Hi Bob, I was reading about this a few weeks ago but was not aware of their site. Looks like it going to be a runner or should I say floater I have always thought that I would not mind taking a few days traveling to the USA and keeping my body clock some way synced. It could be an enjoyable flight in Summertime. Don't know about Wintertime with the bad weather over the Atlantic. However it looks like its first market is going to be the military. Didn't realise about the wasteful helium balloons! Then again we are misusing natural resources at a savage rate. Look at all the wasteful plastic packaging? Mike

@flapsyd said: I'm glad I never had to explain to people outside our country what B-H-V is/ was (!) all about because I probably wouldn't be able to (and I live in that area, so you can imagine) I can explain it, to some degree - at the cost of a severe headache. Thank God for Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde Anyhow, I am quite pleased they've come up with a solution. At least now they can address the real problems. You gotta give it to Di Rupo - he's one sly b*gger. Pun not intended.

@alan fraser said: And I absolutely loathe the practice of building modern estates of identical houses with windows, porches and conservatories which bear absolutely no relationship to the orientation of the house or the prevailing winds. You are so right Alan. Even driving around the countryside here, one will notice that many of the older country houses from small labour's cottages up to large country estate houses were orientated for maximum solar gain .... then along came the Planning Act in 1960 (or there abouts) and regimented constructions to have standard set backs parallel to the public road. Okay, its quite possible to design with these constraints but having the ability a 'skew' the house would make it a lot more efficient building

@Pete Windows is available to download and be installed from a 8GB stick. It's currently the Dev version but open to the public. Claims to boot in 8 secs.

Been playing around with this one for a while. Don't forget to download the different sound packs and add-ons.

Yes, it's quiet odd behavior! But, you can do it other way. First place dimensions by clicking, than use DIMSPACE command to auto adjust distance. First click base dimension, than select all U want to be adjusted to it.

I've made them with VirtualDub.

The good news are, two not calibrated monitors may give a general idea of how other users see your work I have a really calibrated monitor meaning, I can see sRGB profile as it should be. Most of all, I use a different profile when going for DTP, this last isn't a standard but looks very close to imagesetters-proofing prints.

Mushtaq, You may have already found all of this with Google, but just in case, this first one could be very good depending on your needs. This may be the most usefull. It has floor plans of a working studio campus in PDF form. http://secondlinestages.com/ This is a small note on Green Screen setup. You gotta have green screen. http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Up-a-Green-Screening-Studio This contains about 90 movie studios worldwide. Could be used to reference well known as well as obscure studio’s information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_studio This site has a presentation that shows a lot of organizational diagrams, charts on industry structures and management structures, in case your need includes the money and people side of the studio http://www.slideshare.net/chakulan/motion-picture-studio-strategy-and-managment-presentation Hope this is helpful. Lloyd

Hi Mike %(#0000BF)[this clip for you, thanks] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGOo2QxSREQ&feature=player_embedded#! this is quite interesting as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkLKX_bnuc&feature=player_embedded#!

@ pilou, 3ds format works fine as SU will weld all double vertices automatically. Thank you Rich.

I'm keeping mine as an incentive. I'm determined that I'm going to be able to wear it at some point this year without looking like the love-child of a Smurffette and the Michelin man.

The launch trailer has been posted on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDAAbZonfOQ but the clips describing the processes have not. Sorry! Kind regards, Bob

http://picasa.google.com/support/ It's probably your best bet as this forum is primarily SketchUp. Some here might know but in the mean time you could try the link above

Hi folks, thanks (yet again), now it's (hang)over.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=37391&hilit=antivirus

$4 million for a temporary solution sounds like a lot of money. May be earthquake resistant but a flood will surely soak and soggy the cardboard tubes,if I remember correctly the last earthquake came bundled with floods.

Oops, Lake Taupo it is! Just had a long and tiring day. Another 'duh' moment in my life. Thanks for the correction.

Free Bird!

So they gave you no answer but the one you got was confusing? Do you have a link to your question over there please? You must be registered under a different username.