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sketchup questions

Anonymous
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hello everyone ive just heard about this program and i wanted to ask sth

i need to know how can i create a 3d building for google earth. i want to build the public library in my city. can i do it in archicad? or i have to learn sketch up?

thanks a lot
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Anonymous
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Sketchup is as it's name implies, a sketching and conceptual design tool. You would need another software such as Archicad to develop the construction documents.
Rakela Raul
Participant
you can use either one.......easier / lighter in sketchup
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AC V6 to V18 - RVT V11 to V16
David Larrew
Booster
In AC 11 you can use the "Google Earth Connections" Add-On to submit your AC model directly to Google Earth.
David Larrew, AIA, GDLA, GSRC

Architectural Technology Specialist

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WIN7-10/ OSX 10.15.7

AC 5.1-25 USA
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
David wrote:
In AC 11 you can use the "Google Earth Connections" Add-On to submit your AC model directly to Google Earth.
Everything can be done without SketchUp using 11, as David says.

If you have AC 10 or earlier, you can still model in AC and then export as 3DS from the 3D window, and import the 3DS file into SketchUp for getting into Google Earth. (Since your question was "can I build this in AC".)

Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.7, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Anonymous
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!!! thank you all !!!
very much!