This is absolutely amazing because it really initiates a new level of interaction between engineering design tools and Google Earth. If you think Google Earth is neat, you really need to see Google Earth augmented with Civil3D data. Autodesk has just announced the Civil 3D 2007 Extension for Google Earth—Technology Preview. This is a publishing utility that is designed to publish Civil 3D objects and design data in Google Earth. This means that you can publish not just points, but more complex objects such as parcels, alignments, corridor models, surfaces and hydraulic networks. The utility creates a KML file that can be opened directly in Google Earth. By simply providing an URL to the KML file you can allow others to view and navigate your design data in Google Earth. Secondly, inside Google Earth, you and others can add layers of data, including buildings, transportation systems and other data to build geospatial context. You can also include such visualization capabilities as realistic “drive-throughs” along road centerlines and snapshots of locations and you can associate design points with 3D objects, such as light poles, houses and cars along a street .
Download
The Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Extension for Google Earth—Technology Preview is available immediately
for download free of charge. To run the utility, you need Civil 3D 2007 installed as well as Google Earth (The extension is compatible with the free version of Google Earth, as well as Google Earth Plus and Google Earth Pro). To access the utility download, go to
Samples
Some public samples have been posted at www.landxml.org/schema/UserSamples/UserTransformSamples.htm.
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