Monday, June 20, 2011

Google Earth and Civil 3D

This is a topic that has been covered numerous times, but I have been asked several times in the past two weeks.  It seems that a few of you are having issues bringing in a surface from Google Earth.  As many of you have seen in the past when bringing in Google Earth surface, it tends to get stuck importing around 49 or 50%.  In newer builds of Google Earth, the amount of points that could be imported as gone from 10,000 down to 5,000.  In order to remedy the situation, we need to look at the two command settings of ImportGEdata and ImportGEsurface under surfaces.


Upon editing each of the commands, you will see Google Earth rows and columns.  As the screen capture below depicts below, we need to change both values to 70.  The value of 70 is arrived at because 70 times 70 is 4900, and 5000 point are allowed.


By making the row and column change in both command settings, the GE surface should import into our drawings as expected.


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