Hello JJ and Patrick,
did this project ever get up?
I'd love to see what you came up with.
Baz

Bjanzen
I agree with all the above, I love layout but purely for its reference to the SU model.
I find the GUI very clunky and frankly tedious. Selecting and moving is my main complaint, but the rest is pretty ordinary too.
I might be spoilt, I've been using Macromedia Fireworks for years and its a very elegant interface and not at all hard to get the hang of.
It would be great if you could have a look at it and you'd see what I mean. It's what I always used to use for presentations before Layout and it's not dissimiliar to Layout in its GUI.
Baz

thanks tom, how about a eucalypt some time for us aussies, (although I understand they are fairly common in california.)

baz

Yeah, guess you're right dedmin, thanks.
Baz.
Ps Any progress on the windsor chair? Been looking forward to seeing it.

hi guys, I dont know when this happened but I can no longer access the shadow dialog box,
Shadows on/off works fine as do the time and month sliders.
Any ideas?
Baz

DH, that last one is a ripper! I like the way the graphic elements integrate with the model/scene. Sometimes I feel that the 'scribble gestures' are an afterthought and don't always serve the idea. Not this time tho.

baz "older but wiser" mills

Ps: I'd like to see some texture or pattern on the wings

@dave r said:

No worries, my friend. You had a good excuse.

I'm glad it makes more sense, now.

How's your head?

Dave

my head? is that the thing between my ears thats pounding?
baz

@dave r said:

I found pictures of an adjustable box joint jig.
Does that shed an light?

Dave, sorry about that, had a bit of a meltdown last night.
But in the sober light of day the jig does make a lot of sense, I will have to knock one up for the next job.
baz

@dave r said:

That, too. A good shooting board.

ta.

@dave r said:

Happy Birthday and good night.

Nice work on the bits box. Very good.

donkey's ear?

@dave r said:

I found pictures of an adjustable box joint jig.

[Does that shed an light?
quote="Dave R"]I found pictures of an adjustable box joint jig.

@dave r said:

I found pictures of an adjustable box joint jig.

[Does that shed an light?
Does that shed an light?
@dave r said:

I found pictures of an adjustable box joint jig.

[Does that shed an light?
/quote

no, it does not, but that could be me as i can hardly type at the mo, its my 58 birthday as we speak and i have overtrained and i cannot..... etc. think.....
baz.
ps: i would like to say how much i appreciate your friendship and others on this forum.
g/nite-------------------

@dave r said:

I actually like the whooshing sound better than the high pitch whine of a single blade. And with proper methods including a slower feed rate, the thing isn't really any worse than a single blade. The worst part for me is that mine drags up sawdust out of the case under the table and blows it around the shop. I should be more religious about using my dust collector on the saw all the time.

Let me see if I can do a quick sketch for you.

While we are waiting,have a look at this.

rosewood bits boxes.skp

I hate dado set ups on small machines. I hate the whooshing sound they make as they take my arm off.
I'm gonna have to look at your idea, esp the screw fine adjuster, cos thats where it all happens.
How would that work exactly?
baz

do you ever sleep?

@dave r said:

Very nice work.
Do you make many grates?

hey dave, thanks.
Probly 20 or so over the years, not much call for them, I've seen a few butt joint versions, which are slower to make and require less skill but will probly outlast the owner. Oh well. (I always give a lifetime guarantee. Yours or mine?)
But, this great/grate jig is a bitch to set up, though once she's good, no worries.
I'm curious as to whether you think it's improvable?

baz

'When all else fails, play' (sorry)

hi all, I havent contributed much to the woodies forum, (but i do lurk a bit), so I thought I'd share a couple of jigs which I find indispensible.
the first is for making ships grates, the second for perfect mitres in small stock.
Baz

ps: found the plane at the warehouse.

crosscut jig.skp

donkeys ear.skp

@didier bur said:

Hi,
You can also try Dialux (freeware)
http://www.dial.de
Export your SU models to 3DS and here you go.
Regards,

Thanks for the link Didier, I will have a look.
baz

@solo said:

Baz, sorry for being off topic, I just wanted to show you a restaurant chain here in Texas that uses their roof as a garden, a company I previously worked with had a maintenance contract with a few of them.

Hi Solo, that looks good.
Fytogreen do roof gardens as well as the vertical variety.
The thing with the Fytogreen system is the use of a water and nutrient retaining sterile foam which weighs very little which means roof structures etc dont have to be engineered for huge loads. Off the top of my head, a sq metre of fully saturated media with plants weighs 40kilos, a significant weight saving over soil.
baz

If you are interested here are the links:
http://www.fytogreen.com.au/Fytowall
http://www.fytogreen.com.au/roof_garden_systems

@remus said:

With regards to having to learn a new app, if youve already got a bit of experience in rendering you shouldnt have any problems with lightup.

Total experience is a couple of months with Twilight after several failed attempts to come to grips with some of the others. (Kerkythea baffled me and I didnt get much past screenshots with the other ones

But the way this thread is going I might have to bite the bullet with lightup.
baz

@adamb said:

Yes, LightUp will give you amount of energy falling on the surface as well as a pseudo color image which can help quickly identify problem areas. You can get exact readings using the lightmeter inside LightUp.

It won't give you how much energy you need to make plants healthy.

So with a model like that, based in Boulder, CO on 1st December, the wall gets just 0.11 Kwh/meter/day:

whereas on 24th July, it gets 1.27 Kwh/meter/day:

Thanks Adam, it's looking interesting, when I mentioned 'light energy' I meant the actual lights which might need to be installed to supplement the existing natural light.
The usual method, as I understand it, of presenting lux info is to spreadsheet it, ie: four columns dividing the year into quarters, each column showing lux for 2/3 times of day. It would be great to be able to present this graphically as you have shown, but you would still need the numbers. Would this be a lot of work in Lightup?
baz