3d terrain

[Anonymous]

can i import 3d terrain from Google earth to Archicad 20 ?

[Erwin Edel]

Short answer: no. The connection to google earth hasn't been around since ArchiCAD14 or 15, I think.

Long answer: probably through sketchup and importing sketchup file in ArchiCAD. Allthough the connection to sketchup might not be working anymore either. Google Earth itself is abandoned software too, as far as I know.

[Richard Morrison]

Are you sure about this, Erwin? You can still natively merge .KMZ files through the Interoperability menu, and Google Earth is still very active. I have a copy of Google Earth Pro on my desktop, and it works just fine. I believe the separate add-on to Google Earth in ArchiCAD hasn't been around because it was incorporated directly into the Merge function.

[Erwin Edel]

There hasn't been an update to Google Earth in more than 2 years, I have quite some issues getting it to behave in Windows10, I think they're more dedicated to having it run in browser, but I might be wrong.

The ArchiCAD connection addon is long dead though, I just checked, ArchiCAD17 is the last to support it.

[Richard Morrison]

Erwin wrote:
There hasn't been an update to Google Earth in more than 2 years, I have quite some issues getting it to behave in Windows10, I think they're more dedicated to having it run in browser, but I might be wrong.

The ArchiCAD connection addon is long dead though, I just checked, ArchiCAD17 is the last to support it.

Erwin,
You have to use Google Earth PRO to be able to generate the .KMZ files. My build date is 8/18/17, so it's not that old, and I haven't updated it since I installed it.

What I'm saying is that there is no more Add-on because the Google Earth features have been incorporated into the main AC program, but have not disappeared.

[Erwin Edel]

I'll have a look at updating again, I also have pro (since they made it 'free') installed.

I must admit I do not use the import terrain feature much, since there isn't much terrain to speak of around here, at least in term of height differences.

Topographic detailed drawings are available for free in GML format in Netherlands as well. It's a pain in the behind to get imported to ArchiCAD, but has a lot more detail than Google Earth.