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.

Inspirational...fun!

Happy Noruz...

If you are asking me, no, but as you might guess, prior to vpc, the network did not use ubc.

The west needs to get its ar*e behind Thorium (and stop invading counties such as Libya!) With the amount of money we spent going after Saddam, we could have easily used that for Thorium-based nuclear development.

That featured on an episode of Grand Designs. For me, the finished building is an architectural tour-de-force, but does not appeal as a home.

I dunno, IMO a good way to explain to children without freaking them out. Some American children brought up in the era of the nuclear war scare would have recurring nightmares about the bomb.

@dave r said: re: Embedding. When you click on Embed under the video, also tick the box for Use Old Embed Code. Then you can get the code you need to embed the video. I'm still not going to buy an iPad for now but it's looking like there are more reasons to do so. I was doing that (clicking the old embedded code box)- honestly! It just wasn't working for me this morning. I must admit that the jury here is also still out a bit on the purchase of an iPad. I've also been lusting over the Asus EP121 (yes- with Windows 7- but I quite like W7 ), but then again, it's too much money, and it's almost the same amount of money as a better quality Macbook Pro (which I could also load Windows onto anyway). Perhaps Stalinist communism wasn't such a bad idea after all?- you know, we have only one computer, and that's the ONLY computer money will ever buy us?! It would make life so less complicated!

It was grim in London, a few pubs had flags outside and I saw somebody wearing a shamrock hat but apart from that you would not have know it was paddies day. Wish I had been in Liverpool for that the party is always great we have a great Irish community.

@honoluludesktop said: work of the world's great(est) photographer, Ed Weston There are so many great photographers that I couldn't add the (est) suffix to anyone. Another I love is Josef Sudek: [image: josef-sudek.jpg] [image: sudek-egg.jpg]

The logo reminds me of the remote camera lens on the alien craft in the early movie production of "War of the Worlds".

I got a 6/6 . differences are in details

Curious that Color blind is for people who confuse and transform some colors, because there is also people who see colors in B & W !

Matte, I hope your fever has come down. Here's a quickie for the process I used to create the gradient. The pros probably know a better way but this works. The table is Christian Becksvoort's classic Shaker table. In this example I am just using exports direct from SU. One is textured with lines turned off and the other is Hidden Line using my Pencil MP1 style. Both images were exported at 3000 pixels wide because I wanted the pencil lines to be thin and light. [image: 5539777800_4e4981f295.jpg] Textured export [image: 5539198313_b92d1441f9.jpg] Hidden Line I used Photoshop Express but I guess the process would be similar in any image editor. I opened both images. In the textured one, I created an additional layer I called Lines and then copied and pasted the hidden line image to that layer. I put the textured layer on top. I could have copied the textured image to a new layer in the hidden line image and eliminated the step of rearranging layers but that's not a big deal. [image: 5539198377_b37d27166a.jpg] Layers Then I selected the Gradient tool and set it to go from transparent to white and made sure Transparency was selected. I used a linear gradient for this but there are other options. [image: 5539219095_2a8a0373f0.jpg] Gradient settings Then it was a simple matter of clicking and dragging to indicate where the gradient would be. The shorter the line, the steeper the gradient--the more quickly the image blends from one to the other. I played with different angles and directions to find something suitable. [image: 5539198559_228559ecaf.jpg] Christian Becksvoort's Shaker Classic textured and in pencil

@stilteg said: You should give some more details in what skills you are interested about, the universe in which you are planning your modelling etc... i am looking for those skilled in developing interior and exterior models of buildings anything from apartments to diners.though a bit into the story alot of the setting will take place in the the rocky mountains of colorado.... my current computer doesnt have the specs to design with a high level of detail and with alot of 3d models already in the 3d warehouse, there are very few projects that i would like help with... the universe in which my story takess place is the same of our own, only it will change quite drasticly in the near future. my story will have drama, alot of action and some science fiction elements i am very proud of my story and am soon gonna file for Copyrights. i am dead serious about completing this project as it is part of my lifes ambition.

Nah its not that its just only a small percentages of my drive is important, maybe 20gb the rest can ne easily replaced.

I'll be there!

They are often also on youtube, usefull for embedding: [flash=480,360:1k4il5zc]http://www.youtube.com/v/RE4ce4mexrU[/flash:1k4il5zc] or for changing the start time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4ce4mexrU**&t=3m09s**

I agree, they must approach it like a kitchen fitter - all preplanned and mapped out Now they're on Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/15/curvy-wood-floors-us.html