lol! Ah, the Schengen Agreement! ...

@mike lucey said: Guys, We are working on something along these lines. Mike well Mayor, glad to hear that

@unknownuser said: "model for moolah"(TM)? buy the dot com quick!

@kdsdesign said: I drive a c350 but no pics (now its crashed) my wife has an XF only pic was at the dealer. Damn! over 256kb oh well of course kevin drives a mercedes!

Hi Gunawan I don't think Image Modeller can do what I'm suggesting, neither can similar app Photomodeler, as they both calculate perspective. Great for photographs where the perspective is accurate but less useful for hand drawn sketches. But it is quick and easy to sketch accurate isometrics so it would be nice to be able to scan these and translate them to 3D. But the interface would have to know that the image is a parallel view with no vanishing points.

[flash=600,400:wxhb5wn0]http://www.youtube.com/v/HX1Pq0sFLwM&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:wxhb5wn0]

Before saying that "its all legal", the first few pages of the document the scans came from should be scrutinized. It is doubtful that Ford Motor Company published any intellectual property without restriction.

All the best for a grim looking 2009 everybody. Here's hoping to a much brighter future, somewhen.

Thanks R, and All The Best To You. I should have mentioned that my house is totally hardwired with CATV and everything links to a central hub area. I went wireless about three years ago and all was good except the furthest point. The house is built on the side of a hill and I often joke - there's more steel and concrete than in the 'Golden Gate Bridge' holding it up. Anyway my issue is I use my MacBook most of the time in this area and the wireless signal has dead spots...BTW, tried a booster - not great. Cheers, DE

Great pictures Pete...in the first one you look like your holding your ass in pain...

Not entirely relevant, but theres a very good example of lod modelling here: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=117868 Also shows use of normal maps to get a very high amount of detail in to a low poly model.

Another vote for a cloth draping tool, please Theres a good paper on it here: http://teknikus.dk/tj/gdc2001.htm if anyone fancies reading in to it a bit more.

Burkhard, I am with you, Architex also for me is THE font I use with SketchUp. I use it even for elaborated projectdescriptions. As a mac-user I very often use 'pages' as my prefered projectdescription-software and even there my prefered font is 'Architex'. It always gives a real design-ish, development-like style to my presentations. It is my standard font for SketchUp, and in combination with some specific styles it gives me the perfect way to present my projects, without the need of (m)any other programs but SU. Only for real production-info I change to arial. My suggestion: have you contacted Grant Marchall directly? He used to be a very great SU fan and made very nice and surprising contributions, untill he left the communitee a few years ago. (If I remember well, it had to do with the 'take-over' by Google, but I might be wrong.) His website is still alive, although not updated recently. But still... maybe as the 'founding father' of this font he might be willing to help you out and add those special german fonts to the range and maybe some more like à,á,è,é,ó,ò,ï (and I have a few more in mind). By any means I would like to offer you my help in extending this font-range. Let's not forget that there is also the Architex bold, we then have to think of. PM(Personal Mail) is also a possibility to talk further about this subject/project.

Their also shutting down until Obama is in office (seriosly)

In a similar vein: [image: banksygraf230.jpg]

Belated? Still eleven days of Christmas to go, Ron. Merry Christmas! Keep up the good Cheer on into a Happy New Year.

@tobobo said: Engineer's can't do anything without a set of drawings No, the main thing is to present the design so that you are not liable for anything Anssi

Merry Christmas

Well, here we celebrate Christmas in Christmas Eve (starting with a inner) so in about 4 hours from now (GMT+1) we're also there.

Zmodeler is the program you want..It has the converter for the files..I use it all the time..