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
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
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.
S
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.
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