Trying to get my ground mesh to to sit on the same axis as the building. Please can anyone help.
Hi Mya,
I know there was some bugs related to ground mesh when using some transformation.
If you reset your point cloud transformation is it working well ?
The new Scan Essentials should solve this kind of bug and should be available really soon.
Best,
YS
Hello, is this plan image helpful? The move and rotate tools do not update the ground mesh to correlate to where it has been moved on the point cloud.
Hi this did move my model, however not into the right place. I tried to delete the existing ground mesh and redo after resetting the point cloud transformation, but it still didn’t work!
you might want to share your file there. if it’s too heavy for the forum, use google drive / dropstop / wetransfer / a pidgeon 
I’m sorry I could reproduce it inside the latest Scan Essential build so it wont be fixed in the short term.
The only workaround I can think of for now is to open the point cloud in another software (CloudCompare for example) and align the axis on this software and then export the point cloud to a format such as laz. This way, it should be opened inside SketchUp with the correct axes and the ground mesh should be aligned.
Another workflow is to use bounded feature for ground mesh but the cells wont be aligned with SketchUp axes unfortunately.
This is something about Scan Essentials that I have noted but there are so many other great features with this plugin that I just kind of work around it.
You can use CloudCompare to resolve this, however I understand that digging into a new piece of software just for a small adjustment is an annoyance. Let me know if I can assist on this end as a professional courtesy. I work with CloudCompare almost every day and this would take me all but 5 seconds to do.
Another option is to use a rectangle to drape over the ground and then delete any parts of the mesh that fall outside of that new border. This would result with the border edges aligning with your model, however each individual polygon inside would still be diagonal. If you soften the edges of the ground mesh, others will be none the wiser. You could then set the axis in the ground mesh group object to align with your model so the bounding box is smaller if that is something that is bugging you as well.
The new Scan Essentials version was released sooner this month and did not fully fixed the issue. But we had a patch to release (I strongly advise you to update btw) and it should also fix this issue.
@Mya could you retry with the latest 2026 version of Scan Essentials and tell me if you still have the issue ?