http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=45836

That's great to hear Richard, getting your cholesterol right with diet is not only relatively easy but actually very tasty.

I've become a little evangelical about my health, so I won't go on about it here except to say, having grown up as a fat fucker, one of my earliest memories being one of my brothers saying I was so fat I would have a heart attack before I was 8 years old, to now being fit enough to run the City to Surf at 50 is quite a change of life.

And if my memory serves me correctly, you have a flat overlooking one of my favourite beaches, I used to live at Cremorne Point, and it won't be long before I'm back there running on that very beach.

Edit: Come to think of it it was the banana bender who moved, and even put a tie on in his Av, bit late at night and too much wine for me to pin it down.

The trick is to see the right doctor.
For years I've been going to one who kept giving me more and more medication without showing any evidence of any improvement.
When he prescribed anti depressants on top of all the BP Meds, Beta blockers, Diuretics, cholesterol meds etc... I decided it was time for a change.

So 8 months ago I got a new doctor, he suggested a few small changes to my diet, and a few other odds and ends. He never told me to stop doing anything, in fact he said I should continue to have a drink and smoke, but to enjoy each and every one rather than just do it out of habit.

To cut a long story short, 8 months later I'm 40 kilos lighter, don't smoke, drink what I like, eat extremely well and take no medication at all.

Seeing the right Doctor gave me my life back.

@gaieus said:

"length snapping" on under Window > Model info > Untits...

Sorry for nit-picking Gai, but do you mean Units or Mastectomy.

.......and outgrows the desire to play with little boys.

You are working with very small dimensions so snapping will be less controllable.

It sounds like you need to adjust the "precision" and "snapping" in Model Info/Units

If that isn't enough, scale up your drawing and back down again when complete.

and watch more of the videos, far more useful than a dry list.

@emerald15 said:

small question - could someone tell me how to quote another's comment on the forum (ie. so its highlighted in a grey box)

Look to the right at the top of the message and you will see the word Quote, click that and away you go.

It's worth pointing out that a Component would be better for multiples than a Group.

Simple answer, It's too small, scale it up by 10 or 100 and have another go.

Edit, too slow I am.

@rustyy said:

is it possible to make a component not a component?

You can make it a "Group" or you can "Make Unique".

Group makes it a simple individual bunch of geometry.
Make Unique keeps it as a component but a new one so it doesn't alter other versions of the original component, but will alter new versions of itself.

I'll see your Klingon and raise you a Captain's Log supplemental.

@tomot said:

Which raises the question about the the use of termite,

Highly trained Ninja Termites?

For someone playing a guitar in their Av your music knowledge needs work.

Also check with the secondary monitor that you have looked all around, it can be to the left, right, above or below.

One of the youtubes.

A reply that makes sense, some language.

@unknownuser said:

During Series 1 The Ship Factor got some Criticism from the 2 of 3 forums which members asking whats the Point

I would be asking the same thing again.
But aside from that, if you are giving people 4 votes so they can vote for one in each category. then you should make that obvious, or split them or do something.
At the moment you could vote for the first 4, which would be pointless, but then again, see comment above.

Once someone explains it to them a few times.

same time here

Also, as well as being able to scale exactly, you can use the tape measure tool to resize the whole model to a known measurement.
If you know the length of one line is 7.59m then by using the tape measure it will adjust/scale everything to that measurement.

Click at beginning of line, click at end of line, type 7.59m, hit enter, it will ask if you want to resize the model.