How to Generate A Contour Map with Sketchup

In this sketchup tutorial we cover how to generate a contour map with sketchup. In the past few years there's been some bumps in the road for geolocation in sketchup. Now that things have settled down in sketchup 2018. We delve into this pro-only feature.

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[DesignerhacksPage]

What are your thoughts on Sketchup moving the geolocation feature to pro-only?

[victoriasmikowski]

I've been using SketchUp for 6 years and I just learned more from this video than I have in like the past 4 years of school

[sophieyau]

YOU LIFE SAVER YOU HAVE LITERALLY SAVED MY ENTIRE PROJECT THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

[HistoryUnveiled-is]

But still able to explain each stage in a basic manner. Honestly thanks man!

[bigian]

Great Video, thanks very much, I've been searching youtube for this exact tutorial.

[hillaryangelicaalvonsosima]

That was so helpful! I just started using soft and was so overwheld!

[Build_It_PDX]

This worked well for my contour lines on my tract map. But is there an easy way to label the elevations on the lines? I am importing this data into layout.

[Iceyst]

Thank you so much this save my life and my time !!

[allenoctave]

how do you know when the faces are intersected. When I intersect with faces all the rectangles got black and grey. Do the rectangle get blue again after intersecting with faces? I have 27 intersections.

[PemboDave]

Great simple summary - thanks for sharing

[Yna-nbhp]

I need to sign in first, but I don't have a license, my sketch up is only crack version, I m just a student, what should I do?

[xtudbph]

Thanks a million, helped me heaps appreciate you sharing cheers 👍🏼

[EuphoraMr]

Hello, how do you scale the created contours to match the architectural drawing? Thanks

[juleneswart]

This was exactly what I wanted! Thank you!

[jamestaylor]

Hi. I'm using SU 2022. At 4:07 you select all. Do you include the terrain? I've tried both ways. Following that you ctr l-X. In my case, I lose everything. Any ideas? Thanks, good videos.

[chantelmadlala]

Great video. More helpful than my lecturers 🥴

[nursimais]

Thanks much ! Just a question when I try choosing by area just to push pull up to heights, it's all selected what can be the reason ?

[melindasastrohardjo]

Dang.. been looking for this for so long ..thanks man!

[karanveer]

Sir when I import directly AutoCAD contour file In SketchUp then show a single line
What is the problem of this ?
Please respond ASAP because it's urgent

Note : import file in which contour is not a existing contour, we are modify it.

[clibfilm]

whenever i do this all my contours are really jagged rectangular lines with no smoothness whatsoever, what am i missing ?