So here’s my attempts…
One of the nodes in Marcel’s link required some kind of sign-up to google with credit card details… it wasn’t a route i wanted to go down, so I got lat/long coords from a different website and plugged them in. No big deal.
I’m importing to a family environment, this keeps the nasty cad metadata away from my project file, it is very fast and if I partially explode, it’s very easy to push and pull the import. Creating the buildings from lofted curves worked out the most robust, I got issues extruding patched surfaces.
The only stuff I’m really missing is roads, not sure why!
Here’s a different route using QGIS (free) if you have LIDAR it’s a bit more involved but would get you accurate heights from GIS data…
Hope that’s interesting…
Mark
GIS2BIM-2.dyn (923.1 KB)
QGIS Building Heights.dyn (28.6 KB)