i wonder how long it took to get to 126mph? 126 minutes maybe?

Yeah , i realised that but felt that there were some good hidden gems in there for textures, lighting, polygonal techniques etc. Especially from a beginners POV, who's trying to find out more with regards understanding rendering and its application

the image search is definitely an improvement over google.. haven't used it enough to feel out any real pos/negs.. mac users will need something like: http://www.machangout.com/ ..in order to get bing (or other) as your default engine in safari because only google is built in..

http://designer-info.com/Writing/sketchup_3.htm http://designer-info.com/Writing/sketchup_4.htm

That is good news! Thanks for sharing Mike. I will be sure to show the article to my kids.

I saw a model, at a degree show, which had the people, trees etc printed onto clear acetate and placed in the model. It seemed to work well particularly for knots of people, hedges etc

@jim said: I don't want all my software integrated so tightly. I wouldn't mind if it meant that their software was more stable as a result, but it's far from. As for Google's new homepage's image search options...

@unknownuser said: I need texturers, riggers, and animators, I also need people skilled in Blender. and modellers apparently, don't need much then

You can easily convert DWG to DXF and back with EveryDWG, a freeware app: http://www.opendwg.org/guestfiles It's for Windows but runs over WINE on Ubuntu, so perhaps you can make it run on OSX. Hey, we should start a thread called: "Software alternatives".

Totally OT (sorry!), but this one's heaps of fun: http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Interactive-Portfolio/dp/0762419350/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255032881&sr=8-17

Glenn, I think the only time limit would be if you wait until Version 8 comes out. then it'll probably be too late to upgrade to 7.1.

Yes, I agree that the majority of people in Ireland are under the impression that a 'yes' vote will continue the gravy train or at least the 'bail out' Euros'. I feel they will be in for a very rude awakening in the not too distant future. Some months ago I read a very interesting article which debunked the Irish 'gravy train' suggestion. While Ireland did gain billions from the EU for infrastructure, roads, ports etc, we also gave away our fishing rights, (the largest in Europe) for the quick buck! The Polititians that did this should be shot! I would have much preferred if our idiot politicians had the foresight to see that we could have developed this industry to its maximum instead of relying on the likes of Dell, Intel etc etc that are really only here for the tax breaks and low wages of 10 years ago. The only problem now is that similar tax breaks and much lower labour cost is available in the newly joined EU countries, Poland etc. Still the up side is that I think Ireland is now starting to SEE that we have to build on what we have, Fisheries (hope we take them back), Green Food Production, Wind and Wave Power and not to forget Tourism. However it will take at least 10 years plus before we will see these industries being fully developed. Mike

As of last week, Native Client has been integrated into Chrome. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I think it will run .exe applications in Chrome (on Windows, at least.)

@stefanq said: Another gorgeous image, another Russian user.....it must be something in the air there, I think....I wonder what http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4076/final0000.jpg Edit: the guy is from Ukraine Shame it's a horrible bedroom haha looks like someone's death bed

Lets hope, it won't get 'shut down order' as Green Power Inc of Pasco, Washington. http://pesn.com/2009/08/07/9501560_CEO_appealing_GreenPowerInc_shut-down_order/

You want more? Try the tore

There are several free recovery software available.

This might work but I don't think Sketchup is really an uprez utility - try the open source SmillaEnlarger ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageenlarger/ ) instead - or if you're made of money, Genuine Fractals. Regards - Martin

@arail1 said: Thanks Jeff. 10.5 will still be a good upgrade for him. I have lots of machines at my desk and at home and one of my test machines is a Powerbook G4 laptop running 10.4 Tiger. Sometimes I'll test something on that computer and forget to switch back over to a primary machine! Raw computing power aside, it works fantastically. I think you'll be very happy with Leopard on a PPC G4.