Google Building Maker

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So in a separate video I show you how to take your own photographs and use SketchUp's match photo tools to generate model and then turn it into an energy model Google also has a web based tool called building maker that allows you to do this without even having SketchUp it also comes with oblique aerial photographs so you don't need your own and these are highly calibrated photographs which makes it a really nice process you can go to a web browser and search for building maker and just directly to through the website however if you do have SketchUp there is a little button here up called add new building so I'm ongoing to click that it's going to launch basically a web browser within SketchUp I'm going to maximize this so you can see it it's Google maps but you can't search for an address like you would if it was just the standard implementation of it you just have these cities that you can click on and if you don't want to zoom in and click on them you can also use the pull down and I'm going to choose Denver and it will zoom be in there this line represents the limits of their oblique photography so if I zoom outside that I'm more likely will not let me choose that as a location for the building so I'm going to zoom in on this building here I got a little ahead of myself here waiting on I'm using wireless for this so slower so there I go that little red indicator is what I want to pan around and have my building on top of that and as I zoom in close enough that will bring up the oblique photographs of the building and I'm going to start doing that now so when I start the building it will load six photographs and we can always add more to that I'm going to click this to add a box here you can add some other shapes too but a box is a good thing to start with so I'm going to pin the top corners of this I'm going to zoom in a little bit so it looks a little bit off here but it doesn't know anything about my building as a get these corners pinned down it'll start to behave more like it should or like you'd expect it to rather so I have the top and I'm going to pull this corner down here I know my building probably goes a little below that but for this exercise will stop there actually we'll just stop there for this one it will float a little in the air so when I go to my next photograph you'll notice it's close to the right place it's a little bit off I'm going to come over here and pin just a few points down and go to another photograph in each photograph we'll get tighter and tighter where I don't have to do much on it I actually do need to at least at a single pin if I want to use the textures from these buildings here and I think four is enough it comes with six and if you decide after you look at those six that have you don't have quite the angle you want then you can click add more and it will keep bringing on more you can also add street view images and then at some point you can add your own images too once you have done a little more calibration on your project so I'm done I few options here I can actually go to viewer and launch the Google earth plugin and here is my building that I just modeled and if I give it enough time textures will come on there so I've just modeled a I don't know fifteen story high-rise in about one minute now I can turn on other buildings but other reason I turned them off is as a suspected someone else beat me to modeling this building so you see two buildings on top of top each other with slightly different positions so what's nice about building makers is because you're working with these oblique photographs and it's using a photo metric process your accuracy is going to be really good you have a confidence that your building is going to be the appropriate height so if you’re going to use it for shading then it is going to give you accurate data for that so I'm going to go back to the editor and I'm going to a save now I forgot sign in building maker is actually really nice about this it will save my data while I'm doing that it should remember my model and I'm going to save that model now we could say that here and it will get published to Google earth if there wasn't one there but of when you do this within SketchUp you have the SketchUp export button if you just did this straight through a web browser you wouldn't see that button so I’m going to export it to SketchUp here I'm just going to leave the default name there so this will take a second I may cut some of this out so you don't have to watch that spin on your computer and OK so it's going to open up a new SketchUp file I don't need to save changes in my other one and I now have a SketchUp file with all the textures applied so what I could do now for example well a few things one you have all of these different scenes the scenes relate to the cameras that were set up in building maker you can also go to camera igloo and orbit around and see the different photographs that were used and then if I want to up to this photograph I can double click to line up with it and then hit return and it will zoom me in so I'm going to end this here and then we'll pick up a new tutorial next that will show you how to turn this into an EnergyPlus object