Sandbox

[landscapedrew]

Hey everybody I am new to the forum and fairly new to sketch-up. I am a landscape designer and my company focuses primarily on high end residential homes in the coastal wilmington, nc area. I have watched several of the tutorials on the sandbox tools, however i am still having some trouble.

I import my Autocad siteplan with contour lines, select the contours, and then select the sandbox 'from contours' tool and I do not see a sketchup representation of the terrain as i had hoped. Am i missing something? Any help would be appreciated.

[solo]

Welcome to GSCF

Can you post some visuals or a model so that we can better understand your issue?

[Gaieus]

Hi Landscapedraw,

The sandbox creation process should be shown at the bottom of your SU screen. Do you see any process running there? (Sometimes - especially if it is a complex set of contour lines ,-, it can take rather long; even hours!)

If that is an issue, you may be interested in "simplify contours" downloadable from the ruby section of the GSU website (scroll down to the bottom).