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@box said: Sounds like you need Bezier Spline http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=13563 and curve maker is another good one. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=35614 I have Bezier spline but I think curve maker is more on the lines of what I was looking for thank alot!

You need to copy the petal off by 1mm then reverse its face... then all is well... there is only one petal so editing is quiet quick...test_hibiscus.skp[image: TVc4_test_hibiscus1.PNG] [image: Y6SQ_test_hibiscus.PNG]

Check out ThomThom's 'Cleanup' and 'Plan Tools' plugins. I think they would help for this.

Yes, you'll get 8hrs evaluation time. At the end of 8hrs the Pro reverts to free.

zetavares852 I do think specific light emitting materials are needed?? Out side my knowledge base but some renders have the capability to set the Illuminace of the mesh on or off? That common thread maybe worth some check?

It depends upon how you drew the staircase, If it is a component or group, open it for editing and select all of the geometry. Then get Scale and do the scaling operation. This won't have any effect on the material scaling. If you drew the treads and risers as components separate from the stringers, You won't want to scale the entire staircase anyway. This would change the thickness of the stringers. In that case you would want to Move a stringer and then adjust the tread and riser components separately. You could open the components and use Scale, Move or possibly Push/Pull for that. None of those modifications would affect the material. I think this is a common issue for folks because they can scale a group or component without opening it for editing. There are some applications for that but more often, it is the geometry that should be getting scaled.

Well you're welcome!

@gaieus said: Ifyou installed it correctly, go to Window > Preferences > Extensions and activate it with its checkbox. Restart SU and find it under Tools > Fredo collection or rather activate its toolbar from View > Toolbars. Gaieus, Thanks for the tips!!! Jud

To d12dozr, Thanks for the link!

Well, maybe. If you go anywhere else than the home page, there are articles from TDC in the sidebar.

Thank you Chris, I forwarded the message but seems it doesn't work that way. Luca

Hi Does anyone know if the stereo plugin works in 2 point perspective or if this is possible? I have have tried stereo_pan.rb which works great in a standard view but does not work in 2 point perspective - I assume there is some simple technical reason why this cannot happen but I have not yet thought of it. Thanks in advance Boothy

thanks gaieus ..the shadows come out to be as raster..is there any way they come out to be filled vector objects??

I think cloud computing shouldn't be overrated. @unknownuser said: Cloud computing is a model for on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (data storage, processing power). So already NASA's SETI project is cloud computing although it uses private computers spread over the whole world instead of datacenters. Also a VNC connection to a computing center running Windows Server is already cloud computing. Here, the apps run completely on the server and only the output is transferred to a thin client. Most people understand mostly web applications as cloud computing and expect better performance. I think that illusion is only because web apps are "simple" and have less features. Web apps use platform-independent, uncompiled Javascript code which has in general far less performance than compiled code (which only runs on a certain hardware platform and a certain operating system). As to the place where the application runs, I think that depends: Google Docs and GMail continue working even if you remove the network connection. In spreadsheets, you still have the full feature set of calculating, formatting, sorting and resizing cells. If you watch your CPU load, you'll see that such simple tasks in pure javascript are a bit more demanding than they would be in normal desktop applications. Ressource-intensive tasks (file format conversions, video processing, rendering etc.) and search requests are done by the server. On the other side, if everything was done on server side, people would ask to use such apps also when they don't have a network connection available. What I personally like is the platform-independence which allows to use any operating system you prefer, including operating systems that run equally on very old and new hardware. It's quite bizarre that we move towards slow, uncompiled code, but browsers continue improving performance (and modern browsers internally compile/optimize the code for the specific platform).

I've an ATI card and can confirm a poor relationship with SU A recent driver really screwed things up. It's not the most powerful card I use but my desktop runs a nVidia silky smooth. My issues are with selecting. The workspace flickers when making a selection, sometimes even blacking out until releasing mouse button. If anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear them also.

Dear David, The wheel of lines has no significance. The number of lines can be easily increased/decreased according to need, and making the angular spacing regular just helps with construction. The ensemble makes a compact symbol, and one could even label the lines if one wanted the extra clarity. This is done by double clicking on the end of each line with the Text tool. The lines are each 5 mm long, so the whole thing is quite small. It doesn't get in the way if it is locked and hidden. Saving it as a component for reuse might have benefits if one uses the same layer structure, although when I tried to import it into one model it complained and said that it couldn't import an empty component. Both the Layers and the Outliner tools need serious work. For example, there should be an update button so that one can make changes, and then hit update. Currently, changes are made as soon as one hits the return key. This can be quite irritating with big models (lots of groups and components) where one might want to edit contiguous entries in Outliner. The Entities dialogue box needs hitting with a hammer. Its tendency to autofill with script from a previous edit is enough to drive one mad. Rant over! Regards, Bob [image: OOBJ_Layerpurgecontrol.JPG]

Arrg and I looked at that more than once so, you do the other direction.. FYI use the stray line and ThomThom's tools and apply multiple times. I had 9 areas I had to fix by hand, about a 3' effort and the face formed by itself!

Thanks guys I'll give both methods a whirl!

My preference is a single 30" display with 2560x1600 resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio for clear images and exceptional multitasking. [image: monitor-dell-u3011-overview3.jpg]