Toggle Terrain Button

Use the Toggle Terrain button to toggle the Google Earth snapshot image between a 2D and 3D image.

Toggling Terrain

To toggle a terrain:

1. Get the current view from Google Earth using the Get Current View button. A 2D Google Earth image will appear by default.
2. Click on the Toggle Terrain button. The 2D Google Earth image will toggle to a 3D Google Earth image (with terrain).

Note - The Get Current View button actually captures two images from Google Earth, one with terrain and one without terrain. Each image is assigned to a different layer in SketchUp whose visibility is toggled using the Toggle Terrain button.

Tip - Develop your model on the 2D image then toggle to the 3D image and adjust the model's location to the contours of the terrain.