Greetings! First, thanks for some great answers over the years from this community. I now have a conundrum that has not been discussed and I’d appreciate your help working through this. As a land surveyor, I’m working with contours and point data in Civil 3D, and I need to bring them into SketchUp…

[image] otwelleng: how to locate based on lat/long You can input the latitude and longitude into the Geo-location >> Add Location dialogue box: [image] Note that a leading space is required: > 33°48'43.58"N 117°55'8.34"W On a Windows machine, you can usually insert the degree symbol (°)…

Also read these posts about the subject: [image] Unrecognized absolute Add Location coordinates SketchUp Have you tried using decimal notation? + for North and East and - for South and West? 36 deg 17 min 16.21 sec N and 115 deg 10 min 43.14 sec W == 36.287836,-115.17865 …

Thanks guys! Decimal location via lat long got me half way there, but the rotation isn’t quite right. Also, the altitude of contours is way off when exported to kmz and the options to nudge relative to sea level, ground, etc don’t seem to do much. Thanks again!

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[image] otwelleng: The first issue I’m having seems to be how to accurately geolocate within SketchUp, so that I can tie my .skp to the coordinates in C3D. Any advice on how to locate based on lat/long, utm, Both SU and GE use the NAD 83 … The State plane and UTM are basically conformal trans…

I’ve never used the advanced geo-location setting available in the Model info pane, but it centers the selected area exactly on the co-ordinates I give it: [image] Gives this: [image] Using the File >> Geo-location >> Add Location… [image]

[image] otwelleng: The first issue I’m having seems to be how to accurately geolocate within SketchUp, so that I can tie my .skp to the coordinates in C3D. … Decimal location via lat long got me half way there, but the rotation isn’t quite right. I would suggest you do not use the Add Locat…

[image] otwelleng: The first issue I’m having seems to be how to accurately geolocate within SketchUp, so that I can tie my .skp to the coordinates in C3D. Any advice on how to locate based on lat/long, utm, etc would be appreciated. The first step is to decide where the " truth" lies. For ex…

Correction; The data tables I ref are in Google Earth vs SU as stated. The following is location as installed on my machine C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google Earth Pro\client. There are a number of CSV spread sheet files; I implied Trimble uses OPUS really mistake on my part Links to IOPG http…

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Wo3Dan June 16, 2016, 8:24am 3

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