@juantxo said:

It's a pro feature. Just click mountains icon.

Thanks! Unfortunately this didn't give me the level of detail I'm after (can't zoom in far enough).

@juantxo said:

I'm not sure what are you asking, but to import large google earth image there are several methods:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=40627%26amp;hilit=terrain+mesh
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=40413
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=271%26amp;t=6867
http://a4chitect.webng.com/

If you download Skelion plugin, there is a feature to make a mesh of an area, (no image satellite), using NASA’s SRTM Elevation data.
SketchUp ruby API does not have methods to add locations.

Couldn't find such a feature in Skelion, but that grid generator looks interesting!

@dan rathbun said:

@juantxo said:

SketchUp ruby API does not have methods to add locations.

True, instead you set the "TZOffset", "Latitude" and "Longitude" attributes of the model's ShadowInfo hash.

The SketchUp API also has Geom::LatLong and Geom::UTM class objects.

Doesn't TZOffset only change the time zone? Also changing Latitude/Longitude only let me get two models of the same locations side-by-side. Here's my test code:

mod = Sketchup.active_model # Open model
shadowinfo = mod.shadow_info
shadowinfo["Latitude"] = shadowinfo["Latitude"] +0.001
shadowinfo["Longitude"] = shadowinfo["Longitude"]+0.001
shadowinfo["TZOffset"] = shadowinfo["TZOffset"]+0
UI.messagebox("Latitude; " + shadowinfo["Latitude"].to_s +
"\nLongitude; " + shadowinfo["Longitude"].to_s +
"\nTZOffset; " + shadowinfo["TZOffset"].to_s)

Thoughts?

Great idea! Maybe this could be used similarly?
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=484308

http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/116816

Any way to automate this? I can stitch them together but grabbing all the locations for large zoomed-in spaces takes forever.

File > Geo-location > Add location...

New to SketchUp and Ruby. Is there any API to modify this^? I want to auto-select an adjacent area to mine and grab it.

Bump

Doesn't seem to do anything, cool file though. Any other ideas?

On Windows, the file was located in C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\Support

File > Geo-location > Add location...

I would like to get a large chunk of terrain at max zoom, far bigger than the 'Select Region' option will allow. The best option I could find was to pan around the first selection and gather adjacent regions in multiple grabs, but for what I'm working on that would take hours if not days!

Can this be automated? Combining the imported locations afterward is not an issue:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40627