Posts made by jharper

Anybody? Still having the same problem. I've tried reinstalling Sketchup and Google Earth but they're still not matching.
Thanks!

Hi,

I've just started using Sketchup again after a few years and I'm having a real problem with terrain.

I'm basically wanting to draw a track across a fairly hilly area. The problem I'm having is that before I even start drawing anything, the terrain data that is being loaded in via 'add location doesn't match the terrain data in google earth.

I've attached a sample kmz which is basically the "Google Earth Terrain" layer with default styling applied to the mesh; it is important to note this hasn't been moved at all.

Has anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? It seems bizarre that both sets of data come from google but they're different and it's fairly critical it's correct in this instance that the terrain match is spot on.

I read from another post that if you don't add a location first it can cause alignment issues. I can confirm that it was the first thing I did. Also my google earth preferences are set to have an elevation exaggeration factor of 1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ta

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Export of Google Earth Terrain layer directly out of Sketchup