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

Hey Coen, quite a "lively" avatar you have there, not like the other guy's ..and of course Edit: now he changed it...

Great to hear you're all ok! @unknownuser said: Mustang did fine. It's still disassembled in the garage. I was kind hoping it would blow away. LOL, insurance job eh? "Well, it was definitely in one piece before the hurricane..."

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I was going over some plans with a contractor who was pricing a project. When he saw REFLECTED CEILING PLAN he thought it meant the ceiling was finished with mirrors.

@remus said: I think old school is the term im looking for. Quite amazing to think that anyone of us could probably do something of a similar quality in half the time, though. ...More like a step in the evolutionary process.

Ah it all becomes clear. It was the joining dates that confused me.