Posts made by Joshpatheal

Thanks for the materials. Not alot of them, but all the woods are top notch.

Scott,
the correct way to locate your sketchup model in GE is to use the "Google" toolbar. You must use have both google earth and sketchup open at the same time, go to GE, find a view that has the area of work, and them import that into sketchup using the toolbar. This will give you a scaled image on which you will place your model just like you would like to see it in GE (make sure its scaled properly). Make sure to toggle the terrain on so that you can locate the poles on the Z axis correctly. after you locate the features where they need to be, you can export the model to a .kmz file that you can view in google earth. Here is a video from the 3D basecamp that does a geat job of describing how this is supposed to work.

http://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2008/all-sessions-2008/introduction-to-geomodeling-with-sketchup-and-google-earth

Its a long video, but i recommend watching the whole thing if u can.

Here is a great video by Mason Thrall at the 3D basecamp 2008

http://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2008/all-sessions-2008/sketchup-and-digital-photography

he talks about the kind of photos that work with the "Match photo" tool in sketchup. You cant use it on every photo and you need to watch out for image distortion if your worried about accuracy.

Google posted all of the videos from the 3D basecamp and they are all quite use full. You can find the entire list here:

http://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2008/