why you wanted people to respond more. Once I looked at your post again I realised there was more to it.
I don't use geolocation often so I can't really add anything.
Sorry about that.
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Cheers Box.
Hopefully there might be a way of getting 'Sandbox' type geo-location into legacy SU, but I won't be holding my breath.
My extreme workaround, (which I just thought of), could be to import a bitmap image of the contours, trace 'em and work 'em to their elevations. Then Drape the image? PITA but doable, I think. -
If they were getting the dataset from Google and that contract is no longer in effect then I would expect it to stop eventually.
Annoying? Yes, but expected.
I've used this https://github.com/vvoovv/blender-osm in Blender to bring in terrain, building and road etc then then export to .dae to SketchUp. Not as detailed as the default Add Location but as a bonus you get roads, rivers and basic building too.
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Rich me old darling, thank you for the mind bending, over complicated and frankly beyond me workaround.
You say: 'That contract is no longer in effect'. But that has nothing to do with my contract.
You say: 'I would expect it to stop eventually'. Nobody told me the software was limited in that way.
You say: 'Annoying? but expected.' Expected by who? Certainly not me.I am no lawyer, but natural justice seems to being abused here.
C'mon, class action anyone?
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