google earth connection - globe link vs google earth extension

[rpict]

while exporting revit models to google earth via globe link, I discovered a strange behaviour when the target aerea is not flat. (pic_1)
this is caused by the "relative to ground methode" used in the exporter to calculate the geometry z-coordinate.
looks like deconstructivism, but I guess this is not the intention of the inventor.

exporting through autocad's google earth extension (labs.autodesk.com) keeps the model upright. (pic_2)
this methode uses an enapsulated collada file.
but with this approach you don't have access to the materials of the model inside google earth anymore.

hopefully a combination with the best of both exporters will make it soon into revit.

-rpict

[sbrown]

Yes, I too have noticed this. Can you explain how you used Autocads to export it correctly?

[rpict]

1) from revit export the model as fbx
2) in autocad -> importfbx
3) then -> publishkml

-rpict

[vennix.239720]

Building on the matterhorn?
beware the wrath of Reinhold Messner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKvrwehK0H4

Geert