What do you look for when you sign in?

watkins

Dear All,

Since this is directly related to the Forum and all things Sketchup I thought it best to post here.

I must visit the Forum 3 or 4 times daily, with my longest session between 6:00 am and 8:00 am. This is what I look for (top four):

New techniques and tutorials, and particularly, how to use existing tools in new and surprising ways. I would like to become a better modeller for both work and play.
New plugins, which I tend to monitor for a while rather than download immediately. I need to know that the plugin is going to be useful to me before I download it, and that takes a little time to decide. Seeing how others use a plugin usually helps, so more examples please.
Cries of help and the solutions that follow. This is where I learn most.
Presentations of new work (usually in Gallery), although it would be nice if more of the presenters would use the opportunity to share a few techniques. Silver-Shadow has been brilliant in this respect, and a great inspiration.

Okay, what do you look for when you sign in?

Kind regards,
Bob

remus

First off would probably be general banter in the corner bar.

Then its usually a trip to the gallery to see if anyones posted any cool new stuff, id say this is probably one of the more interesting bits of the forum. I find it very good for inspiration.

I then usually check the ruby forum for new scripts, as there always seems to be something new and interesting waiting around the corner.

Finally i usually end up in the SU and newbie forums for general troubleshooting stuff.

solo

I go to 'Active topics' and knock off the topics from top to bottom, trying not to miss a single post.

Gaieus

Well, after some general board stuff (involving admin duties and discussions with the mods) I generally go to the Newbie Forum then the SketchUp Forum then the Corner Bar then the Ruby Forum... The last I visit is generally the Gallery - not because that's the worst but "duty first and entertainment afterwards" - plus that is the "dessert" of the meal for me.

This has changed a bit lately (although getting back to regular now) as there were important discussions abozut the BaseCamp in the Corner Bar so I visitet that first (maybe not any more).

I'm still trying to Catch Up with what I missed during BC

tomislavm

Hi!
This are my favorites:

Gallery
Sketchup Discussion
Ruby Forum
Corner bar
Tutorials
Extensions

Alan Fraser

I usually check out the Newbie and SketchUp sections first to check on problems or see if anyone has responded to a solution. Then I head over to the Ruby and Corner Bar (in no particular priority) to see what's new there.

Oddly enough for a trained artist, I don't visit the Gallery all that often. This is probably because I don't have much use for rendering techniques in my own work. The concentration is entirely on the construction of a component, not making an artistic render from it....although I do have to occasionally check that stuff will render correctly.
I think also that I'm far more biased to getting my hands dirty with real media to produce a finished image rather then rendering a SU mesh. This is not to suggest that there isn't some brilliant imagery being exhibited in the Gallery

I have three tabs set up on Firefox as my home page...FormFonts, SCF and the SU Beta Forums. That maybe explains why I appear to be around so much...I'm probably logged in but actually working on the FF tab.

GreyHead

Similar approach to Pete - I click 'New Posts', go to the end of the list and middle-click to open them all up in new tabs (or in batches of 20 or so if there are a lot). Then I click through the tabs - I have the forum set up to show the latest post first. If it's not of interest I close the tab, if I want to know more I'll scroll down to see all the new posts in the thread.

Bob

Daniel

I'm usually making quick glances throughout the day while at work. I will scan the latest submissions in the Gallery, and then the corner bar. Sometimes I will look in the SU discussion forum, or the components.