Very thought provoking, just where is AI going? Perhaps we have to debate this properly before this sort of thing. Genie and out of the box spring to mind.

Bob, I did a quick search before hitting the sack (its 2.45am here). Have a read hear, http://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33341

To upgrade from my current version 6.5 to 8 will cost $880, that is a ton of money for an upgrade, I'm torn.

@rich o brien said:

@cadmunkey said:

I raised this during the beta but was ignored. Last time I'll waste my time testing for Abvent.

I'm disappointed to hear this Rich, another example of Sketchup being ignored. A lot of their pre-release videos were ArchiCAD and Autodesk Revit based, I kept having to ask if they were still going to support Sketchup but never got much of a response.

@trixta said:

V-Ray for SketchUp. 😄

You can also check V-ray Benchmark results and decide accordingly.

@rich o brien said:

I tried it a year or so ago and found it very sluggish to use. Lots of spinning cursor time.

Yeah, I found it somewhat laggy, too. Still, not a bad app. I like Painter better, though. I have been messing with it since this morning, and I must say, it's been a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Good stuff.

Allright.

Thanks dood.

If you are doing some gaming then GTX. For normal CAD (AutoCAD) and SU you will see no difference in a Quadro card, especially for the price difference.
Here is an older test back in '13 with Quadros, GTX and AMD cards. I hate that they did not test SU with the cards but for normal CAD (AutoCAD, Inventor, Max) I can see no reason to spend the extra $$ on a Quadro.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-workstation-graphics-card,3493.html

NUMS! A handy numeric keypad for the Macbook Pro
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72%26amp;t=67911

Wonderful tool.

I would say it depends on the size of the SSD, the amount of data and your data structure. Of course basically as much as possible of your work files on the SSD. Durability shouldn't be a problem at all at these data rates.
I have all my data files (project files, documents, textures, models, materials, installers) stored on my file server. My recent projects and presorted textures and models on a 500GB SSD on the server (in RAID1). And the rest on HDD. All backuped to HDD. (so the network connection is the limiting factor)

Damn! Blender has grown over the years.

I guess it's a multi key operation, since I cant find a (select button, or whatever the key equivalent is for the "Left Click" button... I'm guessing the "left click" and the copy buttons can not be added together. So the best I can come up with is to first use the "left click" button than use the "copy" button than use the "left click" button again and than choose the "paste" button and than use the "Left Click" button again. You cant just put the curser over an object and pick copy, move it where you want it and hit the paste button. So instead of 2 button set of actions you must use 5 to accomplish the same thing.

So a time factor 5! 😄(Titan / Rysen)

To wrap this up, we actually ended up ordering the following:

http://www.dell.com/uk/p/xps-15-9560-laptop/pd?oc=cnx95603%26amp;model_id=xps-15-9560-laptop

XPS 15 9560
Processor - 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ Quad Core Processor (6M cache, up to 3.8 GHz)
Operating Systems - Windows 10 Home 64bit English, Dutch, French, German, Italian
Memory1 - 16GB DDR4-2400MHz; up to 32GB (additional memory sold separately)
Hard Drive - 512GB PCIe Solid State Drive
Video Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 with 4GB GDDR5
Display - 15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) InfinityEdge display

Decided the Alienware, although it had a great spec, was not right as it came with Win 10 Home and really wasn't comfortable with the design for use as a work laptop (customer facing etc)..

The Dell has a better processor and overall the package is reviewed very well..

I look forward to testing it out when we get it!

Thank you all for your invaluable help with this..

Firefox at the mo, IE is pretty much dead and Edge can go and play in the fast lane of the M1 northbound. I did try chrome but the constant nagging to sign in got to me. Firefox is far from perfect but I would go batty trying out all of the browsers out there.

Was be used for validate this mathematical physic problem about Super Nova
(sorry in French) but you can put subtitles! 💚 (CC button)
(Support voice's speed *1.5, *2) Gear button! 😉
and you have many videos in English of this crazzy guy! 😎

Youtube Video

Youtube Video

Beautiful. thanks! The Exploratorium is right here in San Francisco.

As a follow up I can say that I finally managed to install MysticThumbs by downloading and installing Ghostscript first and then MysticThumbs.
I'm still a bit annoyed that they haven't bothered to answer any of my support requests.