I’m trying to import a simple box made in Rhino into google earth pro in to a specific location. So far, I’ve used EarthAnchorPoint to declare that 0,0,0 is an specific coordinate.
Unfortunately , the generated kmz fails to place the box in google earth in the correct location. I’ve inspected the kml inside. and I noticed that the coordinate generated is not exacty the coordinate declared in EarthAnchorPoint… Am I missing any step? has anybody encounterd this issue?
I’m attaching the rhino file here, and a reference anchor point… Hope anybody can suggest a workaround .
Your .kmz file contains only the .kml file but not the .dae model.
Did you select your actual 3d geometry before doing the _Export command?
Also, be sure to not mix decimal with minutes and seconds while setting the coordinates.
In rhino you have to also set north and east with EarthAnchorPoint.
Also, after imported you have to set altitude to “absolute” manually, otherwise Google Earth will use your Z=0 as on ground level.
At your coordinate i don’t see any structure resembling your rhino geometry.
It’s my first time knowing about kmz/kml/dae and google earth stuff, but if you give me a screenshot of the real location on satellite view with the exact coordinate of your structure, I can make a quick step-by-step video.
(maybe share the location as link from google maps?)
Ok it was mostly my mistake of not understanding how the altitude “command” works. Now I see EarthAnchorPoint altitude should be set 0, so that the kmz will insert in whatever elevation the terrain has at the given Latitude and Longitude. That is whay my model was always flying in the air. (by the way, I also had a mistake in a coordinate number). I’m attahching here the correct one. You can seave as kmz that rhino file and open into google earth