So motivational, so much energy. thanks John Alan

Holy crap. Shocked There are so many things that could've gone wrong with that setup- that guy must have a deathwish. I wonder what the G's actually were? Jackson

great job Jackson... your sleuth is unbeatable! Krisidious

Ross Mmmm. Now Iwonder if my wife would be happy trying that out in the lounge. Its a bit wet over here at present. I'm sure I read an article in Fine Woodworking years ago about these 'races'. Its sounds like a great day out. cheers Alan.

Ah Juan .... nothing perfect but its close Bryan, be sure to look me up when over the neck of the woods. Mike

I'm in the process of letting one go myself. walkinfurniture dot com. After I finished a cherry Study project back in 2002, and I considered it to be "walk in furniture", I reserved the domain. But, alas, I'm no longer in that line of work. Todd

@anssi said: So nobody remembers MacPaint? It was black and white, and I loved it. The application, together with MacWrite and the operating system fitted on a single 600 Kb floppy, with space left over for documents. The year for me was about 1986-7 Anssi I remember when I grasped the concept of FATBITS. What a revelation! You'd actually manipulate individual picture block thingies! Oh yeah- prixels, right? :ewink:

Thanks for all the info everyone. It was really helpful. I bid the next project as suggested seperately with modeling time and animation. That was VERY good advice. Thanks again!

Thanks Mike, will give it a chop...... A

Thanks for the links Mike. The price is already coming down then. I'm very interested in the prospects of having diy 3d printers but the RapRep project seems still quite rudimentary The fabbers seem to be a bit further on. I've downloaded a free version of Pepakura, a free "model unfolder". Interesting. http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/

Thanks Edson. I will look this over carefully.

Hi, I've learnt to say no. Some time back a friend asked if I would rebuild some picture frames that they had bought cheap. The mitres were poor. You were looking at a couple of days work. I asked if their husband would replay the favour by doing some work on my computer. 'Oh I dont think he will have time to do that' Sorry, I dont have the time. We still do small jobs for one another, but not ones that days to complete. Alan

Thanks a lot Tinanne. This is a really helpfull information.

lapx This is really interesting and very appropriate for me. I work for a company that builds and markets software for the construction of garages, decks, and post frame buildings and coming soon houses. Our Design Tools product allows you to build, print drawings for stamping and as well take off professional estimates. We build in local sku numbers and as well the designs are engineered to local codes. There is quite a lot of data gathering required when ever we enter a new market anywhere in the world. Although I haven't looked closely yet as you can understand this application that you have pointed out could be a very large help to us in the data gathering process and a quick method of checking the designs that our render engine creates. Thanks very much..this is an eye opener.

I did have a go with the free version of Alibre, didn't look too bad. But events overtook me in the form of Autodesk's Inventor! However, I think all these programmes work in much the same way and I think Alibre has progressed since I tried it. If your'e interested in the more "mainstrean" 3D modelling I'd go.

Thanks for the heads up Eric. Jackson HP dv8000, Centrino Duo T2400 1.83GHz, 1.5Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce Go7400 SU, AutoCAD, Progecad, MicroGDS, Vue, Maxwell, VRay, Photoshop, Dreamweaver

@jean lemire said: Hi folks. Watch you head when going in or out of the back seat, the roof drops quite sharply at the back. Just ideas. You are probably right Jean but again I'd like to the in the front (driver) seat

At least it's been sunny and nice, warm here for the last couple of days, too. Thanks for the pics so far!

Bye the way I noticed your studio forum. My cousin by marriage is building a studio in New York right now so I sent the link to my wife so she can get it to him. He taught himself SU so he could design the concept.Thought it was interesting.