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.

Hi Chuck, I think I may know what is going on with this issue. I believe your images have an exif (common to digital cameras) format - true? If so, we have finally isolated a bug with exif formatted images. Those images can display correctly on the Mac but fail to display on the PC. Unfortunately, the only workaround that I have found is to save the images with a different format. We are working on this issue though. Does that help? Best regards, Tricia

Thanks Jean.

besides that, the move tool would still be important for moves to where there is no reference (then you would enter a distance in the VCB) and for copying, of course.

gai and dan, i apologise for my moment of stupidity. of course i know the move/copy sequence but somehow i totally forgot the control+C way. what i was probably after is something like there is in vectorworks: control+D duplicates the object and leaves it on the same spot. then you can move it by a specific distante through a dialog box. but one can do basically the same with move/copy. sorry and thanks.

I agree this would be a nice addition.

@mateo soletic said: I have great confidence in this forums general knowledge. Good to see Paul proved you right in less than 15 minutes

And many thanks to Rick W, of course, for "selectatstart" and many other fine scripts!

I have been having this same problem since at least 10-5-07, when I first filed a bug report. I have reported this bug twice, and the Sketchup team was not helpful either time. The first time, they told me to update to the latest version, even though I was already on the latest version. The second time, they told me it this problem occurs after Sketchup crashed. Which has not been my experience. I am on Leopard and a Macbook Pro. edit: I am using only Wifi, and am using the latest version of Sketchup.

Hey Craig, Sounds like an amazing job opportunity -- I am VERY interested! I tossed my resume on the pile as well... looking forward to hearing back/getting some more info.

Can be used for turntable sculpting

AndyC, I experienced the same with ATi HD 2xxx series cards... not the best solution to use with SU... For my new machine I chose a Nvidia Quadro (FX2500 / 512MB). It works perfectly for SU.

I thin we would all like to know sometimes how long we have spent on a model. I bet the reality is quite different to your perception! I shall buy this script.

Well thanks guys, I really thought I had tried that before, but I never did because I thought it always would say "Save As" instead of "Save Link As". For some reason i thought that "Save Link As" would save the internet address. Thanks again. I should have known better.

Any news would be a surprise

Great job Chuck! That is a monster! I'm looking forward to seeing more as it progresses.

OK, thanks. I know some features do not change with the axis change (they stick to the original global axes) I didn't remember this was one.

Good day eh? [image: RUSH-WEB.gif] To smooth hold down the ctl key while erasing.