Lol. My pool awareness keeps increasing...

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Hi Stu,

Did you really find these yourself?

There is also lots of similar stuff at http://www.engrish.com

Mr S,

It seems to me that Didier's script expects commas as the break symbol and uses a dot as a decimal symbol. Your file has some other method of distinguishing the x, y, and z coordinates, represented, perhaps, by the characters D+0. You might try opening the survey file with Notepad, and replacing all "D+0" s with commas. Maybe all the lines that clearly don't represent 3D coordinates should be deleted too.

Just a suggestion

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Edit: now that I look at it closer, I am not so sure about how the format could be figured out... Maybe you could ask the supplier.

Inventions claimed to be Finnish:
Sauna
Women's right to vote (1906)
The Molotov Cocktail
The mobile phone (Nokia is a Finnish company that originally made rubber boots and car tyres)

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I am not personally a mobile music person, but a couple of years ago I bought an Ipod mini for my daughter, and she has used it quite a lot. I have heard almost no complaints, and it has been used both with a PC and more recently with a Mac.

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Hi Dylan,

The "Bevels" are in fact small extraneous faces that SU puts in the place of its edges. They go away if you uncheck the "Export standalone edges" in the Export options dialog box.

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Maybe this thread helps

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=5418

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I like these too. And this time you have chosen viewpoints that can be seen by a human, not a fly

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Hi,

The effect is very easy to achieve in Photoshop. Export a colour image with shadows etc. but with edges turned off. Export a second image, as a hidden-line line drawing without shadows. Put the line drawing as a layer above the colour image, set the layer mode to Multiply or Darken, and adjust the layer transparency slider until you get what you want.

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I'm just wondering:

Support for some image formats (TGA was brought to my notice by a thread in the Groups) seems to have been silently removed from the PC version. Were the original images TGA:s?

Also, at least Photoshop recognizes two ways to write many image formats: the Mac and PC byte orders. Generally the PC byte order works excellently with both the PC and Mac, but files in the Mac byte order format cannot be read by many PC applications (luckily Photoshop can...).

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Hi all,

AutoLisp and other nice full AutoCad features are available to AutoCad LT in an affordable package from the Australian software company DRCauto http://www.drcauto.com/
I haven't tested their most recent offers, but an earlier version of their Toolkit worked flawlessly. It's also the basis of many third party add-ons to LT.

A DWG with irritating lines in 3D can be flattened easily with SU too: Select the Plan view, turn off Perspective (select Parallel Perspective), export a 2D image as DWG to full scale, and reimport.

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Stuartb,

You can't run SU with an Intel integrated graphics chip with Hardware Acceleration on. That makes it tedious for all but the smallest models.

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I like this style too, but these very wide camera angles are my pet peeve.

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Great renders! The only question mark for me is the gloss on the concrete surfaces.

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@utiler said:

So what is a good balance for SU as it is? [Processor, RAM, Graphics cards...]

Processor: as fast you can get, within reason
RAM: it seems that 2GB is enough with XP, but get 3
Graphics card: Midrange is enough, the performance difference to high-end is negligible. The Nvidia QuadroFX series cards seem to be the least troublesome.

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They look good to me too. The viewpoint make them look a bit spooky-traditionally this kind of architecture is presented in a 2-point perspective.

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Mike,

It's a good start. I like ArtLantis a lot too for its speed and relative ease, but once you get the hang of its materials and lighting, I find getting rid of the characteristic a bit plasticky "Artlantis look" is somewhat challenging. Maybe it is mostly about texturing, the standard materials are not particularly good.

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I work in a small architectural department of a large company producing many kinds of services to facility owners.

Our department is specialized to renovation and conservation work, but currently we are engaged in many other kinds of projects as well. We rarely do housing.

@remus said:

i see your point, but i doubt the floor would absorb so much energy as to make a noticable difference to how you walk.

If it does not make a noticeable difference, it does not make noticeable energy. And I repeat: all the energy it produces, comes from the food that the people walking eat. If the floor produces energy, it takes it by increasing the energy consumption of the people walking. It's a simple basic rule of physics.

The food chain is notoriously ineffective as to energy input/output. Growing food, feeding it into a mammal and using its muscles to turn a dynamo would not rank high in my scale of energy efficiency.

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As nothing comes out of nothing, the net result would be that commuters would have to eat more to compensate for the more tedious walking...

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