concept3D had its first Minnesota ‘Brown Bag Session’ at Brauer & Associates, LTD. in Hopkins, Minnesota. Over the course of an hour, concept3D presented many SketchUp, Google Earth and Photoshop tips and tricks.
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As an avid photography enthusiast, I am always looking for new ways to spread my passion for pictures. So I began thinking, with all our know-how of GeoWeb capabilities here at concept3D and my personal habit of exploring random locations, why not combine the two skills and share with others my adventures geoweb photography!
This is a part one of two series that utilizes geotagged photos and the Google Earth Plugin to showcase photography.
Terrain data is updated independent from imagery updates. This update is the reason that models appear to be floating or sinking into the terrain. This not only affects user generated content, but also Google content as well. If you look at the bottoms of buildings in cities you may find floating buildings.
Description balloons are a feature in Google Earth that appear as a window in the shape of a text balloon you might see in a comic strip. Their primary purpose is to provide more information about a location in the form of text, images, videos and/or flash. More importantly, there are features and [...]
We live in an imperfect world and adding imperfection to your SketchUp models can add a realistic touch. This can be a tedious effort, but creating imperfect dynamic components with the RANDBETWEEN() function is actually quite easy and fun. I have created a four part tutorial to show you how to create an imperfect bike [...]
When presenting in Google Earth, exporting a video fly-through, or when you just want a cleaner look, it is helpful to know some tips and how to set options for the best presentation. Here are some basic tips for setting up a KML Google Earth file to be used as a presentation. (The file extensions [...]
In this posting we’ll show you how to mashup buildings into a KML layer for use in Google Earth & Google Maps.
A term we throw around in the concept3D office a lot is BPM - so often in fact that we forget that most people don’t recognize the acronym. BPM stands for Building Product Manufacturer. To date, the majority of the product modeling we have done is for McGraw Hill and the Sweets Catalog. [...]
Note: This is the first post in which Zack Mertz, our lead modeler and designer, will address frequently asked questions and Sketchup/Google Earth challenges in an attempt to impart some of his knowledge upon anyone willing to listen. Zack has been with us from day one and was a Sketchup trainer for Google [...]