Mapping a forest or a land: Simply design a 3D plan to create a park, a tree climbing course, a house, a garden

By Cristina Rebiere and Olivier Rebiere

Want to design a 3D plan to create a recreational park, a tree climbing course, a house?

Do you need a preliminary draft of a terrain to draw 3-dimensional plans and make your dream come true? You do not have the means or the desire to call on professionals and want to take the measurements by yourself? Discover a simple simple method, step-by-step, which will allow you to take the necessary steps: you will need a compass , a clinometer and a some material. You will learn how to use the SketchUp Make software basic functions to create a cloud of points and a terrain with textures for an optimal 3D optimal rendering. Discover easy and cheap little books that will help you bring Nature into your daily life!

We have more than a decade of experience in the design and construction of acrobatic tree climbing structures. We have developed a simple method that will allow you to get good quality 3D plans

We want to share with you our useful knowledge and tips that will help you make significant savings.

You will discover useful little handbooks, always at your fingertips in your smartphone

N°10 – Mapping a forest or a land

In this issue we will see how to map trees or stakes spread over a sloping terrain and transcribe this « cloud of points » on a free 3D modeling software.

What will you find within this « eGuide Nature »?

- Notions of geometry and polar coordinates

- List of needed equipment

- Complete methodology (illustrations and tables)

- Introduction to using the SketchUp software

- Creating simple textures

So, you are ready to map your land by yourself?
Let’s go!

Kind regards,

Cristina & Olivier Rebiere

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cristina & Olivier Rebiere
• Release date: Mar 15, 2017

Cristina Rebiere

Courte biographie:Cristina Rebière est auteure de nombreux guides et livres. Elle a dirigé une maison d'édition, un parc d'aventures et mené à bien de nombreuses missions dans la fonction publique européenne. Elle est aussi spécialisée dans la formation continue.Ses origines:Après la Révolution roumaine, Cristina interrompt de brillantes études pour entrer à l'université en France où elle suit tout le cursus en faculté de droit et obtient une Maîtrise en Administration Économique et Sociale. D'abord chargée de communication dans un Institut Français en Allemagne, elle devient statisticienne à Bruxelles pour un bureau d'assistance de la Commission Européenne. De retour à Bucarest elle est successivement contrôleuse de gestion, directrice de maison d'édition, experte européenne puis professeure de français. En Roumanie elle fonde avec son mari une entreprise de team building puis le premier parc d'aventures jamais créé dans ce pays - construit de leurs mains - qui attirera des milliers de personnes, écoles et entreprises dans la pratique du sport et d'activités de cohésion en pleine nature. Avec son équipe, elle conçoit et construit des parcours d'escalade dans les arbres pour d'autres clients.Au rectorat de l'Académie de la Martinique, Cristina prend en charge la coordination de la Cellule Académique des Fonds Européens et de Coopération où elle accompagne les porteurs de projet dans le montage des dossiers, assure la formation en ingénierie de projet, gère un réseau de plus d'une soixantaine d'enseignants référents à l'ouverture internationale. Elle assure la gestion opérationnelle de plusieurs projets de coopération. Elle assure l'actualisation du site internet de la Délégation Académique aux Relations Internationales et à la Coopération.La pédagogie de Cristina Rebière est basée sur le pragmatisme et l'efficacité.Domaines de compétence:management de projet, voyage, marketing social de contenu, team building, formation initiale et continue, expertise en fonds européens, budgétisation, planification, productivité et stratégie, coaching, ingénierie financière, webmestre, statistiques, procédures, web intégration, conception graphique, communication, conception et construction de parcs d'aventure

Book preview

Mapping a forest or a land

Simply design a 3D plan to create a park, a tree climbing course, a house, a garden

- English, version 2 -

© Cristina & Olivier Rebière. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Welcome!

1. Notions of geometry, polar coordinates

2. Equipment needed

3. Measurement methodology

4. Points transcription on SketchUp Make

5. Creating the terrain texture

Credits

Authors

Welcome!

Hello!

We welcome you in your new Nature Passion: Mapping a forest or a land , a practical guide which we hope will help you measure, map and model by yourself a forest or terrain in order to carry out preliminary projects and/or draw up 3D plans at a lower cost. You are going to learn how to use the free SketchUp software in order to make 3D plans.

You may have an idea, a construction project that is close to your heart and not have yet the money or will to pay the services of surveyors, geometers, engineers and architects?

It is quite possible to carry out with the help of another person and within a few hours a fairly accurate mapping of a forest or a sloping terrain in order to generate a three-dimensional points cloud and draw up several temporary plans to make decisions based on several configurations of the terrain or layout for the proposed constructions.

With the presented method, you are going to make big savings as part of a preliminary project. You can always decide to make accurate measurements afterward, if necessary.

Here are some examples in which this method will be useful:

Design and build one or more tree-climbing courses

Building a house, a hut

Make a quick measure of a sloping ground (with or without trees) for which there is no plan established by a land surveyor

Landscape a garden or land with different structures (recreation, swimming pool, shed, etc.)

Set up a recreation area (kart track, terraces, bike trails, etc.)

Attention, this manual will help you to take action by yourself but it does not substitute to the services of the professionals mentioned above, who are the only authorized persons to issue legal documents that you can submit to the local and national authorities if you decide to build something. For all building permits or authorizations, always refer to the laws and regulations in your country!

What are we going to discuss in