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@solo said:
@unknownuser said:
Anyway in Europe there are not software patents
really? so how does MS, Apple, HTC etc getting away with it then?Well, I haven't been completely right. You can read about the problem here:
http://eupat.ffii.org/int/intro/index.en.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention
I don't like software patents, but there are lobbies here trying to export the terrible american model.
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Wow, awesome plugin!!
I think we will have to wait for more news.Daniel S
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I will just have to wait for more info.
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It is an amazing tool but i agree on the price...
We'll no more in 4 days i suppose with the 2 week trial.
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i mean come on..
t-splines for rhino is $599 and that radically changes how/what you can do in rhino..
this ain't no t-splines
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@diego-rodriguez said:
http://www.tgi3d.com/
We are scheduled to launch on October 15th, 2010only $149-
that's way too much for a sketchup plugin (in my opinion)
i guess they'll figure that out soon enough though and drop the price..
honestly, a su plugin shouldn't be more than $50 max and i don't even think this is a $50 joint.
$30 and i might consider it
[talking about plugins that don't radically change sketchup and in essence are separate apps of their own][edit]
wait, a thousand bucks for the full version??
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They have to pay lawyers for defending their patent against big corporations...
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@pichuneke said:
They have to pay lawyers for defending their patent against big corporations...
or, they think it's smarter to sell 1 @ $999 instead of 50 @ $29
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@unknownuser said:
@pichuneke said:
They have to pay lawyers for defending their patent against big corporations...
or, they think it's smarter to sell 1 @ $999 instead of 50 @ $29
I say that because I recently read why graphene wasn't patented (they have won 2010 Nobel Prize):
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101007/full/news.2010.525.html
@unknownuser said:
You haven't yet patented graphene. Why is that?
We considered patenting; we prepared a patent and it was nearly filed. Then I had an interaction with a big, multinational electronics company. I approached a guy at a conference and said, "We've got this patent coming up, would you be interested in sponsoring it over the years?" It's quite expensive to keep a patent alive for 20 years. The guy told me, "We are looking at graphene, and it might have a future in the long term. If after ten years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us." That's a direct quote.
No, I am not against all patents, but they must be limited, like software patents. And I shut up my mouth, I don't want to start an offtopic about patents.
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Perhaps someone can make a similar cross section tool for adding loop cuts. That's a good idea. The others it seems we could achieve with existing plugins.
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I agree with Adam, loop cuts is something we need, the other stuff we are getting shortly from Dale (whaat) with SDS2 which will be even more powerful and with a few UV tools.
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@solo said:
I agree with Adam, loop cuts is something we need, the other stuff we are getting shortly from Dale (whaat) with SDS2 which will be even more powerful and with a few UV tools.
Sweet! I was just wondering if Dale was still working on this. Excited to see what he comes up with!
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Yummy, UV-tools! This is good news Pete, thanks for cheering us up. I mean that I don't expect good software to be extremely inexpensive, but the pricing of Tgi3D has absorbed my exitement for now.
Like Mitcorb says: lets sit, watch and learn.
Btw, photogrammetric modelling I get for less with PhotoSketch. -
Just got an email from Mr Gulcan Ocali,Product Manager http://www.tgi3d.com - it says " Our website (http://www.tgi3d.com) is currently under construction. We are scheduled to launch on October 15th, 2010, at which time our products will be available for trial download and purchase."
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@earthmover said:
Perhaps someone can make a similar cross section tool for adding loop cuts. That's a good idea. The others it seems we could achieve with existing plugins.
I'd say we'll see something similar in no time.
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Blender's been able to do loop cuts for years.
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@unknownuser said:
Blender's been able to do loop cuts for years.
So has many other modeling apps, but we want SU to do it right?
After all Blender does not have SU's UI.
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Yes Solo:
You are right. I haven't used Blender since 2.48. Why? Because of Sketchup's UI. But I keep my eyes open.
What I see in this Tgi3d is akin to Maya, at least visually. Pushes Sketchup to version 12.
Everyone is marvelling at what they see, yet I am sure they noticed all the polys being created. And--what I viewed pretty much matched what all of our revered Ruby masters have developed.
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