EnjShape is a pure Ruby plugin for Sketchup that allows you to import ESRI Shapefiles.
Download: version 0.2
Usage:
1) Make sure enjshape.rb and the enjshape directory are in your Sketchup plugins directory.
For me this is:
Windows -
C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Plugins
Mac OS X -
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/plugins
2) Go to Preferences -> Extensions and activate the plugin ENJ’s Shapefile Importer
3) Go to Plugins -> EnjShape -> Import Shapefile
4) Open a Shapefile!
Functionality:
Currently supported Shapefile types:
Point
Arc (PolyLine)
Polygon
If your shapefile is in WGS84 (LatLong) it is flattened (to a 2d plane) and converted to inches (but still georeferenced)
If your shapefile is already projected to a 2d coordsys you can just specificy whether the units are in feet/meters
Shapefile -> Google Earth
1. Open Google Earth
2. Open SketchUp
3. Import (latlong) shapefile into SketchUp using EnjShape
4. Use the “place model” tool to put the model in Google Earth
5. Click on the model in the Google Earth navigation to zoom to the model
6. In SketchUp click the “get current view”
7. Now you can use the “toggle terrain” tool to accurately edit the imported shape for use on Google Earth
Testing:
I don’t have use cases for a lot of the shapetypes. They are implemented according to the shapefile spec, but may have bugs. If you run into one please contact me and give me sample data so I can debug.
Shoutouts:
Props to SwaJime for swa.rb which taught me a lot and gives the latlong converting functionality through his LLAtude class.
Thanks to the one who pointed out I could write this myself instead of waiting.
-Ian Johnson
enjalot@gmail.com
Dear Ian,
I have a question regarding your EnjShape SketchUp plugin. I try to import a shapefile into SketchUp 7.1 Pro at my MAC. But after pressing the button “Render” nothing happens. I found this question already at some internet forums, but without solution.
Do you meanwhile know why the import ends without result and error message?
Your help is highly appreciated.
With best regards from Germany (only 3rd place, NL is 2nd: congratulations!),
Andreas
Andreas,
Thanks for your comment, I think I may have fixed the problem. I found 2 bugs, so hopefully the updated code will work for you. Let me know!
temporary comment:
this looks promising but the zip file does not seem to be valid with any zip tools – is it possible that since your recent update the zip has problems – or maybe its just at my end? – thanks in advance – Mark
Hi Mark,
I just rezipped the code manually (instead of using the github.com zip file)
The link should hopefully work now
Thanks
Ian
I got through the installation OK. I opened Google SketchUP to import a shapefile. Hear is where hte problem started. First I noticed that the type file drop down was empty. As you know shapefiles are made of multiple files. Consequently I couldn’t actually open a “shapefile.” That’s as far as I got. Can you help me? Google SketchUp is now hung.
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still having problems opening the zip folder
Paul,
Perhaps your browser cached the zip file?
I can open it fine on Mac and Linux (sorry I don’t have a windows machine to test with right now)
At some point there was a problem with the zip file but I redid it and it should be fine now