It took many years of confusion until I learned why the geo location terrain looks rotated in the model, and why geo locating changes the north angle. For those who don’t know, geo locating a model in SketchUp makes the model green axis match something called Grid North. I have personally never hear…

Related threads: [image] Solar North & Geolocation SketchUp I know that the default North location is aligned with the green axis. (I’m using the Solar North plugin to see this.) [image] But when you geo-locate and import Google Earth terrain, the North direction changes…

Here’s another for the list… [image] Accurate geolocation Pro 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’…

Maybe it’s a vestige of how Google Earth satellite photos were tiled as images onto SketchUp models? Of course, with that feature gone, why stay married to it. Does the new system need image tiles or something dictating this?

Google Maps uses true north so it would have been simpler to just stick to that in SketchUp from the start. I don’t know why they went through the extra problem of using another north in SketchUp.

Hi, I also mostly work with survey data that is written to Sketchup through FME translator. In this case the TrueNorth angle is needed to be applied to the written sketchup model for relevant terrain cutout area to match the 3DCityModel of Stockholm. Looking at other 3D software programs e.i. 3dsMa…

I have stumbled on this thread as I am relatively new to SU and haven’t needed to use Geo tagging until my wife has decided on a summer/garden house and wanted to know about how much sunlight she could expect at different times of the day so I started to explore shadowland geo location. I managed t…

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Here’s another for the list…

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