Are you willing to build this yourself or how much choice do you have in deciding which parts you get? About the CPU, here is a comparison of the i7 965 extreme and the 950 (I couldn't find the 960 but assume the 965 should be better) and there isn't much of a gap between the two. If it's much of a price increase I'd say you'd get more for your money elsewhere. Incidentally, that is a good place to compare different CPUs and GPUs. For the case, there are better options. If you want a nice case (good looks, noise reduction, and good ventilation) the Antec P183 would be my choice. If you want something cheaper, but still pretty nice (good ventilation, slightly cheaper build) the Antec 300 illusion would be another way to go (personally, I would cut the wire to the blue lights as they look a little 'gamer' to me -- aside from that it's a pretty clean looking case). The Sonata seems a little generic with no real functional advantages. For the graphics card, the 470 is a very good card, but also very loud and runs very hot. The 460 is not much of a drop in performance but does much better than the 470 for heat and noise. If you need more power down the road, add a second (just make sure you get a motherboard that supports this if you think you might want to do that at some point) and 2 460's beat a 480 by about 25% on average (see my previous post). For storage the Samsung Spinpoint F3 seems to be the way to go (for speed, at least). As far as CPU cooling -- I think this is a good idea. If you're investing thousands on a system spend 30 bucks and get a quality aftermarket cooler. If you ever want to overclock -- great! but even if you don't the 1366 chipset runs hot and it can only help the lifespan of the system to get one. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus seems to be the best for price/performance (at $30) but most any cooler should be better than the stock cooler. Here's a list comparing various coolers -- this is based around the 1156 chipset but most of these (the 212, specifically) will work for 1366 as well. In case someone's not familiar with them: 1366 = i7 9xx family of processors 1156 = i5 7/8xx family I hope I'm not overwhelming you with information but this is something I've been researching for a while for when I can afford a system.

Thank you for replying. Yes. Even tried recreating the texture from scratch in SU8 - same result.

straight from the top... ^^^^^ thanks John... have you started a thread for your error? I'm sure the folks at IDX are either working on this or want to know about it.

@unknownuser said: @tig said: Try EEbyRails or CurviLoft ??? Also, for starters, you might want to extrude the normal arcs the use the scale tool on the surface edges to squish and stretch the arcs. That's the way I would do it. A while back I needed to draw a drooped mesh roof between 2 curved joists. Think BigMac Arches or better yet, a saddle. (no time to create a pictorial, sorry) I setup the 2 curved joists with the arc tool. (Saddle back & front edges) Then I ran a line between the apex points. From the 2 points I drew another arc downwards to the desired bulge. (the seat) That created a segment face. I highlighted one of the joist 1/2 arcs. Then the followme tool pointed to the curve segment. That gave me a flat cover on 1/2 the roof arc. I deleted the top flat and the 2 end segments faces, and what is left is 1/2 of a curved mesh roof surface. Just copy the surface and flip it into place to complete the roof. Make the join line soft&smooth. You can do it in less time than it took to read this.

You have a great talent in designing rugs. You have done a unique rug design. The color is very artistic and it really fits in the turning-design style.

I'm sure any members with suitable stuff will help... but meanwhile try searching the 3Dwarehouse - here's the search results for 'grain+bin' http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=grain+bin&styp=m&btnG=Search&reps=1

Any ideas, folks?

If you instal version 8 then you can save toolbar locations and if they go all strange again mostly due to reducing SU window size, then you can restore the toolbars again.

reverse the face and apply texture. your rendering will be fine..

Thanks, everyone... I was using a profile for the front and back of the model. For some reason the width of one of the profiles was slightly shorter. I suspect I inadvertently moved an edge while I was moving it into position as an import and sliding it into place. I couldn't see the break until I scaled it up. Thanks everyone.

Works great TIG. Thanks!

Guys this does not show up at Sketchucation Plugin Store, though it's a great plugin! Shouldn't it be there? Best regards, JQL

@sasrabirawa said: Thanks.. it works very well, but we need to detour... I've sent the problem to Google, hope they will fix it in the next update Gulfo had already reported this to them a week ago. The bug was reported before then as well and hopefully will be fixed in the maintenance release.

@honoluludesktop said: Apple is candy wrapper, and I do not mean that badly. I wear Ferragamo shoes too. i dunno, i think it goes a bit beyond just making the things look fancy.. the unibody design of their laptops can't be beat.. literally, take a solid chunk of aluminum and carve out the innards. they're not just candy wrapped, they're light and durable with attention to detail candy wrappings i honestly think if you walked in your honolulu apple store(s) and picked one up that you'd be impressed with the design.. [wether or not you'd like OSX, well, that's a different story ] and hey, you even get a little feel good music/soft voice type of description of the manufacturing process! [flash=660,405:1n6ao1lo]http://www.youtube.com/v/3OOtuftGO1U?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1[/flash:1n6ao1lo] [point being, yes, you are paying a bit more but you're not paying solely for the boutique factor.. there's some nice engineering/design thrown in there as well]

Aye!

+1 And be able to get thumbnail and details - not either or. Having text and images at the same time allows the eye to scan better.

+1billiontrillion!

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