Ross that is a great resource, thank you. Down 12 lbs now!

I'm not a professional woodworker myself but I can see some differences between an Altendorf F45 and a Sawstop. 1 size 2 weight 3 price but 4 the sawstop is much safer. For the little woodwork that I do my DIY saw mounted under a DIY table is more than enough. And I can tell you, every time I turn it on, it scares me. I keep my distance from the blade!

Hi Tony, welcoma aboard! @unknownuser said: "(insert something witty here...)" No, just a name (Tony will make it) for us all not to have to call you all the time "Tkessler"

Nice work. Very nice. I like all of the results shown at the SketchCrawl forum too. I really wish I could draw like that. It's been so long. Hacking off your arm may give you that tortured artist angle. Before you feed it to the werewolves, sketch it. Heck . . . look what it did for Van Gogh!

Shaun, that's a Yellowfin Tuna. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowfin_tuna I just looked online and found a current world record of 311 pounds. Wow. That was caught with a spear gun. Now that's a manly way to catch a fish.

You're all welcome to quote those lyrics, but for all honesty and for the youngsters in this forum I have to thank Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel for laying the foundations. poster-Maggy

I have no idea how it works, Ross. I assume it record the raw number of returns on a given search. You can search for "night" and "day" and get a response. It's not scientific by any means.

I use the H.264 codec almost exclusively. Excellent quality with decent file sizes, though a highly textured 364 acre development, 1024 x 768, 8 minutes long is 2.4 Gigs. And that is with 2D trees (2000 of them)

Yes, Coen, I figured that out, thanks. It's just about my home town in my user account anyway (the flash part can handle other characters).

@mark leichliter said: WIP: Work In Progress. Thanks for clearing that up. I was worried: "Weapons of Immense Potency" "Wampas of Incalculable Pustulence" (that's a Star Wars reference) "Wonky Infantile Politics" "Wimpy Insecurity Plug" "Wonderful Institution Pulverized" "Wombats Insufferably Proliferating" "Wildly Intersecting Proclivities" "Wearisome Indigestible Protazoans" I was really hoping it wasn't "Worrisome Insect Proboscis" because that would imply that I had absolutely no grip on what this or any other SketchUp forum was about. --Lewis poster-Lewis Wadsworth

Waaaah! This is pretty heavy metaphysical stuff! 'There is no Google' Coen you have obviously been reading Richard Dawkins' book 'The Google Delusion'

Martin, wait, Didier clone several! Happy birthday!

And it also warns you (even if you don't visit that particular website from where it is originally) that there are unread news (I think with a small, yellor star).

Thanks John. That was interesting. I'd bet William doesn't snore. Regards, Ross

@unknownuser said: Oh c'mon guys. Pencils in the Corner Bar? I'll gladly add a pencil to the Murphy, but don't you guys know how to chill out from work? ... um, I am at work.

well, to me... seeing that I am one... I aspire to be professional in a lot of ways... but aboveall... no pun intended, originality and giving credit to others work, not taking it for your own, contributing new knowledge to the industry... so many 3D artists in the gaming world and rendering world use other peoples models, and then take credit for it... normally from one program to another... if you frequented 3DMax forums you could use their models, convert them, paint them, and so on... and then take credit for it, and the chances of anyone knowing are slim... this happened to me while building a racing simulator... I Can't say who I worked for, I had to sign NDA's but EA's SIM Racing and rFactor we're involved... and there were lawsuits flying... all over who's model was whose... and how they went about proving it was interesting... anyway I digress... I think a Pro is someone who brings something to the table...

@gaieus said: This guy is awsome! He decided to reconstruct the city centre of the ancient Rome. Have a look at this thread here from the "Old Forums"! Pretty darn nice work. I wonder how long it took him to build it. That was a joke.

Well I'm glad to hear you are not microwaving rats [But if you do the pigeons, you will probably need to finish them off under a grill.] This is interesting though ..maybe they could survive a nukrear [GWB spelling] war. They might be the only thing left.....and one day evolve into....yes you guessed it.....Mothmen

Thanks Maggy, than it seems that it's not only me who doesn't like the illustration. As for your example - we are often asked by journalists to "act" like if we were just finding the things but whenever I can I try to avoid these situations. Still I also know some "media-archaeologists" (as we call them ) who love always being in the focus...

I'm glad everyone's enjoying Thor's models. I wonder why he calls himself the "original moron" and his website "Moron Studios"? To my architect's eyes, his designs for aircraft and spacecraft seem strikingly original...not moronic at all. Just today that program AC3D came up in a discussion I was having with Diego Matho at the Boston Architectural College about next fall's SketchUp classes (which I have agreed to teach again)...it's odd that Diego should have become aware of it at the same time as I did. It's my understanding that AC3D has been out there for nearly a decade, but that the developer has recently extended its capabilities. I've been reading the manual, and the clear interface with which one creates organic (subsurface-smoothed) objects from blocky faceted ones is something Google should emulate for SketchUp (assuming, that is, that Google continues developing SketchUp). AC3D also has a very nice built-in mechanism for reducing mesh object polygon count. Incidentally, although it is available on all OS right now, on the Linux platform AC3D is about the closest thing to SketchUp, as far as I can tell. I could wish it had better snaps/inferences, but at least it has some, which makes it almost unique among the Linux-friendly modelers that I have evaluated. --Lewis poster-Lewis Wadsworth