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Surface Problems with Civil 3D and Google Earth 4.3

Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on May 19th, 2008

 

If you have had problems getting Civil 3D to build a surface from Google Earth, you are not alone. I thought maybe my laptop was angry at me again, but it turns out that the new version of Google Earth (the current download is 4.3) has changed something in how it handles the terrain model data. (By the way- importing Google Earth images into Civil 3D still seems to work just fine.) **This is nothing that Autodesk can fix. The problem lies with Google.**

Read more after the jump, and find the work around here.

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