Tom, nice painterly effect. Many of your images would make fine book illustrations. Is this straight SketchUp-as you claim many of your recent renders to be?

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Keep posting your progress.

I have once been there, more than 30 years ago on a student excursion. I still feel the delight.

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It's here too now. Happy New Year to all

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I think that the carets happen when you import something that has a material with a name already in use in the model. As to the hyphens, I guess that they were replaced with the underscores in some release, possibly v.4 when Ruby scripting was introduced. Perhaps they thought that anything a program can interpret as a mathematical symbol is to be avoided in naming conventions.

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Good work!

There is something in the second train shed rendering that makes the train look like a toy. Maybe the foreground texture scale, or the blurryness.

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Fits exactly my current mood-I just stopped watching an old Miyazaki anime movie with my daughter

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@craigd said:

Congratulations Tina!! I can't wait to see Mikenna's first SketchUp model!

May she have a wonderful, exciting and fulfilling life, surrounded by loved ones and supported in the things she desires to do!

Much happiness!

 - CraigD

Can't put it any better! Congratulations!

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I am not sure but I think that it might be a SU model of an example illustration by William Kirby Lockard. To me it seems that the look and feel of SU output has more than a fleeting resemblance of his graphic styles.

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Very nice, Mike

Sorry about all the bad architecture you will be forced to see...

And my models are very hazardous too:"Don't go around that corner,there's nothing there"

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I understand that the memory in a graphics card is mostly used to store the textures, so if you are not using many,many big textures in your model at a time, it should not be very important.

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Well, I just bought my daughter (19) an Imac. The first new thing I got for it was KidPix. Just the right thing to keep 52-year olds from mischief.

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@mike lucey said:

Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin
and particulary the section under 'Sexuality'

@petercharles said:

But what about Eric Gill .......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill

I would have preferred not knowing all this...

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The light is very fine! But yes, the floor texture is overscaled, and maybe the original rug was also much smaller than this, it looks impossibly coarse, almost like woven from thick rope.

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Lovely-I'm reminded of wooden toys I had as a child
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I got to download and try SU in 2003 when v. 3 came out. About 15 minutes convinced me that this is a must-have...

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Ruby workarounds are OK, but it would be best if this was solved inside SU itself. A wall with 2 skins and an exterior and an interior part of a window component becomes two walls and two different windows when imported into ArchiCad, AutoCad Architecture or Revit, so a lot of work must be put into cleaning before or after. A model that has been made with transferring to a BIM package in mind, is seldom an usable model in SU

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@anssi said:

. . . This is a feature of SU. . .

@schreiberbike said:

Feature = problem we can't fix so we'll call it a feature? Or is there really an advantage I don't see?

I'd love to be able to put in a window which cuts a hole in both the inside and the outside surfaces of a wall.

Well-I couldn't call it a bug, as it is clearly designed to work that way. Grouping is there to separate geometry from its context, so it is quite logical that it detaches windows and doors from their background.

Yes, cutting holes to walls would be nice. I would like the feature be implemented by introducing the "fat faces" concept, with a thickness added to the faces themselves.

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Burkhard,

At least the previous generation of Imacs is almost noiseless. I envy my daughter.

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In my books nothing that burns gasoline and is used mainly for fun can be called eco-friendly...

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In this case, that's how it goes. The cutting object must be directly on the surface it is supposed to cut, and grouping separates it from its context. Also, one object can cut only one hole. This is a feature of SU.

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