Try not to get too much outside area in the screenshots.Ĥ) Put all your screenshots into a folder.ĥ) Upload the folder to Vectorworks Cloud Services.Ħ) In Cloud Services, use the “Photos to 3D Model” command and give it a bit (In my experience, I am normally waiting about an hour)ħ) Retrieve your point cloud and possibly a mesh! The Point Cloud will be ready first and tends to be much easier to work with. Make sure to get some side shots, screenshots from different angles, different elevations, different distances, etc… but still focus on your area. Make sure to get some different views and elevations to capture heights. Make sure to turn off labels and avoid getting any text in the screenshots. Spend a few minutes taking screenshots in Google Earth. I should also note that this workflow is by no means standardized and I wouldn’t trust elevation data or anything like that however, from my testing so far, it seems to give decent enough results that I can plop a building in the results and it looks pretty nice.Ģ) Find an area you want to make in Vectorworks.ģ) In short, pretend you are a drone.

A few people here have been using it in house for some projects recently!

Here's an example of a Fly-Over of a route from plotaroute.Hello Forums! A post over on the wishlist inspired me to post this workflow I've been messing around with.

A viewing distance of around 300m usually works quite well.

You can alter the viewing angle and viewing distance in the Touring tab in Google Earth Settings/Preferences - a viewing angle of 70-80 degrees will give you a good view of the hills and the route comuing up.

You can view an animated Fly-Over the route by clicking on the 'Fly-Over Tour' item in the left panel (arrow 1 below) and then clicking the Play Tour button (arrow 2 below).

Once the file has downloaded, simply click on it to open the route in Google Earth.

Then select KML as the GPS download file format and choose whether you would like to include mile/km markers.

Select Download from the menu above the map.You can also download the Google Earth app for mobile devices from your app store and view the route in Google Earth on your smartphone. You will first need to download and install Google Earth if you don't already have it.You can even watch a fly-over the route! Follow these instructions. You can view any route from in glorious 3D using Google Earth.

Google earth pro 3d view