Patent drawings are not for the faint of heart. I did some a while back (in my cad days) and lost my a$$ on the job. They are very specific on the style, paper, text (font), etc. The drawings actually took me far longer than expected (came back 8-10 times and not due to anything other than not "looking" they way they wanted them). They may not even tell you what needs to be corrected (they say you need to know). I learned that I will not be doing patent drawings again anytime soon. A few pieces of advice...do you homework. Get ahold of the patent office you will be submitting to and see if they have a book of standards they want you to follow. Bid the job about twice as much as you think (you will be revising it many times for the smallest of corrections). Good luck. Scott

One can excuse ignorance or naivety. What one cannot excuse is the sheer arrogance it takes to foist that ignorance on a superpower and thereby the rest of the world. I think Stinkie has a point. If this tragi-comic double act were to get into power, the rest of the developed world would have to seriously reappraise the status of the US and their dealings with it. It would be as if some gauche teen had just walked onto the international stage.

@solo said: Lets take my furniture 'designs' I did recently, they were not done with an intention to be manufactured but rather to explore the new tools in SU, I did not have any parameters or rules to conform to and thus I was not restricted. So besides the artistic intention behind them they are useless? Could they not serve as inspiration for a workable product? In my opinion design should be with the aim of bringing something in to the world. Anything less than that is coming up with ideas, they are nothing more than that unless they are then made in to something real. Your chairs are not useless because of this, though. As you said they could serve as the inspiration for a great piece of furniture, but then anything can be serve as inspiration, there is a lot between being inspired and then making a real product. @unknownuser said: is artistic design not the foundation of great architecture? I dont know enough about architecture to comment, but an often lauded phrase in the industrial design world comes to mind "form follows function."

Too slow: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=6542&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30#p87818 It is a good app though. im looking forward to the day when it is better integrated and has more commands. Even in its current state it still speeds things up a lot.

hmmm... What format does it import?

Yes - give my congrats to Brittany for kick'n ass! Also please advise her that I believe she is really your younger sister. You two have a strong family resemblance. Even if you weren't aware of it, you must actually share at least one parent. That time dear ol' dad said he was going away on business -- well I now know what funny business he was up to! Regards, Ross

At least they've mastered the use of the apostrophe. Its a pity they cant grasp all those other little things like common sense, and moral decncy while theyre at it.

It's always nice to hear a positive cancer story... Very happy for you and yoru family 3eighty!!!

This is a common question on the forum. The stock answer tends to be something like; It is impossible to answer as pricing depends very much on the demand for your skills and the value of the dollar/pound/euro and other economic factors in the area that you are working. My opinion is that the only common denominator is the fact that you have to make enough money to live on. If a client is offering you a one-off job, the rate for that should be at a premium, as opposed to a client that has an ongoing stream of work that will keep you busy for some time.

I too am burdoned with the cursed tax return.

Is it called Laika by any chance?

yes. Those old versions, 2 and 3, are to be kept as remembrances of how SketchUp grew. @unknownuser said: Most confindent for me is number 4 for there there Is the ruby. The path gone from there on has lead us to our present confused situation. 5 and 6 lack of interest and are, much more the version 6, full of distractions. (my opinion)

I've had a look and i think it'll make quick design to model a proper quick option

i agree a dream come true, i think the worst thing i could have done going into architectural 3d was start with sketchup, its ease of use and intuitive navigation has spoiled me for any other 3d apps, the huge leap to learning C4D/max just seems too much to fit into my schedule, friends of mine who work in Max and see me work in Sketchup have said that the makers of Max could learn something from sketchup and for a long time ive wished for mixture of max and SU, this [Bonzia3d] seems to be that combo, a quote from the website: "...and then be able to advance to the next level of detailed solid modeling" that next level is all im after, however i agree with Biebel that it had better support external Renderers ie Vray otherwise i wont be too impressed... another quote: "...can be smoothly rendered, animated..." so maybe it wont be so bad. i for one look forward to trying it.

@jcdb said: The first AutoCad version I used was Rel.9 DOS. Before that I used VersaCad. Many moons ago. Version 2.5 was the first for me, back in 1986. I was brought an IBM AT in one box, a card with some additional memory in another, a monitor in a third, and ACAD on floppies in the fourth box. I had only used a word processor before. Training? No money for that. First I had to figure out how to install the OS on the enormous 40 Mb harddrive... Anssi

OMG! Not the kind of news you want to see on Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day!

I love that model! It used to be on @last's homepage and their gallery 5 years ago; I always wished the author would have posted it somewhere. It'd be great to give it the SketchyPhysics treatment. Thanks for the link.

@solo said: .. using this technology to create a virual portfolio "virual"? Is thats a virtual viral portfolio or viral virtual portfolio?

This is an awesome way to rearrange your home without getting your hands dirty. One of the first things i did in Su was model my apartment and all my furniture. Then i rearranged everything in SU. Its nice to use the position camera feature to see exactly how it would look from say your front door, or standing in your kitchen. you can even set the position camera tool to your exact height.

OK I can answer you For the example with some objects above that was fluid but more you add objects and material more that becomes slowdown Shadows are possible but only projected on the ground not between objects or auto shadows! That's real time