Congratulations!

Anssi

On my other computer I have SU versions 3, 4, 5 and 6 happily coexisting (haven't fired up v. 3 for a long time, though).

Anssi

Yes, it might be faster. I am not sure about the amount of the speed increase, though, as today I am using my XP Pro computer, and surfing with my XP Home computer that has Norton 360 (but that I generally use for surfing, nevertheless)is generally slower.

Anssi

This might be a bit OT as you need AutoCad...

I took an old Autolisp program I once made and modified it to do this:

Scan a selection for text entities. Read the text and convert it to a number and multiply it with an user supplied factor (for unit conversions). Draw a line from the text insertion point to the text upper right corner, using the text as the Z height of the line endpoints. Repeat until all texts in the selection have been processed.

The result should be a cloud of small lines that the SU Sandbox from Contours tool can cover with a surface.

How it works:

• copy the txt23d.lsp file somewhere where Autocad can find it. It should work if put in the same directory as the drawing file to process.
• type (load "txt23d") to the AutoCad command line and press Enter
• type txt23d and Enter
• It asks the user for a selection
• It asks the user for a Z scale factor

Disclaimer: The lisp has almost none error checking. Scale factor should reset itself to 1 if you forget to give one. It's not rocket science - the real height point may be not exactly at the text insertion.

Anssi

TXT23D.zip

Tom,

The only advantage of 64 bits is that it can address larger amounts of memory (some terabytes I think). So if you don't use more than the 2...3 GB common today, there is no advantage. In theory it even runs 32-bit software a little slower than a 32-bit OS. The same happened when 8-bit (DOS) was changed into 16-bit (windows 3.1) and that into 32-bit.

Anssi

@solo said:

Hmmm!!

Notice a trend here?

The places with high gas prices have cheap beer and visa-versa...life is yin-yang.

Well, I'm starting to wish that cars could be run with beer, or milk. The cheapest beer is only slightly more expensive than gas today, and milk is about the same price if not cheaper...

Anssi

I think there are many possible reasons:

• for people not thinking in 3D. it is not so terribly easy
• if your needs are "one-off", the time to learn it is still quite long
• many kitchen manufacturers and the like have their own design "workshops", many of them web-based
• many kitchen manufacturers and the lika have a "free" design service
• components are not so readily available, especially of the whole product ranges of leading manufacturers.
• getting components may require the mastery of conversion applications, file formats and scaling.
• SU has no simple and reliable 2D interface...

Anssi

What do you mean by beer? For purists it is a beverage made from water, barley(not sure about my English here), hops, and yeast - in large parts of Germany it is illegal to call a product beer if it has other ingredients...

Anssi

When you print a vector PDF, either by clicking on the "use high-accuracy HLR" option in the Print dialog, or by exporting a PDF via the Export>2D Image function, the SU view is exported as a 2D image with vector lines and flat-colour fills. It seems to me too that no settings in the shadow settings dialog, like the light and dark sliders, or the "use sun for shading" have any effect on the darkness and colours of the generated fills. I don't know if it is a bug, or just a feature lacking...

Anssi

Jorgensen,

There is essentially no difference between an EPS or PDF 2D export from SU, the PDF is just compressed the way PDFs are. I have been able to edit both in Illustrator CS2. I don't use it often, and I don't have it on the computer I am now at, so my terminology might be quite wrong. The geometry is grouped inside a "compound path" that must be "released" or exploded, or something like that, until you can edit the lines and fills inside. It's often been very useful, as the "use sun for shading" and the light and dark shadow settings do not seem to have any effect on the fill colours in the PDF export.

Anssi

Around 1.42 Euros/litre in our parts. The price jumped up about 0.2 Euros at New Year.

Anssi

Granted. You'll be here in mid/late November. Nice if you love darkness and sleet. Cool too (temperatures around zero Celsius)

I wish we always had summer.

Anssi

Granted. The tools are so organic that the critters you make will eat your motherboard.

I wish SU 7 had fat faces

Anssi

Granted. You can go to work in the evening and work all night

I wish my mailbox wouldn't be always chock full with silly adverts

Anssi

Granted, but you have to build a small guillotine for every blade to do it.

I wish my project would do itself.

Anssi

I just wonder if the original images are in the CMYK colour space. But in that case Windows IE shouldn't be able to display them at all...

Anssi

Granted but you'll be the manicurist

I wish I could play the piano

Anssi

@unknownuser said:

So ur saying Anssi that a 2D drawing with points, which is what I have, could be changed into a 3D drawing. That would save alot of work. Can that be done? The Z value would have to be added to each point though, and there are 1300!

It depends on how the 3D information is displayed in the file. For instance, I have seen many site surveys with the height information as simple text objects strewn around the map, or the height is in an attribute of a block. In both these cases it is possible to grab the 2D coordinates of the object, and use the text contents for the Z information, and draw something there that is importable to SU. A sort of "unflatten" operation. Of course the requirement is that the information is there in some consistent form.

Anssi

Granted, but he starts posting to every thread

I wish that everyone was happy.

Anssi

Granted, but they put in a tape drive instead

I wish that summer had been longer

Anssi