We’re opening up an early CRS (Coordinate Reference System) geolocation workflow in SketchUp Labs, and we’d love to invite the community to try it out.
CRS is a more accurate way to place your model in real-world coordinates, particularly useful for civil, survey, and GIS-related workflows.
How to try it (no downloads required):
1. Open SketchUp for Desktop
2. Go to Add Location
3. Open the dropdown
4. Select Coordinate Reference System
You will be guided through the Labs experience, and we’ll ask a few questions during the process to help us understand what needs improvement.
Since this is a Labs feature, some features are not yet supported (such as exporting geolocated files or importing CRS-based data), but your input will help shape what comes next.
If you’re curious about more accurate geolocation in SketchUp, we’d appreciate it if you gave it a try.
There’s obviously a lot of valuable work gone into this, but what are we testing? I click on the CRS edit, select a survey system, enter three values and then hit a brick wall as the values can’t be applied to the model, the only option is [CANCEL].
On reopening the Add Location window, the contents don’t fit the available space. (MacOS Tahoe on Silicon). This appears to be down to a pop up in the same window promoting the AI tools.
I have been referencing Lats & Longs for some time, but I had missed the CRS was using the localised grid reference system and they have range limits. My mistake was assuming the Lats & Longs mapped directly to the CRS. I have entered some recent surveyors coordinates from a project and they appear to land at the correct point.
I assume we are reliant on our Surveyors to provide these values and also confirm the applied system?
Will the CRS values (E,N & Elev) be available to Layout labels anytime soon?
Yes you can expect to have points defined in a CRS for the project you are working on. But one of the reasons for this being in labs is to understand more about people’s workflows and requirements so please complete the in-app survey with your details to help the product team understand this.
Not soon, no, but I will add this to the wish list for this project to discuss.
