This might be useful later on, but for now I'll be with you and look for some members to see how it works out. 50G sure is a lot to me

@tig said: there's Northumbria [Northumberland and Durham] [chez moi] - one of England's best kept secrets - with world-heritage-sites, history, fine-coasts, forests, dramatic-moors, night-life etc etc Totally agree, my favourite part of the UK. I am infact having my stag party in Northumberland (it's not a stag in the traditional sense - lots of walking, battlefield tours and real ale pubs etc). There is of course Holy Island too, one of the most amazing places I have ever been to. You could do a lot worse than visiting my home town of York too - steeped in history, from Roman, Viking, Norman, Medieval and right up to the present day. The Minster is mightily impressive and there are other hidden gems too. You;re also only an hour away from the Yorkshire Dales and Yorkshire Moors.

Bravo! If that came in second.........first place must have been very good!

Short bio and interview with Alex Roman with a few more images: http://area.autodesk.com/inhouse/bts/publications_by_alex_roman

@jeremy nicholls said: Oh, THAT Coke. not asking...

Try Canada, well before global warming hit at least.

Really, I can hardly play a racing game and try to talk in the chat at the same time, now people think its easier to text and drive! Right next to the cell phone talking-I can't even use those fancy headsets while playing the same video game! what kind of person am I?

I say just blur or photoshop those ads out. Simple, easy and cheap!

Yeah, I'll do it when I get home tonight. For the most part it seemed to work and now the songs are organized how I think is most logical for me. It was not, however, an entirely logical process to figure it out. So give me a few hours and I'll post it tonight PST. Chris

Would these books be sufficient? (I couldn't find a US version) http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Building-Pocket-Book-Second/dp/0750680156/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263501863&sr=8-5 http://www.amazon.com/Architects-Pocket-Third-Charlotte-Baden-Powell/dp/0750686170/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263501863&sr=8-3 Surprising that there weren't any reviews of the books.

Ward, I see them in FF OK. (FF 3.5.7 on a Mac) Chris

Thanks to everyone who responded. The head of our association's insurance company finally responded to my query and they will insure a mass concrete insulated cavity wall.

Cheetah 3D can do this as well, sorry, MAC only, though. Cheers, Chuck

Kinda hypnotic!

@tfdesign said: I don't know about Pro- but I'm guessing it's the same? [image: ERsH_MM1_RR_test.jpg] [image: 8cp8_detail.jpg] QT Pro is well worth getting for full screen playback of almost anything, even if you don't use it with SU. Also just did this test, took 4 mins to export this file out of SU, it's un-rendered ( or more correctly it's only SU rendered) I've been having a play with LightUp (which exports AVI's), but my trial has runout before I managed to try an animated sequence, but it's worth a look before spending big bucks. Could you start a new thread with exactly what your trying to achieve, and maybe a sample file, as I'm sure there are SU/Mac users who have found a solution or combo. I've been working on animations of engineering product designs (as a secondary goal, to 3D printable SU drawings), but have tried out quite a lot of things in the process that may suit your needs if not mine. Outside of SU, I like bits of SharkFX, SolidThinking and the RhinoWanacheeBeta, but there not SU which overall I prefer. john

You may not think you will at present but once a dog has become part of the family (pack) its very difficult to get by without a four legged member. Good to hear Cesar's book is in German. You will enjoy it as there is a lot to be learned from it. What I have learned and has stuck to date is that dogs see us though there noses before there eyes. And they learn about us though our 'energy' firstly. Dogs CANNOT be tricked or fooled. The best thing about them is that they DO keep us 'grounded' and in touch with nature if we let them.

I'll second the Shapeways option, interesting business model, but tricky to navigate site, they have an API available that needs a guru like yourself to package for us SU minions. I've been looking for a 'water-tightness' ruby that passes there upload criteria, it seems a bit hit and miss at the moment (not just with SU models) this hard to find page is worth a look http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/design_rules_for_3d_printing john

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@tig said: Here's a message in my native tongue t="";[65,32,72,97,112,112,121,32,78,101,119,32,89,101,97,114,32,116,111,32,111,110,101,32,97,110,100,32,97,108,108,46].each{|e|t=t+e.chr};UI.messagebox(t) Simply copy and paste the line of code into the Ruby Console + <enter> to read it... It was amazing TIG

Eric, that was Lena who did that. I know her husband Ole and he is a patient man.