answer: java wasn't updated when Sitebuilder was installed. The latest of both programs was downloade, then the old versions removed, and Java was reinstalled prior to Sitebuilder being reinstalled. Works fine. Revit is next....

Eddy We are located in the Dallas area and been building for the last 5 years, things started going south last year when an investor of ours tried to micro manage a project and ended stealing his own progress draws to finance another project which forced us to take him to arbitration, the knock we took was heavy and forced us to scale our operation down significantly, currently we are focused on high end kitchens/bathrooms, design and consultation. I hope to get things going again later in the year and am currently bidding on a few projects north of Dallas.

.... my sketchup experiment... [image: 112cgt.jpg] 112a.skp

Brodie, as others pointed out it's important to establish the rules beforehand, especially who pays you. It's not unusual for an architect to pay consultants after they've billed the client for the services, but if there is a billing dispute between the client and the architect, you don't want to be left out in the rain. If the architect hired you, then he should agree to reimbursing you within a set time.

Sorry to rain on the parade, but Rebus has been around for ages, they don't support any SU render plugins and besides, their initial file setup costs are too high to be useful for anything other than rendering commercial animations. Full list of software they support: **Autodesk 3ds Max Vray - Mental Ray - finalRender - Maxwell Render - Vue xStream - Brazil r/s - scanline - Maxon Cinema 4D Vray - Advanced Render - finalRender - Maxwell Render - Vue xStream - Standard Render - Autodesk Maya Mental Ray - finalRender - Maxwell Render - Vue xStream - Software Render - Softimage XSI Mental Ray - Vue xStream - Maxwell Render - Luxology modo Standard Render - Newtek Lightwave 3D Maxwell Render - Vue xStream - Standard Render - Blender 3D Standard Render - YafRay - Standalone Software Mental Ray - Maxwell Render - Vue Infinite -**

Thanks Alan

And of course, representatives of any other trade like to see themselves in a similar light. Only difference may be that they make smaller things which not necessarily obtrude in others sights unavoidably.

Try this with your children solo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4 I use it with my students, makes them think about how much notice they take of the world around

I don't see anything out of the ordinary in that GE image. And, what makes you think that Beale AFB is the home of "Aurora"? A comment like this is a little bit off the wall.

There are musicians who are beginning to work in this method. They tell people they are ready to make an album, then get finincial backing beforehand from fans, then make the album and give it away for free, or mostly free, or a free version and a pay version with extra insights to the process, etc. I like the idea Jim. I don't know where you would go to start something like that. It would be cool if it worked, Chris

Ah, thank you mitcorb, and toxicvoxel. Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for! So basically its an easier way to change something once you've drawn it...its easy to see why they brag about that.

Well the thing was, they weren't working in the sketchup explorer or your explorer until I updated sketchup.

Thank you very much, you've answered all my questions!!!

The technology is coming ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8197449.stm http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/index.html

I have a wireless keyboard/mouse nearby - Think it might be RF, not 100% sure about the frequency. But adjusting the antenna and changing the channel seemed to have worked so far. (There was at least 3-4 on the same channel.)

As I understand it they are themselves planted in the ground, so unless they die of disease they'll never rot. Although simple, it is a very intriguing idea- I wonder what it's limitations would be? Would it be possible for example to use such living structures as the primary structure for genuinely habitable buildings, suspending tensile mebranes beneath them or other forms of climate control barriers?

I've just read the "release blog post" (or what) about it. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/08/help-test-some-next-generation.html Will see. A Google Webmaster help Guide commented the speed however; @unknownuser said: I wouldn't look at the speed. Servers are always a bit faster when hardly anyone is using them

Neat. For those of us (like me) who have no idea what Bullwer-Lytton is: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

I thought it would be a great toy for my cats - keep them occupied for hours

The Library of Congress' Historic American Buildings Survey on-line records: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ There's a mix of computer and hand drawn documents, as well as photographs. For instance, if you do a search on Greene & Greene, the first result (Gamble House) has hand drawn pland and elevations fully dimensioned and annotated.