Google SketchUp blog explains GIS workflow

[KaylaFolkins]

On the blog last Friday they included a video from Green Mountain Geographics that outlines how SU and ArcGIS 10 work together:

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/10/arcgis-10-and-sketchup-8.html#links

Friends again - yay!  😉

[JakubSisak]

This is fantastic Kayla!
If i could rate on this forum, you would get all the points possible fir this little tidbit.

[KennyMorris]

Does anybody know if this same workflow works with ArcGIS 9.3.1?

[JakubSisak]

Collada export is new in version 10 so this blog article only applies to version 10.

This only means that you cannot export ArcGIS multipatch to SketchUp but you can use the SketchUp 6 plugin to export TIN and vector feature classes. (In version 10 vector featurs cannot be easily exported unless polygons which need to be converted to multipatch first)
In ArcGIS 9.3.1 and older you can use a command to import SketchUp 6 models but georeference information is not imported.

[KennyMorris]

Collada export is new in version 10 so this blog article only applies to version 10.

This only means that you cannot export ArcGIS multipatch to SketchUp but you can use the SketchUp 6 plugin to export TIN and vector feature classes. (In version 10 vector featurs cannot be easily exported unless polygons which need to be converted to multipatch first)
In ArcGIS 9.3.1 and older you can use a command to import SketchUp 6 models but georeference information is not imported.

Thank you for the response. I have Sketchup 8, don't know if that makes a difference. Do you know of an article explaining the command line procedure? Also do you know of a solution to georeferencing?

[JakubSisak]

Import3DFiles_3d  (in_files, out_featureClass, {root_per_feature}, {spatial_reference},  {y_is_up})

For additional info search help for "Import 3D Files"

As for georeferencing; you have to move and rotate manually.

[KennyMorris]

Thanks for your help

[Gert_van_Maren]

Hi, there is also a video on the 3DGIS resource center showing this particular work-flow:

http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/3dgis/default.aspx

Regards Gert

[JakubSisak]

Hi, there is also a video on the 3DGIS resource center showing this particular work-flow:

http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/3dgis/default.aspx

Regards Gert

Thanks Gert. This blog explains version 10 work flow, Kenny wnats to be able to do this with ArcGIS 9.3.1

[JakubSisak]

Hi, there is also a video on the 3DGIS resource center showing this particular work-flow:

http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/3dgis/default.aspx

Regards Gert

Is there a solution for vector features? More specifically points and polylines? Polygons can be converted to multipatch so this is an OK workaround but what if i would like to export points, polylines, polygons and multipatch features to SketchUp, modify them and import back into ArcGIS?
I tried KML but KML exported from ArcGIS fails to import into SketchUp.