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FSX kml error messages in Sketchup
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Hi Ken:
I am going to initially refer interested readers to the original thread where this discussion started:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/where-do-i-put-the-google-server-tiles.440855/#post-779616
This thread continues to troubleshoot issues from the latter part of the above linked thread which are pertinent to a "Sketchup geolocation workaround" recently discussed elsewhere within the Sketchup forum:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/updated-sketchup-wont-work.440430/#post-777782
...which uses the plugin Ruby script "KML Tools" by Aerilius ...in Sketchup-v8.
Please explain this more clearly, as I do not understand what you mean by seeing the satellite view of the KBHM airport.
Where was it that you anticipated I was to see a satellite view of the KBHM airport: ?
* Sketchup (after import of your "Shuttlesworth Airport.kml" file)
...or:
* Google Earth (after double-clicking your "Shuttlesworth Airport.kml" file in Windows Explorer)
Did you attempt to export from Google Earth via the "Shuttlesworth Airport.kml" file, anything other than 1 or more poly-lines ...via the "Add Path" feature on the Google Earth icon toolbar ?
That is the recommended procedure; if you can find the KML Tools plugin feature option in the Sketchup-v8 Extensions pick-list, it is more likely (but not guaranteed) to be working properly.
It is possible there may be an issue involving other factors with the info actually coded into your KML file.
This may be a result of the number- or type- of KML features you 'selected' within Google Earth itself that were assumed to have been intended to be saved into that (1) KML file ...when it was exported by Google Earth.
Hopefully we might determine what that may have been, pending your reply to this further discussion.
GaryGB
I am going to initially refer interested readers to the original thread where this discussion started:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/where-do-i-put-the-google-server-tiles.440855/#post-779616
This thread continues to troubleshoot issues from the latter part of the above linked thread which are pertinent to a "Sketchup geolocation workaround" recently discussed elsewhere within the Sketchup forum:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/updated-sketchup-wont-work.440430/#post-777782
...which uses the plugin Ruby script "KML Tools" by Aerilius ...in Sketchup-v8.
Please explain this more clearly, as I do not understand what you mean by seeing the satellite view of the KBHM airport.
Where was it that you anticipated I was to see a satellite view of the KBHM airport: ?
* Sketchup (after import of your "Shuttlesworth Airport.kml" file)
...or:
* Google Earth (after double-clicking your "Shuttlesworth Airport.kml" file in Windows Explorer)
Did you attempt to export from Google Earth via the "Shuttlesworth Airport.kml" file, anything other than 1 or more poly-lines ...via the "Add Path" feature on the Google Earth icon toolbar ?
That is the recommended procedure; if you can find the KML Tools plugin feature option in the Sketchup-v8 Extensions pick-list, it is more likely (but not guaranteed) to be working properly.
It is possible there may be an issue involving other factors with the info actually coded into your KML file.
This may be a result of the number- or type- of KML features you 'selected' within Google Earth itself that were assumed to have been intended to be saved into that (1) KML file ...when it was exported by Google Earth.
Hopefully we might determine what that may have been, pending your reply to this further discussion.
GaryGB
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I thought that was the purposed of the kml tool, to be able to download images from Google Satellite views, since Google no longer provides the Satellite images. I thought it was an alternative way to get the satellite images. Before in Sketchup, one could select File, click on Geo Location, and Add Location, and that would open a satellite images so that one could use to make 3D models, as I did with the KBHM Terminal. That is no longer possible in the make versions of Sketchup, unless you buy Sketchup Pro. That's what I though this tool does, and it was an alternative, or a work around, and that's why I asked if you had a satellite image of the airport. I guess I must have missed understood about what this too was for. So, what is the purpose of this kml tool if it's not for attaining satellite images?
Well, double clicking the kml file on my desktop does open the Google Earth Pro and brings up the satellite view of that airport.
Did you attempt to export from Google Earth via the "Shuttlesworth Airport.kml" file, anything other than 1 or more poly-lines ...via the "Add Path" feature on the Google Earth Icon Toolbar?
See the photo of what I did below in the jpg file.
Notice at the left under Places at the bottom, you'll see the Shuttlesworth Airport kml file that I right clicked on when I saved it to my desktop. I hope this helps explain what I did.
Okay before I leave, am I correct that you want me to continue this discussion at the very first link you posted above?
Ken.
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Please review very carefully, the entire procedure for the so-called "Sketchup geolocation work-around":
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/updated-sketchup-wont-work.440430/#post-777782
That process will merely launch Google Earth to a saved location via a 'PushPin' somewhat like a shortcut in windows will launch an executable file, and it does not necessarily correlate with what other information may be within the KML file.
In this case, we are interested in using the "Add Path" tool on the Google Earth icon toolbar to draw a line, and then save (export) that from Google Earth to a KML file.
NO !
Any discussion related to the sub-topic of a "Sketchup geolocation work-around" should, IMHO, be done within this thread.
The thread first linked at the top of this new thread is only to discuss SBuilderX tile server download DLLs; I linked to it so that interested readers could get familiar with the preceding discussion so that we do not use more "forum resources" by quoting those latter posts in this thread.
GaryGB
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Gary,
I followed all the directions again and I'm still having the same issues. You asked me earlier what I meant when I asked you if you could see a satellite view, or image of the airport. Is that the purpose of this work around, because you said "To use any Sketchup 8 version to Geo-locate imported aerial imagery 'background' images." I don't understand it's purpose if it does not import aerial images.
Ken.
Gary,
I followed all the directions again and I'm still having the same issues. You asked me earlier what I meant when I asked you if you could see a satellite view, or image of the airport. Is that the purpose of this work around, because you said "To use any Sketchup 8 version to Geo-locate imported aerial imagery 'background' images." I don't understand it's purpose if it does not import aerial images.
Ken.
Hi Ken:
I believe it is reasonably clear from review of the detailed step-by-step procedures at various points within that entire thread
...that one will have previously have saved a Google Earth zoomed image of the footprint area desired, as described here:
Then one will follow the "Alternative (simplified') Work-around" procedure ...later in that same thread:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/updated-sketchup-wont-work.440430/#post-777782
1.) Create a path poly-line in Google Earth
2.) Export that path poly-line from Google Earth as a KML file
3.) In Sketchup-v8, Menu > Plugins > KML Tools > Import KML ...is used to import the KML file exported by Google Earth
4.) Rotated Rectangle is used to draw a Face over the extents of the imported KML poly-line 'path'
5.) Import and map as a texture material, the Google Earth zoomed image of the footprint area desired onto that new Face.
Sketchup does not automatically do this for you; this must be done manually ...as the above linked procedures explain.
Please read that entire thread from the opening post onward !
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/updated-sketchup-wont-work.440430/
GaryGB
I believe it is reasonably clear from review of the detailed step-by-step procedures at various points within that entire thread
...that one will have previously have saved a Google Earth zoomed image of the footprint area desired, as described here:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/updated-sketchup-wont-work.440430/#post-775434
Work-around:
To use any Sketchup 8 version to Geo-locate 3D models / import aerial imagery 'background' images:
Google Earth (aka "GE"): < uses stand-alone desktop application >:
1.) Set user eye-point camera in top-down view:
2.) Log geographic coordinates for a corner of a building
3.) Take measurements for the longest dimension of the building end-to-end
4.) File > Save > Save image (save a *.JPG file to disk)
Then one will follow the "Alternative (simplified') Work-around" procedure ...later in that same thread:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/updated-sketchup-wont-work.440430/#post-777782
1.) Create a path poly-line in Google Earth
2.) Export that path poly-line from Google Earth as a KML file
3.) In Sketchup-v8, Menu > Plugins > KML Tools > Import KML ...is used to import the KML file exported by Google Earth
4.) Rotated Rectangle is used to draw a Face over the extents of the imported KML poly-line 'path'
5.) Import and map as a texture material, the Google Earth zoomed image of the footprint area desired onto that new Face.
Sketchup does not automatically do this for you; this must be done manually ...as the above linked procedures explain.
Please read that entire thread from the opening post onward !
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/updated-sketchup-wont-work.440430/
GaryGB