Hi Palo I want to thank You for this tool! Today I experienced what You had described and Your plugin fixed it! Thanks again!

Dear David, The wheel of lines has no significance. The number of lines can be easily increased/decreased according to need, and making the angular spacing regular just helps with construction. The ensemble makes a compact symbol, and one could even label the lines if one wanted the extra clarity. This is done by double clicking on the end of each line with the Text tool. The lines are each 5 mm long, so the whole thing is quite small. It doesn't get in the way if it is locked and hidden. Saving it as a component for reuse might have benefits if one uses the same layer structure, although when I tried to import it into one model it complained and said that it couldn't import an empty component. Both the Layers and the Outliner tools need serious work. For example, there should be an update button so that one can make changes, and then hit update. Currently, changes are made as soon as one hits the return key. This can be quite irritating with big models (lots of groups and components) where one might want to edit contiguous entries in Outliner. The Entities dialogue box needs hitting with a hammer. Its tendency to autofill with script from a previous edit is enough to drive one mad. Rant over! Regards, Bob [image: OOBJ_Layerpurgecontrol.JPG]

I think cloud computing shouldn't be overrated. @unknownuser said: Cloud computing is a model for on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (data storage, processing power). So already NASA's SETI project is cloud computing although it uses private computers spread over the whole world instead of datacenters. Also a VNC connection to a computing center running Windows Server is already cloud computing. Here, the apps run completely on the server and only the output is transferred to a thin client. Most people understand mostly web applications as cloud computing and expect better performance. I think that illusion is only because web apps are "simple" and have less features. Web apps use platform-independent, uncompiled Javascript code which has in general far less performance than compiled code (which only runs on a certain hardware platform and a certain operating system). As to the place where the application runs, I think that depends: Google Docs and GMail continue working even if you remove the network connection. In spreadsheets, you still have the full feature set of calculating, formatting, sorting and resizing cells. If you watch your CPU load, you'll see that such simple tasks in pure javascript are a bit more demanding than they would be in normal desktop applications. Ressource-intensive tasks (file format conversions, video processing, rendering etc.) and search requests are done by the server. On the other side, if everything was done on server side, people would ask to use such apps also when they don't have a network connection available. What I personally like is the platform-independence which allows to use any operating system you prefer, including operating systems that run equally on very old and new hardware. It's quite bizarre that we move towards slow, uncompiled code, but browsers continue improving performance (and modern browsers internally compile/optimize the code for the specific platform).

@dansphere said: It's not a user error thank you very much. You welcome!

Oh man, he was hilarious. He was kicked out of dropbox because his (rather huge) texture packs got millions of hits in a couple of days.

ah yes, that's the PMnotifications you get when a new post is approved (only newly registered members). I would say leave the option for admins to email you. This means that if you subscribe to your own topic or you get a PM, you will receive an automated notification. I am too lazy to send you emails (and if I really want, that option cannot really stop me as I have access to your email address). If we want to send out board emails, we now use a reliable, 3rd party service. If we send out something from here, that can only be in case of emergency (like the site hacked and an important warning to everyone to change passwords or similar).

I am on a windows 7 64bit machine and I opened 4 sessions at the same time and got NO expired warning and no lag. Scott

Thanks guys I'll give both methods a whirl!

@daiku said: This script does not seem to be available. Anyone know where I can get it? It's author 'TBD' is one of the top guys around here: PM him and ask nicely, offering money etc etc...

You can also use the built-in Offset Tool on two or move preselected edges and type in an amount to offset a copy OR offset all of the edges of a selected face by an amount. There is also a double-line tool [dline] by Didier Bur / Jim Foltz, it's available from the crai depot http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=804 Or in this post here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=297720#p297720

Use the boundingbox plugin, and add an X on the bottom of the box. Group everything and then reposition the center point of the X on the origin (it's a clickable point).

Thank you Chris, I forwarded the message but seems it doesn't work that way. Luca

I get the same when I download a file from the warehouse and choose to open (not download and save), too. I am also on XP.

I'm sure you have already tried sandbox that last picture look like you did. Sandbox is very flexible for creating those organic shapes with triangles. Then you can tweak each one later. I have used sanbox to create organic walls or floors. Hope this helps

Arrg and I looked at that more than once so, you do the other direction.. FYI use the stray line and ThomThom's tools and apply multiple times. I had 9 areas I had to fix by hand, about a 3' effort and the face formed by itself!

It really done:) thanks a lot .

A remark: Don't forget to copy/save your path before convert it in a polyline. Because depending of your division, its aspect is going to be broken (as a polyline ) simon

NEVERMIND, thomthom's Axis tools solves this in an instant! http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30508&p=267844&hilit=%5BPlugin%5D#p267844

That's OK - your post made me fix a minor issue with nested components... For the avoidance of doubt... The default punch-depth of 20"/500mm should suit most set ups. If you make it mush bigger it might clash with other things in the model. If you make it too small it might not punch right through thicker walls. The punched hole is either the punch depth OR to the inner face of the wall you are working on IF it is less or equal to the punch depth. If you have a range of walls 4/6/8/10/12/16" then a 20" setting will work for all of them, with no need to change anything. If you suddenly have a 'castle' with a wall that's ~40" thick you can change the setting temporarily to allow for that...

Ah well, it is not only "pretty" but was quite fast, too! (The moving of the letters up/down was an excellent trick, too).