Hi,
>> I have used three other GIS software brands and like arc, sketchup
I don't know a GIS software called "Arc". It might be ArcGIS ... but this is mostly 2D oriented.
Sketchup is not a GIS-software.
>> In the tool window you can import map data from lets say google earth
In Map 3D (without additional tools/plugins) you can't import Google Earth data ... what software or which plugin are you really using?
And if you connect to BingMaps you only get images, but no 3D content.
>> Autodesk has tools to work with a large map
"Map" is 2D, not 3D, so nothing that can be printed on a 3D printer (at least will not result in different elevations).
One software from Autodesk handling 3D data is InfraWorks, that could bring in 3D data and you might try to export it, but I guess the data-amount is then too high to get it working on a normal workstation.
>> Any DEM file for all USA.
If you have a DEM file you can use Autodesk Civil 3D to import it.
What I'm most unsure is that you state "you can't crop your data", which sounds like you have one.
But asking then for how to get data sounds like you don't have valid 3D data.
Maybe it's me, but I'm really not sure about what you have or not.
- alfred -
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