It does, but not with the demo mode restrictions - if I remember correctly, converted meshes have holes poked in them, as every fifth polygon is removed.

Best cover so far.

Looks like the emperor has new clothes to me...

One day about a year ago I interviewed for a consulting job with a local museum display company (times were real tight). During the interview I got a tour of the facility. While on the tour the CEO happened by to discuss an issue with the interviewee. I was introduced to the CEO and he promptly asked me if I used Solid Edge or Solid Works. I said "neither, I use Google SketchUp Pro". He literally turned his nose up and mouthed something to the interviewee. I later found out the CEO did not want me on board, even though he did not have any direct influence or knowledge of the project I was being interviewed for. The interviewee hired me on anyway and I did my job as advertised. Unfortunately for me it took almost 4 months to get paid and I did not release any finals until then. Since that time I have been asked many times to do more work for them as it was very valuable. And; "we have changed the way we handle our billing and payments". I told them no thanks.

@john.warburton said: This is an April Fool thing, right? I certainly hope so... Nobody can be that stupid...

@tfdesign said: There's no such thing as 'wonder technology' "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. "But what ... is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. " There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

Mega textures are cool. Heres a movie: [flash=800,480:3gwpu4ac]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7481946[/flash:3gwpu4ac] There is currently also a plugin for Unity under development for mega textures called Virtual texture.

Me too.

Regardless if it is Rhino, it's totally doable in SU.

that's pretty kool Simon, I didn't think they could do it that cheaply in the swamp, but I guess it would have been simpler than I thought.

@leedeetee said: Going to watch 'The Eagle' tonight, looking forward to it. Well, I enjoyed it. It's no masterpiece but a great leg severing, head chopping, testudo forming adventure story with some great scenes and good cinematography.

............and if you ask an engineer if a glass is half full or half empty he will simply say the glass is the wrong size, while the real answer is, Waiter, bring another before I finish this.

We have some v2's in work but still haven't had a play with them, ill give you my verdict next week

Been using Gett for awhile. Not bad. Read about this the other day... http://www.joukuu.com/ Manage multiple online storage accounts. Having tried it yet but looks promising

I just want more!

Lets give the survivors a break, they "fear" for their lives. The contamination is getting worst. Who can say where this will go. How come there are NO "National/International charity rock concerts" to raise money in America? A local Hawaii TV station had a fund raiser, but where are those like "Elton", and others?

@solo said: Csaba, very true, in fact I recently did this with a person you know (no names mentioned) who has pretty much spammed FB with their SU related product, it got so irritating that I could no longer handle it and worked against that person IMO. And I think this will get even worse and become more evident when they are using software that auto posts to a bunch of different networking sites at once.

http://www.alecrivers.com/3dmodelingwithsilhouettes/ Interesting paradigm. Think this could be a complement 2D > 3D sketching.

The interaction between SU and BIM applications has always been a mixed bag. In the stone age SU had import plugins for Archicad and Autodesk Architectural Desktop that attempted to translate SU models into the native objects of these applications, with not-that-impressing results. Vertical faces were translated into walls, horizontal into slabs and oblique ones into roofs, and hole-cutting components into doors and windows. Good idea, but the results were usually messy with many redundant objects etc. unless your SU model was very simple, preferably a clean outer shell of a building. Today SU models can be imported into Revit and Archicad either as imported objects or mass models. So SU can be used in a limited way to model things like furniture or other things that do not have to be parameter-driven. Also, I haven't found a way to smooth curved SU surfaces in either application, so in hidden-line 3D views SU-imported curved objects are fairly unusable. The same things apply largely to imported "mass models" too. As SU is a face-modeller, the usual massing tools don't work, but you can apply building elements to SU faces. I am now doing my first full project in Revit. On the whole I feel it is quite a powerful tool, but it works quite differently from traditional CAD. It is almost totally about modelling/managing the building database, and if you look to work in a traditional CAD way you should probably look elsewhere. I always say that my ideal BIM application would be a mixture of Revit and Archicad features, with the SketchUp interface. Anssi

Forwarded many time, thanks! @solo said: Pretty cool one.