ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available???

[KhyatiPatel]

ArcGIS 9.3 and GoogleSketchup 8 - plugin available???

[TimothyHales]

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.

[KhyatiPatel]

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.

[Anonymous User]

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.

[JakubSisak]

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.