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

I read the announcement also, and was glad to see Ruby being used as the scripting language. Too bad it appears to be only available in the Pro version.

It's hard to make in-depth tutorials for a moving target, but be free to ask questions at Thea Render forums. When features are frozen for release, there will be more tutorials.

Check out their forums as in the showcase section there are unbelievable things. There is a Plugins section (on the top) with all sorts of free and commercial plugins, too. Also, they have an additional software: "Flashificator" (actually, more pricey than the core itself I think some € 55) which has some intuitive UI for editing everything like hotspots. I have not tried them yet but want to. I am hoping to have a decent (pay) project soon where I will use this software and then I will definitely buy that additional thing. Edit; if you purchase the software, it will be shipped with all sorts of example projects and tutorials, too.

whoa...

adam, the latest developments are quite impressive. Lu is becoming a very complete rendering plugin. congrats on your work. I have not had time to play seriously with LU but I am very anxious to do it. I'll get to it soon enough.

@escapeartist said: Wow! Wonder how good it is? I haven't tried it. (nor do I see myself needing it right now) Thought it was interesting though.

Hi Martin great job with the snapshot thing, thats helpfull. is there a possibility to have Shaderlight run on a "iddle mode" ? on my computer it seems like it's consuming a lot of RAM. therefor, I'd like to run it when not working on SU... in fact I'd like to have both mode : live, and iddle... hope you're fine.

@xrok1 said: seems like your going backwards 1.9 to 1.1 ????? the trailing 0 has no value so you might need to rethink your revision numbering 1.09 to 1.1 might be more appropriate. one would expect ver 1.95 or 2.0 to be next No, the trailing zero has a significance - he's going from 9 to 10 (nine to ten). And application version numbering isn't like normal decimal numbers, the numbers before and after the period is independent. I for instance use versions like 1.4.2 (Major.Minor.Revision) Major number increases in major application changes - like rewrites etc or when there's major compatibility changes. Minor is often increased for new feature additions. Revision is often just bug fixes. There are different practices and norms though.

TIG, After your info i tested a lot, and i have the solution. When i make the pipe along path, i must reverse faces, but i forget before that to explode the group. Then the faces are not reversing. So it works now i have learned another lesson today. And FM in Kerkythea means Face Me. But without your answer i would still searching for an answer, so i would like say to you is my thanks.

Is it supported SketchUp 8?

I think my conclusion is that I won't bother to hook up all the machines to mess with the BIOS for this. cheers.

Thanks so much, Solo.

@mike lucey said: ...Will try it out on the iPad and see how it works. Please post some impressions. I want to know if it has some use. I see that you can make your own layouts too and they have one for Blender and other apps. I don't think that this app wants to replace the mouse rather than the keyboard.

Cool looking showreel.

Gotcha! Thank you Tomasz