Creating a Topography Mesh from Flat Contours in SketchUp Tutorial

Creating a Topography Mesh from Flat Contours in SketchUp Tutorial

Many times a designer needs to create a topographic mesh from flat contours. Creating a landscape from flat contours can be easy but requires more hands-on work to get the contours to the proper height.  In my previous posts, Importing AutoCAD Civil Topography DWGs into SketchUp Pro Tutorial and Using Imported Civil DWG Parking Layouts to Drape onto a Sandbox Topography Mesh in SketchUp Pro Tutorial, I touch on this process using imported contours that already have elevation data attached to them. In this tutorial we will use flat contours…