I’ve created my first video tutorial this evening. Recently I’ve found myself needed to create a number of very quick context models for various project sites. Fortunately for me, I remembered a technique that I learned a while ago, using buildings from Google Earth (and more specifically the Google 3d warehouse) to bring into sketchup. I know that a number of you have heard my rants on sketchup and for those who haven’t I’m sure it’ll come up in the future. Needless to say, I’m not typically a sketchup user, but I do have to say, this technique is VERY helpful. Because of the past connection between Google, Google Earth, and (formerly) Google Sketchup, this technique starts and is fundamentally rooted in Sketchup. Don’t worry fellow Rhino and 3D Max users, the next tutorial will talk about how to pull this out of sketchup and into another program.
Check out my video on youtube:
Hopefully this helps! As always, please leave a comment or let me know if there’s anything that needs clarification.
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