SimuTerra Gallery

(Also see the Exterior3D Gallery. SimuTerra was built upon Exterior3D.)

DTM created in SimuTerra; further work done in SketchUp. Courtesy Daniel Tal, Landscape Architect, studioINSITE, LLC.

DTM created in SimuTerra; Google Earth terrain draped onto model in SketchUp. Courtesy Spencer Harris, Michael Lee Design LLC, Orem, Utah.

THIS IS A SILENT MOVIE: (QuickTime) (Flash). "And here's something more advanced that I did using SimuTerra and a topographic map of Quebec City (Canada). I traced the topo map contours and extruded them in SketchUp to their altitudes. This made a foam-core-type stair-step model. Exporting to Simuterra was able to smooth-out the steps. Back in SketchUp I used the eye-dropper to paint the jpg texture maps onto the mesh that SimuTerra creates." Courtesy of Justin Stahlman

Credit: John Wehby (final image), David Rich (modeling in SimuTerra and SketchUp), Marlin Studios (background image)

Bezier curves used in SketchUp to create terrain and a road. Exported to SimuTerra, which created the DTM. Exported back to SketchUp for final processing. Courtesy of David Rich. See image above from John Wehby, which was made from this model.

About 50,000 contour segments; creating the DTM took about 15 seconds on a Pentium 3 500 MHz portable. Draping a grid of about 4,000 squares greatly reduces the polygon count in the exported DXF file, but misses some of the detail. Courtesy of anonymous donor.

Foam core model and two curves exported from SketchUp. SimuTerra created the DTM, including the roads, and animated the cars. In this screenshot, both existing and proposed contours are displayed in the 2D view, while textured triangles and the original foam core edges are displayed in the 3D view. Courtesy of Joerg Koch (and then Erez Anzel added the cars).

Road with curbs. CAD or similar program creates polylines to represent edges, then SimuTerra is used to create a DTM including those edges. The results are imported into SketchUp.

Road with curbs in SketchUp, cleaned up by Paul Miller.