Geo-modeling using Sketchup:

The process of making 3D models of real-life buildings that will appear in Google Earth

Sketchup program is a Software than enable the user to create 3D models, share them with the world and add them to Google Earth. In Sketchup, photographies of real buildings can be used for texturized the models, so they look Realistic and accurate. Google Earth give Sketchup's models a geographic location, and Sketchup can be used to generates 3D models of the location provided by Google Earth. There are two types of sketchup licences; free share and pro version. The free version of Google Sketchup can export 3D to .dae and Google Earth's .kmz file format, the Pro version extends exporting support to include the .3ds, .dwg, .dxf, .fbx, .obj, .xsi, and .wrl file formats.

NAPA DOWNTOWN 3D MODELING

In the 122 DDGT class, I was commissioned by Alan Skinner to teach my peers this valuable software. I was commissioned to this project since I have been using sketchup for a long time, so i have an ample quantity of experience in this software. As part of my Teamhead project leader experince, i helped to organize field trips in order to recollect information of buildings in the Napa downtown. The height and width of buildings were measured in these field trips, and photographs were taken of the same, and then the buildings were modeled.

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I have been using the sketchup program for over 4 years, throughout these years I have developed an ample range of experience and knowledge in the field. In my personal Wharehouse page, I count close to 250 models uploaded to the Internet.

You can see all my sketchup models in the bar-link below.