@tfdesign said: I tell you, Rhino is the AutoCAD killer for the Mac. It's so much faster than ACAD Mac. Thanks for the info Jeff. I was telling You - when You compare 30MB lighting faster Rhino with 1GB memory hog, slow and buggy AutoCAD...And v5 has improved their render a lot. And You gonna love Rhino layers - You can have sub-layers and sub-sub-layers - it is real tree structure. You can hide objects per layout viewport - not just by layers. And speaking of the pure 2 drawing capabilities - Rhino has much more drawing tools compared to AutoCAD. Not to mention the huge import-export file formats - truly open system, not like AutoCAD where they expect everybody to use only dwg format!

Hi Guys, Shameless plug for City Engine Vue. This is amazing technology for creating entire cities procedurally. Plus, it's available at an incredible price of $299 ($199 for C-Club members). The technology normally sells for $500 to $5,000. Here's a quick render I did in Vue with City Engine: [image: CityEngineScene2Cars.jpg]

I think in 5 years we will be working entirely in real time rendering mode

Filerfrog makes me think to Foldermenu, another killer app for windows...Give it a look at : http://foldermenu.sourceforge.net/ A big time saver to access your softs and folders. Cheers.

True. @unknownuser said: Ge.tt is entitled to delete files which have not been accessed for a longer period of time. However, this deletion shall only take place after minimum 30 days have passed since the end of the last download. If a file has not been accessed for download, the minimum storage period of 30 days shall being with the completion of upload. Too bad. I have seen expired download links to texture packs and similar. It is cool for quick sharing/sending however.

shame it's Intel only "Fatal Error: This program was not built to run on the processor in your system. The allowed processors are: Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo processors and compatible Intel processors with supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3) instruction support"

@mitcorb said: Yes, thanks for sharing. +1 Good find.

@unknownuser said: Its open to the public, so as long as you have a FB account So it's public for Face Book member So it's a relative public state! Else cool video of a Kichen maniac

Adam You are right but for the in-a-hurry Architect it does seem to fill a needed niche. Quick and dirty to get up and running and a no brainer to setup and output. Of course apps like your LightUP will do more and better but are not always needed for the Client et all in the Design Development phase of a project. Just a thought for the day. dtr

@d12dozr said: About navigating in a 3D PDF, I find those controls to work great for a looking at one part like that motor, but not as well for walking through a house. I'm guessing those controls are part of the Adobe PDF reader, but something like the Walkaround tool in Sketchup would be nice for navigating larger PDF's. Our aim in SimLab Composer is to make the model designer in control of the animation. The designer, selects the cameras to be included, and selects if they are animated or not. The camera can move along a path or it can automatically switch from one room to another. If the file recipient wants to investigate a view more, he can take control of the current view, after that usually he switches control back to the animation. The idea simply is to make the designer control the animation, I hope that this helps.

Maybe you'll find something here: http://www.badaboomit.com/ http://www.mediacoderhq.com/ -Badaboom (Videoconverter) -Media Player Classic (Medienplayer) -TMPGEnc KARMA..Plus -TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Videocodierung (Nur Vollversion) -Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Update 11.12.09) -Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 mit nachinstallierem Cuda-Patch (Update 11.12.09 -Cyberlink Powerdirector 7 (Update 11.12.09) -Cyberlink PowerDVD 9 (Update 11.12.09 -Nero Move It "mit Cuda-Patch von Nero" (Update 11.12.09) -CoreAVC vers. 1.9+ (VideoCodec welche die GPU rechnen lässt) -MediaCoder vers. 0.7+ (Audio u. Video Converter der Cuda nutzt) http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

I see. Waiting to test the new version

this plugin was kind of fun to use.. i like to use it too.. but as solo said, it was still depend the man behind the gun, to produce the stunning render. regards,

thank you for your advices

Thanks Gaieus for your advice. @gaieus said: Regarding your window colour: go to your material browser > In model, there select the window colour and go to the Edit tab. At the bottom, there is the transparency slider (I would use a less blue glass however). I was ignorant enough to try and edit the stock material, which is apparently attributed read only. The controls were at least disabled. [This item should of course have gone into the newbie forum.]

Thanks for the link Jim, the road from faces plugin I will definately get.

Well, I am a user of Allplan for fifteen years or more and I can say Allplan is a great peace of junk. It's very expensive, it's complicated und there is only a rudiment of a virtual building. The best about Allplan is the money they spend in advertising. So, why I'm so rude? Very easy! Yes, you can build a virtual model and feed it with data. But all functions to get a benefit out of your model are only half developed. There are a lot of known bugs which are not fixed for years and after a main release there are certain new bugs in functions, which worked properly before (e.g. in version 2008 the dimensioning tool was fine, in version 2009 it took a service release to fix it). In the german nemetschek allplan forum are a lot of dissapointed users. They all stay with Allplan, because they paid so much money (and my boss, too) until now and they all HOPE that the bugs get fixed in the next main release. From my point of view I can say: Allplan is far away from a modern BIM-based CAD. The only usable and payable BIM-based CAD I know are ArchiCAD and Revit. Torben

I also think that Dave has updated the exporter to handle larger SKP files.

kc10, for idx, maybe you can get better help on their forum. It also helps to post a image of your problem. As I recall, background images are included in the idx environment menu. You should be able to select your view in Sketchup, then render in idx by matching screen size.

Hi guys I know some of the links are dead, I wrote the RainBath and CityUp as part of my masters; I'll try and get the site fixed etc within the next few days. In the mean time I would appreciate; if you download RainBath and gave it a try. http://rainbath.imcore.eu Downloads page. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Will Lynn RainBath IMCORE