

Type in the location you’d like to import maps from into your model. This will pop up a window showing a Google map and a search bar. Go down and check the box labeled “Google,” and select the close option at the bottom of the screen. Navigate to view at the top of the screen, then select the toolbars option. The second is to activate the Google toolbar. The icon for Google Maps is located in the getting started toolbar at the top of the screen.


There are two ways to get to the maps tools in SketchUp. This video is specifically designed to teach you how to import Google Maps into your model. Since SketchUp was owned by Google and initially used to crowdsource their Google Earth modeling, there are powerful, easy to use tools built into SketchUp to help both import maps into your models and also to geolocate models in Google Earth. One of the more powerful functionalities in SketchUp is its ability to integrate your models with data from Google Maps.
