topic Re: ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available??? in 3D Questions

ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available???

KhyatiPatel — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:59:16 GMT

ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available???

Re: ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available???

TimothyHales — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:55:18 GMT

There is not a Google Sketchup 8 plug-in. It looks like there is not one after version 6.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=23f116248420b260&hl=en

Is there something in particular that you are trying to do? You can still import Sketchup models into ArcGIS, but you will need to save it as version 6.

Re: ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available???

KhyatiPatel — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:58:33 GMT

I want to create a 3D model (175 hectares of city area).

I thought of digitizing the facilities on satellite image in ArcMap and then import them to GoogleSketchup - paste digital photos as textures (to make them look real) - and then export the skp model to arcscene - then add walkway, trees, people etc - create animation as well.

Please suggest if you got a better way to work on it.

Thanks.

Re: ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available???

Anonymous User — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:30:06 GMT

Original User: jbswain

This is the recommended workflow for creating the buildings. Bear in mind you want to keep the textures on the multipatches as simple as possible as the more intensive the textures are the harder it will be for ArcScene to display them.

Re: ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available???

JakubSisak — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:54:17 GMT

I want to create a 3D model (175 hectares of city area).

I thought of digitizing the facilities on satellite image in ArcMap and then import them to GoogleSketchup - paste digital photos as textures (to make them look real) - and then export the skp model to arcscene - then add walkway, trees, people etc - create animation as well.

Please suggest if you got a better way to work on it.

Thanks.

You can do the entire model ground up in Sketchup. You can pull in google earth imagery into sketchup using the default tool then digitize buildings on the imagery and create your model right there. It's quite easy to bring in and reference whatever other imagery you have. There is huge library of sketchup models such as trees, people, etc. anything you can dream up on the web accesible from within sketchup. Sketchup can easily handle 170 ha.