Putting Up Buildings (Google Earth and Sketchup)

Start Google Earth and Google Sketchup

Navigate to your desired location in Google Earth. Zoom in and center on your planned building site.

Go over to Sketchup and click the Get Current View button. After a few seconds, the result should be something like this:


(1) You can use the Orbit button to tilt the view a bit so you can see your building site better. (2) Use either rectangle, circle, or pencil tool to draw your building's footprint. (3) Use the Push/Pull tool to 3-dimensionalize your building.




Next, add whatever features you want to jazz up your building.

Finally, click the Place Model button.


Go to Google Earth. In the Places Table of Contents you should see a new entry referring to your drawing. Select this entry and right click and select properties and give it an appropriate name. Then right click and click Save Place As. You can save as KMZ format (compressed) or KML format (uncompressed).


Here is a link to the one that I just created following these steps:
New Vera Long Building