If you don’t geolocate your model, your model appears in Google Earth at a default location. When you geolocate your model, you ensure your model appears in the correct location in Google Earth. Select Window > Model Info, select the Geo-location option in the sidebar on the left, click Set Manual Location, and enter a latitude and longitude in the dialog box that appears. You can add a location manually in any version of SketchUp. See Modeling Terrain and Other Rounded Shapes for details about importing and sculpting terrain as well as tips for modeling terrain that you want to display in Google Earth. Wherever you place your model on imported terrain in SketchUp determines the location of your model when you preview it in Google Earth. When you geolocate your model with the Add Location tool, you can import terrain that enables you to create your model based on the site where you plan to build it (or just display it in Google Earth). Update: Google now has video, if you'd rather not (or can't) install the app to try it yourself.To geolocate your model in SketchUp Pro 2017, import terrain using the Add Location tool. Android users can head over Google Play to get the update today iOS users shouldn't fret, as they'll get the new maps soon. If that's too few places to visit, there's always the addition of guided tours. Besides San Francisco Bay, the full coverage extends to Boulder, Boston, Charlotte, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, Santa Cruz and Tampa in the US, with Rome being the lone international hotspot. Before you go racing to your hometown to see how it looks in 3D, be aware that just a handful of cities and regions exploit that dimension. As a refresher, the visuals are automatically created from 45-degree aerial imagery and can pick up 3D elements as subtle as trees. Here's a bit of a surprise that slipped under the radar during the Google I/O keynote: Google Earth for Android has been updated to 7.0 to take advantage of the new 3D map technology it unveiled at another special event just a few weeks ago.

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