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How do you get topography in SketchUp?
1. Next create a grouped rectangle that covers the entire site.
2. Move your grouped rectangles (slicing planes), over your terrain again (or unhide).
3. Hide or delete your slicing planes Now you have a topographic map!
4. Sketchup will select all of the faces of your topography map.
How do I cut topography in SketchUp?
How do you do contours in SketchUp?
1. Select all the contour lines you want to use to create a surface.
2. Choose Draw→Sandbox→From Contours from the menu bar (or click the From Contours tool button, if the Sandbox toolbar is visible).
How do I change topography in SketchUp?
1. Double-click the group containing your terrain to edit it.
2. Choose Tools, Sandbox, Smoove from the menu bar to activate the Smoove tool.
3. Type a radius and press Enter.
4. Click somewhere on your terrain surface to start smooving.
How do you do topography?
How do you make a 3d topographic model?
1. 1 Get digital elevation data for the area you wish to model. You will typically download that data as a GeoTiff file.
2. 2 If necessary, crop the section of interest from the larger dataset.
3. 3 Convert that data to a DEM file.
4. 4 Make a 3d model based on the data.
5. 5 Print and enjoy.
How do I get topography from Google Earth to SketchUp?
Simply go back to to File>Geo-location>Add Imagery to expand your site with additional imagery. Lastly, to toggle the 3d site terrain on and off go to File>Geo-location>Show Terrain. If you found this sketchup tutorial on how to import a google map with terrain helpful please like and share it. Until next time.16 mar. 2014
How do I use geolocation in SketchUp?
1. Make sure you’re online.
2. Open the SketchUp file you want to geo-locate.
3. Choose File, Geo-Location, Add Location from the menu bar.
4. Find the area where you want your model to be located.
5. Click the Select Region button to display a cropping rectangle.
How do I use the sandbox in SketchUp?
How do you get contours?
How do contours work?
How do you make contours?
The two ways to establish a contour map are the cross-section method and the trace contour method. To use the cross-section method, set a control or reference line at the center of the lot, then lay out and stake a grid; the elevation is determined at each stake in the grid relative to a benchmark.16 mai 2019
How do you smooth topography in SketchUp?
1. Select the Eraser tool ( ) or press the E key.
2. Tap the Ctrl key (Microsoft Windows) or the Option key (macOS) to toggle Smooth Edges and then “erase” these lines the same way you would to delete them.
Where is Smoove tool SketchUp?
– [Instructor] Smoove, a combination of the words smooth and move, is a tool to create hills, peaks and other lumpy objects. Smoove is found in the Sandbox toolbar. You can find your toolbars under the View menu.