Wouldn't it be sweet if you could attach live Google Earth imagery into your DGN like a reference file? Clip-able, Scalable, Printable.
Maybe tell the guys at Google that I will actually by google earth pro for this functionality?
thanks
t.
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Danny Cooley
Freelance AEC CAD/BIM Technician Architecture, MEP & Structural ..... (& ex Low Carbon Consultant, ..... because they weren't that bothered!)
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A screenshot doesn't contain any geospatial information and is limited to the current screen resolution.
Capturing the terrain from Google Earth attaches the mesh in the correct geographic location along with the b/w raster image. The raster image is applied as a material to the mesh and doesn't actually contain any geospatial information itself, so the mesh is needed for location purposes. Once you've captured the terrain if you follow the steps I outlined above you can replace the low-res b/w image with a higher resolution color image mapped to the mesh in it's correct geographic location.
Due to the UV mapping involved in the material attachment to the mesh you can't just attach that same raster image through Raster Manager. It is distorted in the process of capturing it from Google Earth so that it maps correctly on the captured mesh.
If you would rather have a geo-located raster reference of the captured Google imagery you can easily plot out the captured Google Earth terrain as a 2d pdf with georefencing enabled, and then attached the resulting geospatial PDF as a raster reference.
Ron, I liked your post.
Is there a way to capture the terrain mesh as smaller triangles or is that limited by google earth.
At the moment the triangles are way larger than I would like and I am looking at spending the time
creating my own STM.
When capturing an image/terrain from Google Earth the area in view is into a 10x10 grid which is then meshed.
You might want to take a look at using ConceptStation to gather initial terrain information:
https://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/w/road_and_site_design__wiki/27767/video-openroads-conceptstation-creating-new-file-and-import-data-from-the-geocoordination-services
Once gathered the terrain can be exported to a tin file for further use.
Cast your vote here:
communities.bentley.com/.../attach-3d-world-from-google
José
Well, two voters didn't like the idea and strangely enough didn't write down why.