Google Earth Plugin- How do you move the model?

[twiceroadsfool]

And i really hope the answer isnt "Go in to Revit and move the entire model," becuase i still cant figure out how the Earth Connector decides where to bring in the site image from Google Earth.

Long story short, i have a model. I go to the address where it is to be built, then i go ni to revit and hit the Acquire from Google Earth. When it comes in, the image and the bounding model lines are not lined up properly. Theyre off a few hundred feet, north-north-east. I can edit the group and move the items so they line up, but then when i export to Google Earth, the model is still in the wrong place. Its in the wrong place if i dont move the model group, too.

I get that the answer is to import from google earth FIRST, and model on top of it, for simplicities sake, but that doesnt read well when i cant find a rhyme or reason to how its defining the origin, or the fact that i have 7 models built already, lol...

Help?

[sfaust]

I was able to pick the group that it creates when you acquire and move the entire group and it worked. Try that...

That being said, it should work better or at least be better documented.

[twiceroadsfool]

I moved the group and it didnt work... Did you:

Edit the group and move everything IN the group?

Or Unpin the group and move the whole thing?

Then how did you push it back out, did you use teh export to kmz, or the Publish to google earth? I tried the publish, and it grinded for about 2 hours, until i cancelled it. When i DID get it to work earlier, it was still in the wrong plce...

[sfaust]

I just moved the whole group, didn't edit the group at all. Then I just published it and it worked. I didn't mess with it too much, so maybe it was coincidence or something. As far as the time, mine published pretty quickly, but it was also a relatively small building in the early stages of design, so it's not that complex...

[Wes Macaulay]

In Google Earth, when you make the KML file to bring into Revit, I just move the placemark over and recreate the KML file. Sometimes it takes a few iterations ;-)

[twiceroadsfool]

Make the KML file? Ive been opening Google Earth, putting the location in, and then in Revit hitting "Acquire from Google Earth..."

Which was begging the question of what does google earth use as a location pointer...

Ill have to try it that way. So you make a KML file in google earth...?

[Wes Macaulay]

When you save a placemark out to file from GE, it creates a KML file. Earth Connector should be able to use it.

[lukec]

When you save a placemark out to file from GE, it creates a KML file. Earth Connector should be able to use it.

I see no one has posted on this thread in a long while, however I"m wondering if the problem was solved. I have a very similar issue. Our Revit template files are set up such that level 1 is at 100' rather than 0. Whenever I use the GE plug-in to aquire or import a kmz file, the GE site information is always 100' lower than my model. I've tried a variety of way of trying to use the relocated project tools in Revit, but to no avail. I also can't get the building model to move relative to the GE site by moving the GE site import in Revit. What am I missing?

[twiceroadsfool]

I did as Wes described, and it worked wonderfully. I made the KML file in Google Earth first, then imported it in to Revit. I moved the placemark of the KML file, THEN exported. Didnt affect the Z axis though... Try moving the placemark down a hundred feet? (Or up, or whatever...)

[lukec]

I did as Wes described, and it worked wonderfully. I made the KML file in Google Earth first, then imported it in to Revit. I moved the placemark of the KML file, THEN exported. Didnt affect the Z axis though... Try moving the placemark down a hundred feet? (Or up, or whatever...)

When you say you exported, do you mean you exported to a KMZ file and then did a File -> Open in GE? I tried that too and had no luck ... or did you import the KMZ to Revit, then publish to GE?

[twiceroadsfool]

ive tried it both ways and had varying success. Ive been using the publish to GE. Worth noting, my 2 32 bit stations run out of memory trying to publish the model back to GE. It had to do with which catagories i exported (i wanted most of them on).

64 bit vista station did it almost instantly...

[Wes Macaulay]

One thing I hate about Autodesk's and Avatech's GE connectors is that the Revit model warps to match the surface of the GE model -- it's really bizarre. But export the Revit model to SketchUp and then to GE from there and it works fine. :?

[twiceroadsfool]

I turn off terrain in GE for that reason.

Going through sketchup is great, unless you want any capabilities in terms of different catagories being visible...

[Wes Macaulay]

l I turn off terrain in GE for that reason.

A lot of our projects are at ski hills; we don't have that luxury ;)

[twiceroadsfool]

Sure you do.... Level the terrain in GE and model the mountain in Revit. :)

[dbaldacchino]

Bring the mountain to Mohammad (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_is_if_mohammad_wont_go_to_the_mountain_bring_the_mountain_to_mohammad_written) lol!