Geomodeling with Google Earth |
How Excitech modelled its offices...
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Excitech's HQ, the Design Technology Centre, is now on Google Earth in 3D, using a mixture of photography and visualisation.
How we achieved this and the tools which we used may be of value to you as you seek to increase the profile of your organisation and its design projects as well as communicate your design intent to project partners, clients and maybe even planners.
This service is available through Google Earth and SketchUp.
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Excitech HQ - 3D Fly Around
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Excitech HQ - Day/Night Study
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How it was achieved:
"I started my project and used Google SketchUp to model the building based on photographs taken from our company (Design Technology Centre) I did not have a great camera so I decided to involve my training manager (Alan Skipp) to see if he could capture our building for me to use. The process followed is called “Photo Matching”. This technique requires a couple of images, Sketchup has the ability to match the perspective view of your photos and you simply model over it. Similar to tracing on a piece of paper."
To read the full story as to how this was achieved view Pierre Vogel's blog entry...by clicking here.
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Google Earth and Google SketchUp Training Courses
Google Earth
The Google Earth Training course provides delegates without prior experience, with a grounding in the use of
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Mastering 3D Using SketchUp Pro:
The Mastering 3D Using SketchUp Pro training course provides delegates without prior experience, with a grounding in the use SketchUp.
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Sketchup Advanced Landscape Course
Landscape Design is a discipline that encompasses many workflows that result in designs ranging from human-scale site fixtures to regional masterplans.
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SketchUp Advanced Skills
The advanced topics course is designed for experienced SketchUp users who want to investigate advanced topic areas including working with CAD, creating curved surfaces and employing advanced presentation techniques for SketchUp models.
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Sketchup for Geomodeling
The Mastering 3D Using SketchUp: Geomodeling Training course provides students with a comprehensive overview of the process and benefits of exploring the interoperability of SketchUp and Google Earth, and a deeper look into the Google 3D Warehouse.
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Further information on Google SketchUp and Google Earth
For more information on either Google SketchUp or Google Earth or to enquire about any of
our training courses, please call Excitech now on 0845 370 1500.
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