Gai, you have a good point on the HW acceleration. Reminds me I ought to check for an update on mine. And thanks for keeping the secret.

Welcome and thank you. These will be nice on small projects and I have a few in mind.

Start with the Warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=a064872dcb1dc05f194f34774bdb7e18&prevstart=0 http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=fcebdc2db3f9b4c01ca36424313a787e&prevstart=0 http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e316f8c4460d21e61d225d751745cd28&prevstart=12 http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=dd219f47f06b84eb43b9eef399a0841d&prevstart=12 http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=43d00f1f63d726b043b9eef399a0841d&prevstart=12 http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b18434a7db8a5f7843b9eef399a0841d&prevstart=12

Big thanks Philip!

Hi group. I have just proposed to Google Boulder that they incorporate our colorcharts.org databases into Sketchup. Right now SU is sadly lacking in this area. In order to accomplish great results; calibrate your monitor, use high quality source data and you can manage colors from additive color to subtractive color just as easily as any graphic artist. Printing ink and paint colorant have a lot of similarities, they are both pigment ground up in a clear carrier. You already know that all print media graphic artists manage color from additive color to subtractive color and do color correction on their desktops with spectacular results. Why would you think the same is not available to you when managing paint colors? Here are the two different approaches to obtaining digital paint chip source data for virtual display purposes. The first is by using an inexpensive $300 colorimeter like the Pantone Color Cue. Colorimeter’s have a very low degree of quality and only come up with a close approximation of colors. Anyone using this method to display paint colors on their websites also makes disclaimer statements that the screen color is not to be relied upon and you should purchase a test sample of the paint before proceeding with your paint order. The cost of scanning a color chip using this method is pennies! The above is not considered by the paint industry as a scientific approach and therefore is never used to color match or formulate paint. The second approach is spectrophotometers. This is the one the paint industry uses and relies upon. It is also the one we use. Spectrophotometers and their ancillary equipment start in the $10,000 range and go all the way up to several hundred thousand dollars. Ours cost around $100,000. Low end spectrophotometers read 31 data points across the UV/Vis electromagnetic spectrum. Spectrophotometers over $50,000 will read 400 data points or more. Here is a link for more data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet-visible_spectroscopy. Read “Practical Considerations” on the same link. In laymen’s terms the vast difference between low end and high end spectrophotometers is like trying to use a carpenters tape measure VS a machinists micrometer to obtain high quality incremental data. What this means to you is the higher quality of measured data you start with the better your reproducible results will be for either virtual visualization purposes or paint formulation.

Thanx, found a few good ones already.

thanks bro...u gave something i am looking for a long time......

Thank you very much! This will save me a bunch of time when designing this kind of things: [image: rg6t_Informacion_muros2.jpg]

@mateo soletic said: Hello Cesare, I am sorry but I cannot give you those files like just that on the forum. The thing I can do to to help you is if you write me private a mail explaining who you are and why you need those files I can talk the owners of the files in question the architectural firm that is responsible for the old town Dubrovnik area if they will be so kind to let you have them. Without their consent I cannot give them away to you or anybody else. Thanks, Mateo hello this is my email: ngoisaodo@gmail.com plz send me those files many thanks

There is a (good, with reservations) ruby program called "simplebeam.rb". It provides a dialogue box for you to input the size of your piece of lumber or plywood. I have used it and I like using it. There are several things to remember with this program: You have to go in and change the centimeters to inches inside the text portion of the ruby, that is if you use inches. The program has a major flaw, after you create one component with the program, if you wish to alter any component or one created by the simplebeam ruby you get 3 error boxes when you right click on any component. I have used this ruby, and then disabled it when I am done. I have tried to look at the innards of this ruby to find the cause of the errors, but being a ruby newby I could not find the flaw. I hope that someone repairs this ruby, because it is most useful. Best,

I have a Google tutorial which demonstrates a working weblink, try this from 3D Warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ce5eddf19a1cd04d4af4635b6ebb0145&prevstart=0 I don't have the file on me at the moment but I think this is the one.

Thanks Phillip, these will come in handy. Mike

I just had a "D'oh!" moment again. (I get those a lot) I was goofing up at the Skin step. I guess it would draw a "PREVIEW" Skin but in order for it to take, I had to hit enter again and it would "Generate" it. and from there I could draw the bulgies. Thanks. That helped a lot. Now back to making Flags and Pennants! [image: z3tC_SSB1.jpg]

Eric, Thank you so much. Ben

Hi lordofmax if you are Mac user, you can download to use firefox, not good Safari.

There's some great wood textures there, too, if you didn't notice.

Thanks Sepo, The plug-in looks like it will fit the bill for now.

I tried to make one but like I said earlier I'm not good at making or editing textures but you did an excellent job. Thanks again to everyone that helped... you will see this model in the gallery within the coming days!

Thanks Gai.

here's the model if anyones looking for a corner wc. i've tried to keep the file size as small as possible but the bowl required more faces for a smoother finish than hoped http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=1a4830423b35585393b31e46e42bc546