Posts made by Howard leslie

Ehaflett,
Thank you very much for your speedy reply and information.
The 3D scenes are pretty interesting.
I'm pleased somebody else is doing this !!!
(and contributing to the forum).
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What I'm interested in doing is attaching various attributes (ie fields of information held in a table) to parts of a building structure. The structure (building) is drawn in SU 6.
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I am reasonably OK with SU and have been using the forerunner to ArcGIS 8/9.x - namely the older ArcView 3.x for quite a while.
Unfortunately this old version of ArcView does not have an SU reader (like the CAD reader) - otherwise I'd be going down that route.
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If you know of an SU Reader / Extension for ArcView 3.x I would be very interested - but I don't think it exists.
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Hence the interest in working with ArcGIS.
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Have you moved data backwards and forwards between SU / ArcGIS and succesfully maintained any tabular attribute information for the SU objects ??? (maintained table links)
eg House / Building Numbers or IDs etc ???
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SU must have some type of unique ID for each piece of geometry that is created in order to achieve this (similar to the "Handle" of AutoCad geometry).
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I'm going to try and get a Trial version of ArcGIS and give it a go working with SU. I'll let you know how I get on, or more likely be getting in touch for assistance !!!
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Thanks once again for your reply
Regards
Howard Leslie

I would be interested to hear of anybody's thoughts / experiences / views on working on any projects involving GIS and SketchUp.
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I've seen our one (and only) link (so far) on such matters in these forums here:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=62
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What I would be interested in is:
Does it work (ie The link between SU and ArcGIS work well) ???
Is it Buggy ???
Does it Crash ???
Can you move backwards and forwards between SU and ArcGIS happily and maintain links to any Tables in the GIS ???
Overall are you happy with it ???
Can it be recommended ???
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Regards
Howard Leslie