Whether youre modeling a patch of ground for a building or redesigning central park in sketchup, you need one of two terrain modeling methods. How to generate a contour map with sketchup sketchup 2018. In this course, author george maestri explains how to model and render 3d objects and scenes using sketchup 8. Sketchup s sandbox tools the tools you use to model terrain can also create forms completely unrelated to terrain. Terrain modeling is the most complicated process in landscape design ideas. Importing preexisting terrain into sketchup and geolocate a. How to model terrain from contour lines in sketchup dummies. Creating a revit toposurface from sketchup terrain. Create a toposurface by importing contour data revit. You can create a terrain model in a number of different ways. This article particularly will cover how the topography can be created from scratch and also from a contour line using sketchup and how to. You will also need to download and install four ruby script plugins before you start. Here is the autocad file screen grab that i will be using. May 08, 2019 i prepared all the contour lines in autocad, in a simple file terrain, not a surface floating in the air.
Redrawing each contour line is a major bummer, but luckily, you can download a great simplify. Using the sandbox extension is relatively straightforward, and the drape tool and stamp tool are helpful for creating buildings or roads on top of the terrain model. This feature is useful when no topo or survey data is available for a site. In this sketchup tutorial youll learn how to create sketchup topography quickly and easily. There is over a hundred of lines, i would like to avoid shifting each individual one as much as possible. Much better than sketchup anyways imo where you have to draw the contour lines. Contours can be flattened and exported to illustrator or cad for further refinement and integration. With contour lines tutorial description included in model terragen was used to generate fictional terrain dxf. If you already have digital contours in another program, you can bring contour lines into sketchup as a. If you dont have the time or knowledge to search for and download contour lines from online gis or topographic data sources, theres a. Creating contours from terrain in sketchup dylan brown designs.
How to create a 5 meter contour map using sketchup. Oob plugin makes it easy to create paving, tiling, floors, walls and any regular layouts in sketchup populate. Jun 01, 2015 creating a topographic map can be a huge pain in the neck. This is just one of the many features we explore in our sketchup courses. Here is my work flow when it comes to skinning terrain. To do that, select the model right click click lock. Is there a oneclick solution to to arrange them vertically. Stop doing this with your sketchup site models designer hacks. You have contour lines that you either imported or traced and now need to transform into a tin triangulated irregular network. Sketchup is free software and has the potential to build large 3d terrain models, but it is often less accurate as it automatically simplifies the contour lines. I could simply tug at the landscape and it went updown. In this post we are going to look at the different outcomes that can be achieved with the sandbox tools which come as standard in both the free and pro versions of sketchup. Online resources to build topography 3d models map and data. Revit analyzes the data and places a series of elevation points along the contour lines.
Flac 3d mesh generation using sketchup make 2017 linkedin. This is the bane of my existence as a landscape architect using sketchup. Apr 25, 2018 a short while ago we received an inquiry about making a tool to draw a simple topographic contour map of any given place in the world and export an svg file with the lines. This movie is locked and only viewable to loggedin members. You know the squiggly lines on topographical maps that show you where the. If youve ever tried to get gis data or find a city topographic map you know exactly what i mean. If youre lucky and the lines are in some vector format, you can import them directly into sketchup, which interprets each curved contour. This tutorial will show you how to create contour lines from terrain in sketchup.
Technically, it is possible to label the elevation of each contour line more extensively up to 5 meters or less. Your building needs ground to stand on, or maybe youre modeling the ground itself to create a landscape. Lock the grouped terrain model and the grouped index contour lines. In this tutorial i will show you my approach in creating terrain from the contours that i imported in autocad. In sketchup, importing preexisting terrain is your easiest route to creating terrain.
In this video, we explore toposhaper a sketchup extension designed to create terrain in sketchup from contours and points. In the cad file to import, each contour line must be positioned at the correct z value. If your contour lines are a raster image file, you can trace the contour lines in sketchup. In this sketchup tutorial we cover how to generate a contour map with sketchup. How can terrain include all these other possibilities. Creating terrain from scratch sketchup help sketchup help center. How to model terrain from contour lines in sketchup. Once you generally know where your site location is, open sketchup, hit the. Cad forum assigning elevations to 2d contours isolines. Creating terrain from contours is an easy process in sketchup, utilizing a set of tools called sandbox. With colorscaled altitude intervals includes contour lines in hidden layer water, bounding box and terrain each also in their own layers, which can be. With colorscaled altitude intervals includes contour lines in hidden layer water, bounding box and terrain each also in their own layers, which can be similarly. Terrain is a scripted plugin for 3ds max that assists in creating and optimizing terrain surfaces from contour lines or from existing meshes placemaker is a sketchup extension that lets you instantly build 3d cities into your model. When importing contour data, follow these requirements.
Creating contours from terrain in sketchup dylan brown. How to get contour lines of any site in sketchup and export it. We will look at creating terrain from scratch, and also from contour lines that we have imported into sketchup. Hi all, i have contour map with topographical lines, each line representing 5m vertical increment. If you like this video and would like us to make a tutorial we havent yet done please visit. If you can get it in to adobe illustrator you can use the live trace tool to create vector lines and export a dwg format plan. In the past few years theres been some bumps in the road for geolocation in sketchup. How to generate a contour map with sketchup youtube. Alternatively if i closed the space between all the lines creating surfaces, is there an extension that would allow to extrude. How to create terrain using contour lines one of the forgotten powerful script in sketchup is the sandbox tool. In this sketchup tutorial detail information is given on how to produce a contour map with sketchup 2018. Creating terrain in sketchup from contours with toposhaper.
In sketchup pro, this method is the easiest way to import terrain, and the steps to do it appear later in this section. Youd still have to manually raise the lines on the zed axis and its likely you would have line segments not nice whole contour lines. The 3d warehouse can be a great resource for downloading models, but sometimes. In sketchup, the terrain can be brought into your model in the following manners. Importing terrian is not available with sketchup make or my. If your contour lines belong to a raster image file, the contour lines in sketchup can be easily located. Jul, 2015 daniel tal returns to teach us about terrain modeling in sketchup. Automatically generate a toposurface based on 3d contour data imported from dwg, dxf, or dgn files. However, the tools for creating terrain from scratch are useful in the following scenarios. Graphic design courses sketch up courses sketchup contours. From contour lines to 3d terrain patch rhino for mac.
Modeling sliced terrain from location data in sketchup with joint push pull and slicer duration. How to convert flat contours into terrain automatically. Sketchup 8 sandbox tools building terrain from contours. Sketchup plugin and extension store by sketchucation provides free downloads of hundreds of sketchup extensions and plugins.
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