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    yogeshmundhe1848
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    Importing a Google Earth Surface

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    07-08-2011 05:10 AM

    I am facing an issue while importing a google earth surface, while impoprting i have to restart a GE everytime otherwise it while imorting it comes up to 49% and then stop working,

     

    Why this is happening...is there any solution?

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    Re: Importing a Google Earth Surface

    07-08-2011 06:28 AM in reply to: yogeshmundhe1848

    Go to Toolspace, Settings, Surface, Commands, ImportGEData and ImportGESurface

    Right click each of these, under the Google Earth Options change the Rows & Columns to be 70 x 70 or less.

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    yogeshmundhe1848
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    Re: Importing a Google Earth Surface

    07-08-2011 06:31 AM in reply to: Jeff_M

    I did that settings also...But d issue is that ..it works only once....after importing a surface I need to restart a GE in order to import a next surface.

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    Re: Importing a Google Earth Surface

    07-08-2011 06:33 AM in reply to: yogeshmundhe1848

    Correct, GE only allows a certain amount of data per session. If you find an older version of GE, it used to allow much more data (version 4.2, I believe, was the last to do so).

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    yogeshmundhe1848
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    Re: Importing a Google Earth Surface

    07-08-2011 06:49 AM in reply to: Jeff_M

    Jeff ...thanks a lot for your reply.

     

    I had tested on GE 5 & GE 6...both have d same issue.

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    Re: Importing a Google Earth Surface

    07-10-2011 02:38 PM in reply to: yogeshmundhe1848

    Hello,

     

    You might be interested in our software, Plex.Earth, which deals with this issue, by identifying when GE reaches to that state. It prompts you to close Google Earth and then it resumes the procedure from the last point.
    If you want to parse hundreds of thousands or millions points from GE , there's also a special edition which fully automates the procedure.

     

    You can test it from here:

    http://www.plexscape.com

     

    BTW, if you work on AutoCAD 2012, it's also available throught the Autodesk Exchange App Store.

     

    I hope it helps and if you need anything, please let me know.

     

    Best regards,

     

    - Lambros

    Google Earth AutoCAD
    Plex.Earth Tools for AutoCAD

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    yogeshmundhe1848
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    Registered: ‎12-09-2010

    Re: Importing a Google Earth Surface

    07-10-2011 09:00 PM in reply to: lkaliakatsos

    Thank U... Lambros

     

    Will check out that.

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    Re: Importing a Google Earth Surface

    07-11-2011 07:20 AM in reply to: yogeshmundhe1848

    Thanks! Let me know for anything you need.

     

    - Lambros

    Google Earth AutoCAD
    Plex.Earth Tools for AutoCAD

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