Large map area cropping

[Anonymous]

I want to 3d print a tiny model of USA. I want to know if it is possible to crop all USA as a low resolution imagery.

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> I want to know if it is possible to crop all USA as a low resolution imagery.

3D printing is not based on images as images only have pixel in x and y direction.

You need to get 3D data of the area you want to print, then you can export that as STL for 3D-printing.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Yes getting the 3d data into Autodesk is all the problem.
Autodesk will not crop areas as large as USA.
I want all of USA in one image.
How to import a large land mass areas into Autodesk map for printing 3D. Without dozens or hundreds of separate tiles( images).
Thanks so much.

[Anonymous]

Scrolling down the page has entered
"Accept as Solution" NO problem not solved.
Will open same question again. Now!

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Yes getting the 3d data into Autodesk is all the problem

Which format do you get the 3D-data for all USA

Additional questions:

• in which resolution do you get the data
• which resolution and device do you use for 3D-printing

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

I am willing to use any data with any 3D printer.
I can not move ahead with this project because the tools in Autodesk 3D map do not allow users to crop whole continents. For example all USA.
I can only crop at a zoomed in area of earth and crop about an area of 50,000 elevation.
This is to small for all American would require hundreds of images or tiles. Maybe take a year to do it this way.
Help please. How to crop all USA into Autodesk one time.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> because the tools in Autodesk 3D map do not allow users to crop whole continents

Maybe I misunderstand something ... you can only crop data if you have data to crop ... so again the question: which dataformat do you have the 3D data already?

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

I have used three other GIS software brands and like arc, sketchup, and other.
In the tool window you can import map data from lets say google earth. The max cropping area is small in these programs.
I am willing to get any data from any where for the task of making one USA elevation image in Autodesk.
Is it possible.
Autodesk has tools to work with a large map like all USA as one map for elevation.
Is it possible to import the enter map of America into Autodesk using Google earth.
OR any Any data raster set of elevation into Autodesk. Any DEM file for all USA.
Has no one in the world ever printed a country.
I think not after doing a goggle search. Nothing!
Thanks so much for helping.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

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 -

[Murph_Map]

Are you wanting a 3d model of the US or RELIEF  Map? If so why not just search for a DEM of the US instead of using Google Maps or Big Maps. 

Also have you look at the topographic models of the US that are already made? Do a Google search of Relief maps.