Although not of the same caliber or this guy's art, before LayOut I did all my designing, plan presentation and even elevations with MS WORD, every single line! Even the little isometric view on the bottom of the Balmoral page! [image: gj9V_Pages-from-THE-LINFIELD-VERSION-1.0_Page_2.jpg] [image: vO4z_THE-AVALON-VERSION-1.2_Page_05.jpg] [image: fRbh_Pages-from-THE-BALMORAL-VERSION-2.0-2.jpg]

@krisidious said: Good, Fast and Cheap... pick any two. [image: good-cheap-fast-service.jpg]

I'm surprised nobody has suggested a pen tablet. I used to suffer from RSI and found that by using the mouse (for scrolling mainly) with the left hand and the pen and (Wacom) tablet with the right hand the problem went away. The pen is sooo easy and natural to use. David

@tig said: I worked with Tasmania Uni on 'SuperSlob'. It creates CNC cut interlocking ply panels for buildings, exhibition-stands, furniture etc in SUp... I did the SUp Ruby panel-maker, detailer and CNC stuff... [aka: 'Castle'] http://anzasca.net/2012papers/papers/p33.pdf http://www.design-island.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Castle_DMTbrochure.pdf Now that is some extremely efficient use of space...

hi majid take a look at the SketchUp Discussion forum , you will be really impressed about plugins and toolbars : http://sketchucation.com./forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=52580

@krisidious said: The raise in price didn't come in @ 8 Pro? I thought it did. I only know the Euro-prices, but if i remember correctly, the price has been increased 2 times since Trimble bought it (at least the Euro-price) last year from 319€ to 332,80€ and now to 398€ + 77€/year = 475€ ...+48,9%!!! and if you compare it with the previous update cycle of maybe two years it is even 77€ more = 552€ which is 73% more than before!!!

bigBANG

Amazing. I love it. Thank you Pilou, always excellent posts! Under "Le fantôme de la liberté" (Bunuel's 1974 film) everything is possible.

Thanks for the input! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goq76CQapyI

Thanks Alan. appreciate it!

@tomasz said: The question was: is the community mature enough to start a "kicksrater" for a new architectural modeling/drafting software? How much would it cost to get an initial version? There was Octree architectural modeler ... . Hi tomasz , maybe we will reach a day when we will become independent from Companies but as it seems , and you are right , few people here want to hear about it yet Time to Time It must be ? a question of patience and resistence to prove that it is the future path to follow if things keep turning as they do now get a drink Cheers

that's really kool. super greeble.

I've not had much contact with ATT in the past, but we had the exact same thing a few years ago where U-Verse was installed locally, so we upgraded. It was cheaper than my old DSL and significantly faster. Its not true fiber optics - at least not here. Its fiber optics to their switching station or whatever its called, then its like DSL to the house or something. So it is not nearly as fast as unthrottled fiber optics. Its more like a great DSL connection. Its not even as fast as cable. But it is 1/2 the price of cable, and I hate cable a lot. Anyhow, we've been using it for a few years here and we've enjoyed it. Chris

hmmm looks like a hill to me. In the comments one response was: "This is just another case of white man greed" I bet the opposition to the project could be paid enough to change their opinion....no matter what their race was.

she borrowed his centre of gravity plugin I find this guy just as impressive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0iNTlIuY1c

TIGs OBJ exporter works perfectly, checked and re checked. I can export complicated scenes into blender/cycles for rendering. Blender now supports collada (the new fixed version I mean). So, I can import export in SU without issues. 3ds importer is also workable though the limitations (64k faces for single mesh, 8digit names for textures) This last is broken on all OSX free SU 8, works well in SU7 free. But, as long SU keeps exporting ridiculous geometry, giving no control to the user on this matter, who really cares? I started using blender as an assist app to SU. UV editor, organic modeling. Then, after cycles render engine implementation and the new blender UI, I started using SU as an assist to blender, importing there. Meanwhile, I learned blender, new great tools similar to SU and much more advanced came. So, you see my point

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@chris fullmer said: Wow that is great news Tina! Congratulations and thanks for sharing! Chris PS I'm not sure who will be there, but I'm sure there will be a few members of the SU team at the Denver AIA. Chris, I hope to see you at the ASAI conference. Maybe you can make it to a couple of the sketch tours.

Thank you, nice video. Clash of the titans, the medusa, is one of my favorites. Just compare it to the remake...

A typo. I meant to write 'I was waiting for Marielle to knock out one of Martin's teeth' Maybe a Freudian slip