Issue Importing into Google Earth

[ScottH]

Hi,

I have exported my model from Sketchup, as a KMZ. It’s a model of a house, with textures.

When I import the KMZ into Google Earth, it does this:

Does anyone know if I’m doing something wrong here?

Many thanks in advance,

Scott
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[ScottH]

It appears to be on it’s side, and very broken!

It start out looking like this…

[DaveR]

Could you share the SKP file for the house?

[ScottH]

Yeah no worries - please see attached:

190 Beauchamp Loop v0.3.skp (1.1 MB)

Thanks,

Scott

[DaveR]

Here’s what I see when I open the KMZ in GE immediately after opening the SKP file.

I’ve tried a variety of things in SketchUp but haven’t got it to fail yet. Did you do anything to the model before uploading it?

[ScottH]

Hi Dave,

Thank you for taking the time to have a go at loading my .KMZ file yourself.

Following this, as it appeared to be a GE issue rather than Sketchup issue, I returned to GE. I followed the link to “older versions” of GE, and downloaded the desktop version. Once I imported my KMZ, I got the same result as you did above

It would seem the “new” Google Earth (here - https://www.google.com/earth/), isn’t quite ready for KMZ imports.

Thank you again for your help with this; hopefully Google will fix the KMZ import issue in the new GE sometime soon.

Cheers,

Scott

[DaveR]

Interesting. I guess I haven’t updated GE Pro for awhile.

Thanks for the information.

[ptimson]

I am having this same issue - .kmz files import properly into the desktop version, but when I try to import into the chrome version, my kmz models are broken in a similar manner that you posted.

Any ideas out there?

[DaveR]

Don’t use the Chrome version.

I’ve seen similar reports regarding GE in Chrome. It appears the KMZ import to Chrome is broken or at least not implemented correctly which I can imagine would be a challenge when dealing with the various browsers.