It wasn't that long ago but nearly. Cracked me up.

A couple of noteworthy things came to my attention today. The first relates to what is happening in my neck of the woods. When future generations of Irish were put into economic slavery by our cowardly elected political class to prop up the banksters around Europe the IMF set out requirements with regards to what happens with the country's assets. It now looks that these assets are being no sold off at bargain prices to the actual banksters that the populous propped up in the first place! It has happened in Greece and is now happening in Ireland. Next I imagine will be Portugal, Spain, Italy etc etc. Its mind boggling to say the least. However it looks that many folks here are actually now understanding what is taking place in spite of little or no reporting by the so called nation media and getting quite pissed off. We have local and EU elections coming up on the 23rd May and it will be interesting to see which way the general vote goes. I have a feeling that the government parties that got the country into the mess in the first place and the shower that is currently playing along with the banksters will find out that they are not that popular any longer. I expect to see a huge swing to the 'left'. What happens after that will be interesting! On the international front it looks like Russia is now continuing with the chess game! 'Russia strives to exclude the dollar from energy trading' http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_05_13/Russia-strives-to-exclude-the-dollar-from-energy-trading-5138/ This 'move' is little reported in the western media. From what I understood it would have taken years for Russia to organise a system to lessen the Petro Dollars influence but maybe it about to happen. As long as all sides (USA, EU, BRICKS) keep playing the chess game I am not too concerned as the 'man on the street' gets along which or ever. If it turns into something more than chess, that is a different matter.

There is a saying "be the change you want to see". If we all took the approach of not working for corporations with which we have moral issue, and the greater community took this same attitude toward patronage - we would see change overnight!

Unfortunately Nick, your going to have to write a book on your process. Please We are all waiting....

Stunning Frenchy!

when it comes to that Ken, windows has a highly customizable calculator built in. [image: wMPB_Calc.jpg]

Thank you Richard, another great idea to put in the toolbox, and you've invented the flatpack model too! I'm starting to travel my ideas around and this should be useful

WhAts even more interesting is that the use of the coin as a spy tool is based off fact and that there are still coins in circulation today that spies lost.

Some standard options in native SketchUp: moving an edge (p) along its own direction over a certain inputted distance or by grabbing any of its point, even one of its endpoints or midpoint ....towards its intersection with the plane of a face (F) (grabbed point will then be in plane of (F)). moving an edge along any (s) edge's direction over a certain inputted distance or towards the chosen plane perpendicular to (s). The plane is perpendicular to (s) and uses any inference point to determine this plane. extending an edge along its own direction (by grabbing an one of its endpoints) over a certain inputted distance or towards (p)'s intersection with the plane of any face or. (grabbed endpoint will then be in plane of (F))

Links to download and Sketchup plugin please... I toke a look , but it was not clear

@mitcorb said: I thought I heard the guy say that Vray was the renderer? Yeah their logo is displayed on the opening credits. Man I'm freakin scared to watch this movie!

Yes, I used to draw those for tank and pipe inspection. SketchUp can help you... Only problem I see is that you'll probably want to be drawing in scale from the start and sketchup draws in a real sized universe. So you'll have to scale yourself or use your edraw software to scale it.

@cotty said: Is there a statistic for the PluginStore like this? At the moment only plugin authors has access to the download stats for their plugins in a monthly resolution. We might display some data publicly in the near future. Thank you for the idea.

Already had Flux, but Heavy hand is a new one for me. thanks.

Bass Pro paid $1 pbf for the reclaimed we used on some of their stores. They sent people around the country looking for old barns and would then tear them down and send the wood to a local cabinet shop for reworking. This was in 2004. I might add that it's dangerous stuff to work with. planing it, and cutting it you would hit nails, screws, buckshot and bullets.

Weirdly, when I stayed in rural France a good few years back Cannabis plants were widespread in the hedgerows. It seems the local hippy commune had spent some weeks driving around throwing paper bags of soil and seeds into the roadside areas In order to give them an untraceable supply Not that I would of course condone any such criminal behavior

Like it! The dark page buttons and red on blue buttons are the only thing I find not great.

Very true. Thanks. I have to share it.

Alan has a great point about DMCA requests.... They might not always work or they maky take some time but it just might do the trick. https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?hl=en

I posted about this before. I'm hoping the first production run is this Spring and that it works as advertised. Much as I still depend on the 'old tape measure' and digital tape measures and such, getting the basic data of a whole room(s) with a scan would be an immense time saver for me. http://structure.io/