MX Alignment to Google Earth

Re: MX Alignment to Google Earth

Mark Marnell — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:12:30 GMT

Ahmed

I have just exported a road model to Google Earth 5.1, and I am not having any problems with my data. I am afraid I do not know that much about Google Earth, so I am unable to offer any advice on this matter.

Sorry

Mark

Re: MX Alignment to Google Earth

Ahmed Salah Nour El Din — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:40:34 GMT

Dear Mark,

I think something is going wrong with MX 8i with Google earth 5.00, the MX model or Microstation entities are exported flying over the ground on a higher level (even while using flatten to ground option).

Regards,
Ahmed Hazem

Re: MX Alignment to Google Earth

ScottBolton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:27:10 GMT

Mark / Rahul,

I contacted Horsham about this one some time ago. Although I had successfully exported my model to Google Earth, when I zoomed close in and panned the model appeared to glide over the Earth. Try it and see. I found that by first "flattening" the MX model to 0.000 vastly reduced this anal mole.

Re: MX Alignment to Google Earth

Mark Marnell — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:46:50 GMT

Rahul

The steps required are explained in the CAD Help "Working with complete designs > GeoCoordination > Geo-Coordination and Geographic Systems Support > Using Google Earth Tools" - I have copied the relevant text below, the bold text I have added. In MX, use File > CAD Menu... to replace the MX menu with the CAD menu, so you can access the tools mentioned below.

Typically, the steps required to display your design model in Google Earth are as follows:

1. In Google Earth, create a placemark at the required location and save it as a "kml" file, by right-clicking on the created placemark and choosing "Save As". [To test this, I created a placemark to represent the start of my alignment.]

2. In your design model [i.e. the MX model], use the [from the CAD menu, Tools > Geographic > ] Define Placemark Monument tool to define a monument point that matches the location of the placemark. [The start of the alignment in my example.]

3. In your design model, use the Export Google Earth (KML) File tool to export your model to a Google Earth "kml" or "kmz" file (a compressed "kml" file).

In Google Earth, use File > Open to load the newly created KMZ file from step 4.

Mark