Point Clouds in SketchUp: The Ground Mesh Tool (Video 6/6)
This series of videos shows how you can use Trimble's point clouds extension "Scan Essentials" to model accurate 3D geometry in SketchUp. The rest of the videos can be found here:
First Steps with Scan Essentials (Video 1/6) - • Point Clouds in SketchUp: First Steps with...
Trimble Realworks Processing (Video 2/6) - • Point Clouds in SketchUp: Trimble Realwork...
Point Cloud Manager Dialog (Video 3/6) - • Point Clouds in SketchUp: Point Cloud Mana...
Using Clipping Boxes (Video 4/6) - • Point Clouds in SketchUp: Using Clipping B...
3D Modeling Approaches (Video 5/6) - • Point Clouds in SketchUp: 3D Modeling Appr...
The Ground Mesh Tool (Video 6/6) - • Point Clouds in SketchUp: The Ground Mesh ...
In this video I show how you use the Ground Mesh tool to automatically generate a ground mesh terrain model from a point cloud.
Find out more about the Scan Essentials extension at: https://extensions.sketchup.com/exten...
For more on what you can do with SketchUp, check out my book "Architectural Design with SketchUp" and my website: https://sketchupfordesign.com
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:49 Exploring the sample exterior point cloud
3:12 Creating a ground mesh from the point cloud
4:24 Refining the ground mesh using the Add Detail tool
5:42 Making the ground mesh a solid
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