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  • Rich O BrienR
    Rich O Brien Moderator
    last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 10:11

    MESSAGE FROM THE SKETCHUCATION MANAGEMENT TEAM

    We're delighted to announce the 3rd edition of CatchUp our SketchUcation Community Newsletter!

    This wouldn't have been possible without your amazing contributions. Thank You!

    Some of the content

    • Render Plus Interview
    • โ€˜Behind the scenesโ€™ with John Higgins
    • Create a cable with Eric Lay
    • Developer Interview
    • Go Pano with Mike
    • Tgi3D Photoscan
    • LumenRT Review
    • Post Pro with Dave Richards
    • Construction Modeling with Dennis Fukai

    Please, follow this link to download our Interactive PDF...

    CatchUp Edition 3 - Interactive PDF

    Or you can view our Flipping Page version that is also interactive...

    CatchUp Edition 3 - Flipping Page

    Don't forget to let us know your opinion as we're always listening. Or you can join our Facebook or Twitter to get future updates!

    SCF CatchUp Twitter Page

    or

    Sketchucation Facebook Group

    Again a big 'Thank You' to those who helped out with articles and contributions. If your viewing in PDF there are now bookmarks to each article (for Bruce ๐Ÿ˜‰ ) but no .html version (for Bruce ๐Ÿ˜ข )

    Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp

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      SketchUpNoobie
      last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 12:28

      Very interesting and useful, as always. ๐Ÿ‘

      --

      SketchUpNoobie: the complete noob in all things SketchUp.

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      • Rich O BrienR
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 12:47

        Thanks John.

        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp

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        • daleD
          dale
          last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 13:00

          I'm looking forward to reading it. These are really well done. Thanks for all the effort.

          Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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            SketchUpNoobie
            last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 14:28

            @unknownuser said:

            Thanks John.

            Nope, not me. Thanks to these guys for making this happen:

            Mike Lucey - Managing Director
            Csaba Pozsarko - Training Director
            Octavian Chis- Technical Director
            Richard Oโ€™Brien - Quality Director

            Moderators:
            Pete Stoppel
            Chris Fullmer
            Dylan Morton
            Dave Richards
            Eric Lay
            TIG
            Thomas Thomassen
            Jean Lemire
            Jim Foltz
            Eeva
            Edson Mahfuz
            Majid

            Contributors:
            Eric Lay
            Mike Lucey
            Al Hart
            Thomas Thomassen
            Bjorn Kare Nilsson
            Dave Richards
            John Higgins
            Thomas Thomassen
            Csaba Pozsarko
            Dennis Fukai

            Thanks everyone! ๐Ÿ˜„

            --

            SketchUpNoobie: the complete noob in all things SketchUp.

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            • thomthomT
              thomthom
              last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 14:40

              Yea - I work so hard I even get my name listed three times! ๐Ÿ˜„

              Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              • Rich O BrienR
                Rich O Brien Moderator
                last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 14:43

                thomthomthom

                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp

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                • thomthomT
                  thomthom
                  last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 14:45

                  Aye!!! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ I burned my bacon! Cursed you SCF!! ๐Ÿ˜ก

                  Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • thomthomT
                    thomthom
                    last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 14:46

                    @unknownuser said:

                    thomthomthom

                    Full name is: thomthomthom-de-thomthom-di-thom

                    Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                    • thomthomT
                      thomthom
                      last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 14:46

                      I was really looking forward to bacon with my pancakes... ๐Ÿ˜ž

                      hmmm... baconware...?

                      Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        bjornkn
                        last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 15:12

                        Lots of interesting reading ๐Ÿ˜„

                        BTW, for those who wonder about the new version of Photoscan, the problem with axes not aligned with the SU axes is now solved. No more problems with Sun/shadows and orbiting ๐Ÿ˜„
                        Regarding the unusually high price, $999, it is expensive for a SU plugin, but it is pretty cheap for a photogrammetry program. The only(?) currently freely available competitor today, Photomodeler, costs almost twice as much here in Norway (cheaper in US/Canada though - I had a friend in Canada buy it for me...) for the base version. With Scanner module (similar to Image-based surface matching in PhotoScan) it would cost $2600 in USA, and ~$4300 here (incl 25% VAT & freight from Denmark) ๐Ÿ˜ž

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                        • PixeroP
                          Pixero
                          last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 16:04

                          @thomthom said:

                          Full name is: thomthomthom-de-thomthom-di-thom

                          ๐Ÿคฃ

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                          • thomthomT
                            thomthom
                            last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 17:44

                            @bjornkn said:

                            ...costs almost twice as much here in Norway...

                            grumble mumble ..Norwegian taxes... grumble

                            Thomas Thomassen โ€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                              bjornkn
                              last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 18:09

                              Well, it isn't only the taxes...
                              If you get a box shipped from abroad you'll have to pay the VAT anyway on top of the price...
                              Like so many companies do, including Adobe, Autodesk, Maxon, Realviz etc, Eos (who makes Photomodeler) thinks that Norwegians (and other Europeans) are so much more wealthy (or stupid?) than Americans and Canadians that they can charge us much more for the same piece of software, even when downloaded from the same server ๐Ÿ˜ž
                              Even Realviz, the French company that made ImageModeler, which was bought by Autodesk, used to charge much more from Europeans than from USA/Canada. I had a dispute with them because I found a webshop in US that sold it to me for the US price. As all packages were shipped from Realviz/France anyway they "spotted" me, but after a few emails I ended up paying the US price anyway.
                              AFAIK SketchUp is still the same price worldwide? And so is PhotoScan - which is great ๐Ÿ˜„

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                              • GaieusG
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 18:36

                                @bjornkn said:

                                AFAIK SketchUp is still the same price worldwide?

                                Not if you buy it from a local reseller. They have to charge the same, local taxes then. See here:
                                http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?hl=en&tid=496b43593f40b5ca


                                Ah and another thing: here we are forced to buy in Euros. And somehow the exchange rate is not the same according to the SU Web Store than in the bank (meaning we pay more). Good that when I bought Pro, I could still buy in $.

                                Gai...

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                                • TIGT
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 18:47

                                  If you buy from Google.com direct they'll charge VAT if your address is within the EU based on the Irish rate [Google's EU HQ is in Dublin]... unless you have a local EU VAT reference code when it's deducted and you have to pay it direct to your own revenue office if applicable - talk about complicated ๐Ÿ˜’

                                  TIG

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                                    tfdesign
                                    last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 19:33

                                    @thomthom said:

                                    Aye!!! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ I burned my bacon! Cursed you SCF!! ๐Ÿ˜ก

                                    Burnt bacon is awesome! Since starting the Atkins diet, I've been feasting on bacon and 3 eggs for breakfast everyday! For 6 months!! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

                                    Porridge is now a treat, and no longer a type of "torture"! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

                                    My book "Let's SketchUp!" Download from here

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                                      solo
                                      last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 19:40

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      I've been feasting on bacon and 3 eggs for breakfast everyday

                                      ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                                      Heart attack waiting to happen mate.

                                      http://www.solos-art.com

                                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                      • Rich O BrienR
                                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                                        last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 19:46

                                        Don't encourage him Pete or we'll have 'Mountains out of Muesli' ๐Ÿ˜’

                                        You should try the Windows 7 diet Tom. Your so busy getting things done on PCs that you forget to eat/snack/get fat. Whilst on Mac you afraid to touch them so you sit and admire while munching Jammy Dodgers.

                                        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp

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                                          bjornkn
                                          last edited by 23 Jun 2011, 19:58

                                          @tig said:

                                          If you buy from Google.com direct they'll charge VAT if your address is within the EU based on the Irish rate [Google's EU HQ is in Dublin]... unless you have a local EU VAT reference code when it's deducted and you have to pay it direct to your own revenue office if applicable - talk about complicated ๐Ÿ˜’

                                          Lucky that we're not a member in EU then ๐Ÿ˜‰ We're supposed to pay VAT when buying downloadable software abroad, but I doubt that many people contact the tax collector and asks if they can pay ๐Ÿ˜‰ BTW, as a company/freelancer you get the VAT back anyway, but you're still supposed to pay it in the first place!

                                          But the price for SU is the same all over the world, isn't it still?

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