Jean thanks for that. In fact that was also a request from the editor. cheers Alan

Well, not another "method", but there's [CASF[FunShapes.rb in the Ruby Library Depot with which you can quickly create (among others) horns, too. Yes, I know that it is first of all essential for someone to be able to model it rather than use plugins but when you are lazy (or in a rush...)

thanks alot thats clear now here some stuff i made last year http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3451/banegtgoedjp5.jpg http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/9878/kiosk12vq1.jpg working on some houses also now will post them when they are ready

@bcoleman001 said: Thanks Chris! I was looking on their main site. No wonder I couldn't find it. Glad I could help. cd

Thanks Ron I have had a look at it. It looks complicated and I am not sure I fully understand it, but I've saved it and will study it. Thanks again. Paul

Hola and bienvenidos! i see ur a piranesi user! i love lookin at piranesi works.. i am however toooo lazy to use it and hence i stick with renderers that do all the work for me! LOL!

I have often wondered why a shadow couldn't be expressed as a material. I think you're on to something here, Tim. I'm sure the SU gurus have pondered this, yes?

I believe the component window will do what you want - just click on "in model" to see all components in your model. Click on the details menu and you'll see options for saving them.

@wo3dan said: Tim, I don’t get it. You mean that when you have selected something it is not possible to click next to the group- or component- names in the outliner to deselect, i.e. in white space. That would be an immense MacDrawBack. In Windows we can. And what would be the purpose of an empty group…… I still don’t get it. Clicking on a special empty group in the outliner to unselect is like asking for that white space. A group of any size that has nothing visible (and I don’t mean by hiding entities) is easy but you would still select it by clicking on it, whether in the model or in the outliner. Dylan’s suggestion for another mouse sounds like a good idea. Wo3Dan Wo3Dan -- I can see you've never used the Mac outliner! OK, we can stretch it vertically, but often, my list of groups fills the entire window. No white space. Clicking in the white space to the side of a group selects that group. If we could simply click on the top-level model name to deselect everything (like you can in Windows)...I think it was CraigD who agreed this should be implemented, but that was over a year ago... There are a LOT of problems with the Mac Outliner...but that's for another place... Oh, and thanks for the tip, Johnny!

I tried with your model and it seemed to work for me.

1 Step. Before Illustrator. *)Layout > AutoCad joining linies together, making different line weights. !B

When you print a vector PDF, either by clicking on the "use high-accuracy HLR" option in the Print dialog, or by exporting a PDF via the Export>2D Image function, the SU view is exported as a 2D image with vector lines and flat-colour fills. It seems to me too that no settings in the shadow settings dialog, like the light and dark sliders, or the "use sun for shading" have any effect on the darkness and colours of the generated fills. I don't know if it is a bug, or just a feature lacking... Anssi

Yes this happens there all the time I told you.

I use this method frequently when I want to show two views of something in the same image. The "mirror frame" and surface aren't required but I find that they help to communicate that the viewer is looking at a mirrored view. Here are a couple of examples. [image: smallbox1.jpg] [image: woodratcarriagemod.jpg]

You have to remember though that a dryer vent like that is made up of a spiral not a series of circular wires. At least the one attached to my dryer is. Ive never seen one that is made up of single circles of wire embedded into the covering material. On a side note that looks REALLY good.

That's it. Thx. Marc

Hi there, Just some thoughts: Make sure you don't have any odd characters in the image names. Make sure they are not longer than 8 characters (I'm not sure this is relevant but might be) Make sure you don't apply the textures on the back (blue) faces. You can check this by turning your render style in SU into Monochrome - if you see any back faces, it is bad. In the Export Options dialogue, check to export texture maps Apart from the above, when exporting texture maps, see that you have two options: preserving texture coordinates orwelding vertices. If there are no curved faces in your model, you're lucky and choose the first option. If you do, follow Chris Fulmer's tutorial quoted in this post (you may find that thread useful also).

@unknownuser said: If you want your splitting plane to be parallel the any standard plane (red-green or red blue or green-blue), you may rotate the circle (before extrusion) or cylinder (after extrusion). Use 7.5° if the circle has 24 segments. The formula is 180 ÷ number of segments. Exactly...and that is what my skippy (and formula) are about. The whole idea is using the formula: number of sides of circle = any odd number * 2 is so that one doesn't need to rotate the circle after creating it. See the skippy example and you'll see. best regards, Chipp

3.2 ghz 8 core mac pro. Starting out with 10 gig ram (expandable to 32!) and 2 HDD, one 500 and one 1T (expandable to 4 1T). IT is also coming with the Nvida 8800 GT graphics card (and the computer supports 2 graphics cards!) and a 22' and a 19" monitor. I have been waiting 5 weeks for this bad boy to ship and it is scheduled to arrive today! I am toying with the idea of driving around looking for the Fedex truck (small town here) and getting it early. I have benchmarked a bunch of animation exports, both SU and raytraced, so I will have a good idea how much faster the new one is from the Macbook Pro I have been using. I am also looking forward to doing some top flight video editing to further polish my animations. Can anyone say "flicker filter"? I am having a hard time concentrating (for the last week, really )

Obviously the file itself needs some bytes (save an emty one to see how much) and additionally, the info about where, what size, how rotated etc. of the individual instances are also takes up some space. Obviously, with more complex components, the "profit" is bigger.