Hey Design Nation today we're going to learn how to import a Google map
location into your sketchup model.
So currently I have Google.com open and if you want to search for a particular
location you can type in maps.google.com
and that will bring you to a particular location so if there's a site that you
want to bring into Sketchup and you sort of want to browse around for the site or see what
it looks like in Google Maps you can do that so that's actually what I'm going
to do today. For instance if you know the location of the address of the
site that you want you can type that in to this portion here, hit 'search' And it will
bring it up. This little icon down here will bring up a satellite view so you
can see the site that I want to import into Sketchup it actually isn't this
it's a little bit over... it's right here. This site here. so if you
right-click on this you can hit 'what's here'. So let's say you're just searching
around a city or something and you find a location... If you hit 'what's here' it'll
pop up the address. So my address is a little off so I'm going to copy this
and we're going to import this into Sketchup now. Once you have Sketchup open
if you go to file let's scroll down to geolocation there's an option for add
location so if you click on that it's going to pop up essentially Google Maps
this is actually I think Google Earth this is where this is taken from and you
can actually easily import from Google Earth if you use that so I'm going to
paste in my address looks like I need a little bit more information so I'm going
to hit Search it brings up my area so what you do now is you can zoom out and
you select the area that you want so the further in that you zoom the more detail
you're going to get further out you zoom the less detail you're going to get but
the more information site information you're going to get so I'm not going to
go all the way in here I'm going to just sort of leave this here but I'm going to
select this region just move these little pins and then hit grab and it's
going to import into my Sketchup file now if you go to file and scroll down to
geolocation now there's an option here that says show terrain so if you hit
show terrain it's going to add contours to the site which is really helpful for
you if you're modeling it's rough on the systems accurate as a survey would be
but it gives you a decent quick overview of sort of what the site contours look
like if for any reason you might want to add on to this let's say there's a I
don't know what's over here but I want the next your neighbor's house you can
go back to file geolocation add more imagery and it'll let you you can sort
of rotate around let's say I want this blue house you can select this region
hey grab and it's going to add that to my site so if you toggle you can see
this is contoured right now if you want to show terrain you can turn that off
depending on how much you add this can really slow down your models so you want
to be careful with how much information you are importing but this should help
get you started modeling your site or modeling your building on your site and
it actually is really simple from this to import into Google Earth so you can
show clients what their building looks like in context we'll go over that in
another session if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment
if you'd like to see the full write-up of this tutorial
head on over to WWE Tag Team forward slash Sketchup Google Maps until
next time happy hacking there's anything in here so they click I
can't find anything it's going on but if you
whew I'm gonna hit job tree so there's all these little things