Shapefile Importer for SketchUp

Extensions
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I have been working on a personal open source project for SketchUp. It will import point and polyline shapefiles.

Just add a geo-location and make sure your shapefiles are in geographic coordinates WGS 1984.

Please let me know if you come across any errors. It is in beta/development.

Once I get some feedback and make improvements, I will place in the extension warehouse.

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@blipscomb

Thank you for helping out the SU GIS community with the development of the plugin.

I used MapWindow to reproject the attached dataset to wgs84.

bostonMA_polylines.zip (579.5 KB)

The result is what you see here:

The import also has issues with the generated geometry. The ability to navigate, measure and work with the linework is compromised in some way. See attached skp
gis_linework_buggy.skp (704.0 KB)

Cheers
CD

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Thanks for testing it! I will look into this tonight.

I have three questions to help me check this issue.

  1. Did you geo-locate your model?
  2. Do you know if these are multi-part lines?
  3. Do you have any lines queried out in MapWindow?
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Here’s an example from last night. I download this data from MARIS (Mississippi’s GIS data site). It was railroads and Churches. I’ll look into your file tonight though.

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I pulled the x,y values when I ran it, and they were showing as feet.

Also, the .prj file is showing WGS 1984, which does not correctly identify the projection.
GEOGCS[“WGS 84”,DATUM[“WGS_1984”,SPHEROID[“WGS 84”,6378137,298.257223563,AUTHORITY[“EPSG”,“7030”]],AUTHORITY[“EPSG”,“6326”]],PRIMEM[“Greenwich”,0,AUTHORITY[“EPSG”,“8901”]],UNIT[“degree”,0.0174532925199433,AUTHORITY[“EPSG”,“9122”]],AUTHORITY[“EPSG”,“4326”]]

So I defined the projection back to Mass. Mainland by downloading the .prj file.
http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/2249/

I then reprojected to WGS 1984 Geographic Coordinates using QGIS. I then added to SketchUp.

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Where can I get the plugin? I don’t see it in the Extension Warehouse.

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This will import points and polylines. If you’re interested in importing polygons (such as building footprints and heights), you might try this plugin as well:

https://sites.google.com/site/spirixcode/code/jimhami42_shapefile_importer.rbz

There is also a plugin to read OSM XML files that you can select and export data from:

The plugin can be found at:

https://sites.google.com/site/spirixcode/code/jimhami42_osm_importer.rbz

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I have a shapefile of watersupply pipelines in WGS84 GCS. While importing, Ruby Console displaying that: "BLOCK-IN"RubyError
Please help me out.

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I’m sorry about the issues you are having.

Did you bring in a Google Earth image for geolocation?

Also is you’re line file a 2D or 3D line file?