Once the add-on is installed, you will see Google Earth Connections in the File menu. All the parking will be subterranean, with two garage levels of approximately 126 stalls. of street level pedestrian oriented commercial space. There will be +/_ 96 residential units including 10 live/work units and approximately 10,000 s.f. The building is designed to have three stories of housing over street level commercial. The project is a mixed use feasibility design study in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle. While the Google Earth add-on has been available for the 32-bit Windows version for some time, recently GRAPHISOFT has released the add-on for the 64-bit Windows and Mac versions! Although there are still some limitations in the 64-bit version, we will discuss the workarounds.įor this article we will look at a recent project we collaborated on with Broderick Architects in Seattle, WA. To work with Google Earth and SketchUp data, you will need to download the free add-on available on Graphisoft and make sure that you have the Google Earth application installed. This gives you tremendous potential to bring contextual data together with your design. The Google Earth Connection takes this idea even further by giving you the ability to bring both Google Earth and SketchUp data into Archicad and by allowing you to publish your models to the Google 3D Warehouse. In our previous article, we looked at Archicad’s Align View command, and how you can see your design in the existing surroundings. This month we will discuss how you can work with GOOGLE EARTH.

In this series of articles, we will focus on residential design/build using Graphisoft’s Archicad. Whether you are using Archicad 15 or the Start Edition, you will be able to offer more value to your clients by following the techniques outlined in this series.

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