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..

Inspiring studio setting

Thanks pbacot. I am glad that you posted and helped to keep this topic alive. I will be dedicating more time to it in the new year when I get for free time. Mike

When I was in school, Corbu, and Mies (and many others) were still alive. They were all part of the movement to rebuild Europe after WWII. After them came Nemier, Kahn, and others still seeking to exemplify the best of mankind in Architecture. I recall looking our over the city thinking that Architects would play a essential part of the "brave new world". After more decades then I care to own up to, I still believe, but only to the extend of the simple projects I work on. In the manner that I studied Architecture, Geary is the quintessential "Artist Architect". After all, one comes to see that there are many ways to "skin a cat".

@chris fullmer said: I just spent a few minutes looking into thi in more depth, and it's not really a useable program per se. Its a bunch of libraries to build into a program. So its not really useful for me. I have no programming abilities. Maybe Todd, Rick, TBD, or someone else wants to develop a robust cross platform free version for SU That includes animation no doubt! Chris I know it's not a program, that's why I made sure not to include the word program in the title of the thread, but it DOES come with example applications that you can run. My first Idea was to replace the model used in an example with one of my own, exported as a .wrl file, and although I did that, I couldn't find where in any of the code it specified what model to use, and there were no tutorials to show how.

remus, Thanks for the feedback, the uploader is something i am looking to improve definitely. It would also be nice to have a progress bar as opposed to a spinning gif image cheffey Cheers, please do submit.. all I was getting dangerously close to my bandwidth limits this month, which is great.. it means the site is growing however it meant sorting out improved file storage. Since my last post i have put a system in place for support of Amazon S3, this means even better speeds both on the website (because other users downloads happen from Amazon's servers and don't bog ours down) and on the downloads themselves as Amazon have datacenters around the world - which you should find are VERY FAST. At the moment just the most popular files have been transfered, but the rest will be over the next week and any new files will be automatically Cheers!

@unknownuser said: I have been going through this thread in the past few days with 'shock and awe'. Apart from everything else, I agree with the Major that this WednesdayThursdayFriday acronym is uncivil, and sickening going by the rate at which it is dished out. This topic had evoked many thoughts in my mind but what I would bring forward is just this: why do we allow and tolerate this kind of behaviour? I don't find the phrase that offensive, but just silly and juvenile, Just like many useless one word posts. I am surprised others are so offended, but we are a mix of cultures after all. I am sorry if the banter has offended some. We were supposedly poking fun at the excessive use of this term by one member. This is the corner bar but there has to be limits so more people are not disgusted and the forum is well represented. We all know it can get extreme. In the end, most of us are here to get help and inspiration, sometimes a little joking. Mike's the boss here. Thank you Mike.

That's the idea, Phil. I no longer have the original .fla file; if I did, I'd send it to you so you could see the actionscript. In that example, there are about 24 invisible "piano keys" overlaying the flash symbol...each one linked to a specific image.

Perhaps we should point KDS in their direction. When changes back in to being poor mode he could give them his details.