@mike amos said: absolutely refute the right of anyone to state that the love of one person for another comes from a deity You do not have to believe it to love anyone. What if your whole existence is a manifestation of Love, in your unique, completely free way? I know that my love to my wife is a ray of the light/love I have seen. I simply felt it one day and still feel it in a way. I do not find it intimidating. I simply know that there is something I still have to learn. My experience tells me that the love is a foundation of everything that exists and to truly fulfil myself as a human being, I have to follow what Love invites me to do. So it is more like flowing with my deepest dreams then being a "puppet of a deity". Love doesn't work this way. We all are Gods, "sons of the Highest."

So that's SU on the screen. When do they stop talking and start drawing?

excellent

I just figured how to do this too! I tried draping a road onto a terrain and tried exporting to google earth.... anyone know why the road didn't show up? I also had drawn a 3d bridge which seemed to make it through the transfer but no roads.

Really incredible what can be done with this tool. I miss some links to architectural projects though, -partially or completely done with SU. Nick Sonder is one good example. What about bigger projects, - anyone?

Hi Pilou, Thanks for this. It certainly is an optimistic view of the world. As an architect I've grown more and more skeptical of clients with these enormous budgets and sense of entitlement! If everyone does their part it's surely attainable - I'm from Africa by the way...

Great resource Bryan. Thanks for finding it and spreading the word.

Yeah. . .this so elegant and beautiful I used to work with ol' crow quill pen and India Ink. I always blotched my drawings! So I went to Rapidograph (there's a blast from the past!) of course they were always cloggy and cantankerous. then My water color washes were never as good as his. I can't believe he didn't tape his ground down to a board! dont' even get me started on airbrushes! So . ..with the Whiz bang 'puter photoshop thing. .. I have an "Undo!" key.

My work, and a series of factors in my personal life, has veered me away from SketchUp and the forum for over a year now. But I am starting to ease back into it.

@boofredlay said: Yesterday I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow at Wal-Mart for Lizzie, our wonderful yellow lab dog and was standing in line about to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. First thing I thought was "where is your sign and white cane, lady" but decided to go with it...SO....on impulse, I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Weight Loss Diet again. I said I probably shouldn't, because I'd ended up in the hospital the last time; but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet; and that the way that it works is that you load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete... so I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story to say the least. Totally horrified, the lady asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food had poisoned me. I told her no; I had stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's aRsE and a car hit us both. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack since he was laughing so hard. Wal-Mart has asked me not to shop there anymore.... The version I know ends this way.-: Were you poisoned by the dog food to get to hospital? No. I was sitting in the road washing my ball5 and got run over.

Excellent! Loved it! Another good find! Thank you for posting that. It made me smile.

I might be that rare exception, but I like a bright UI. However, having other options would certainly be nice for everyone.

Interesting find. Helpful basics for MSPhysics animations...

Funny it's seems very similar with this free old one true gem! (Mac UI for PC) Anim8Or (first version July 1999) The Manual is very clear! [image: http://www.anim8or.com/learn/manual/images/screen_object_edit.jpg] Woks like a charm on Windows 10 ! (program file zip is something like 1.1 mega! Unzipped 2.5 megas! [image: anim.jpg]

@rich o brien said: I do something similar in Blender as tests.... [attachment=0:mnnoo7kk]<!-- ia0 -->genome.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:mnnoo7kk] It can animate displacement so you get pretty crazy results. Yep thats the one, nice, I didnt know you could so particle displacement in Blender but then again what cant Blender do! If I wasn't such an idiot I would hopefully like to learn that, I am still stuck in the 2D realm of software with the exception of sketchup!

With the level of connectivity in current and future cars I am glad mine is analogue. I agree there are huge benefits but the potential for intrusion is huge and I am not sure there is a truly SAFE car with the level of connectivity required by self drive cars.

@kaas said: @Mike - Seen this review? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7S5lXw7zk Thanks, kaas, a good review. I wasn't too sure about that flashy trackpad. Its location puts me off. I prefer a central trackpad, ideally to the left of the lower keyboard. Still looking forward to seeing what Apple come up with later in the year. In the meantime, I'd buy an external graphics card set up if it worked seamlessly on the Mac.

I like Blue vs Red (Or red Vs Blue). That is a funny show! What are you into now?

Thanks for the spot, have signed up to that.

It could the https certificate getting flagged. Norton is extremely sensitive and flags the most redundant things.