Essentially, Building Maker lets you add boxes, gables and blocks to build the geometry of the building, which you can then align with Google’s multiple angled aerial shots of the area. This can be accessed online in a browser, but is also now available directly within SketchUp 8 via another integrated window. Google has also been working on another way of creating simple photo-textured models of existing buildings called Building Maker. You can then explore the area to find the best view of your building and take snapshots that are applied to your model’s currently selected faces to bring it quickly to life. Add a basic box-modelled version of your building and you can then use SketchUp 8’s revamped Photo Textures command to open another window where you can see the same geolocation using Google’s Street View (assuming the imagery is available in the first). You can then use the Get Region command to copy a full-colour aerial shot along with terrain and geo-location data into SketchUp to use as the basis for your work. Rather than opening up Google Earth, this now opens an integrated Google Maps window where you can enter an address or postcode to display an aerial view of where your building is, or will be, located. To begin with the old Get Snapshot command has been replaced with the new Add Location command.
Google’s geo-modelling ambitions lie at the heart of this latest release. What Google saw in SketchUp was very different: it saw it as the simplest way to enable end users to model buildings to turn its flat maps into 3D localities. What caught our eye was the way the program made it simple to explore creative ideas both as precision 3D models and as artistic 2D sketches.
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PC Pro has long been a fan of SketchUp, stretching back well before the involvement of Google.
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