Modeling a Sloping Road ON TERRAIN in SketchUp!

In this video, we talk about how to add a sloping road to 3D terrain in SketchUp. We'll use several different extensions to create our surface!

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - Creating a 2d flat version of your surface
1:19 - Getting contours from our 3D surface to the 2D surface
3:34 - Adding your road path
5:25 - Stamping our road onto our terrain
8:35 - Removing/cleaning up stamped geometry
9:15 - Adding retaining walls
12:27 - Adding slope to your flat road
14:44 - Adding a surface to your sloped road
17:55 - Aligning retaining walls to road height
19:14 - Hiding exposed edge geometry

[patrickrshannon]

Wow.... that was awesome. Dealing with topography is new to me, and I learned a lot from this tutorial. Thank you!

[ΗλιαςΝικολαρεας]

Very informative tutorial that gets to many different aspects of SketchUp.

[oOoOo-mlop]

Great timming this tutorial is what i need right now. Thanks

[Theabdulrahman]

Big thank to you ❤.
Now I can reduce much time to finish my tasks faster, I was always worried
about how much the time I could spend to close my project. Due to these small troubles

[amirkhaniki]

you have no idea how much I needed this toutorial thank you man✌👌

[RenataJensen]

How can we make the road height increased in the center and decrease towards the sides, like a real one ? Thank you ❤

[rahdyelwan]

I find the stamp tool really awkward; need to have an offset and precision-wise, ‘want it to be right around here’ doesn’t really cut it. If you push-pull your road through the terrain, and then intersect faces, (get them into the same group and then intersect selected faces). You’ll get a portion of terrain you could remove or even move out of the way.

[Hamsterdamned]

oh my god the time i need to do sloping road and you uploaded a tutorial, how convenient XD

[petrmotejlek]

I personally believe that the stamp tool is simply broken. The sheer fact that the offset csnt be 0 is just bad. But combine it with the fact that the height of the stamped surface is only controlled using mouse with no inference... Unusable for anything where you know your heights and dimensions and you just need the tool to help you. This one will actually hurt you instead :D

[LYREMIXbass]

can you please do the same for the blender. especialy 7:45 is that option available in blender. how to add base like that in blender.

[avicohenk]

A while back I realized I can do complex things with the base tools and maybe a few free extension. this demonstratea how quickly you can do complex modeling with basic tools

[TheLeftDeadPlayer]

These tutorials are incredibly helpful, but as someone trying to learn SketchUp for work by using the 7-day free trial, it's such a pain how many vital tools and functions are locked behind paid extensions.

[aleksanderff]

I have been making roads of this kind in sketchup, but it is really time consuming for a large site. Now I like to do it in Blender. So, please, Justin do a tutorial for blender. Thanks for advance

[dyfrigshandy]

I NEED U TO COMPARE SKETCHUP VS ARCHICAD