I swear I took a million photos, at least one of each person. But as I'm going through them, I see that I missed a LOT of people that I thought I had. ALSO, name tags?!, worthless. They are all covered up, turned over, or taken off. almost every one of my photos has no visible name tags in it I was really counting on those to help me rememeber names. So a HUGE apology to people whose names I've forgotten - many of whom I spoke with at length about SketchUp or life or anything in between. Day 2 photos are currently uploading, I'll post them shortly.

Well, Chris: It was an interesting approach to the project. No reason why this technique could not be used in a presentation in the right circumstances, with a few more frames dedicated to flesh out the ideas. Very creative. I took a Landscape course one time that dealt with methods of presentation, which was more geared toward advertising art, since we were required among other things, to promote common products, such as steak sauce, beer, and so forth. We took these concepts forward with several small landscape sketch projects. Very enjoyable course.

@dan rathbun said: also.. printf "%04d%s\n" % [i, name] is adding an extra operation eval that's not needed. Note to self: % is a method of Strings. Thanks.

@thomthom said: And it really is counter-intuitive the way Ruby 1.8 works. Agree! .. but at least they revising Ruby to correct things the way they should be.

@chris fullmer said: I've used both [hashes and dictionaries] before, just never really enough to feel like I know what I'm doing. Crash course in hashes (a very useful tool to have at hand): A hash is a dictionary and vice-versa. They are sets of key/value pairs. An array is one form of hash: arr[0] = 'fred'. The key is zero and the value is 'fred'. Arrays are commonly restricted to integer keys. The term "dictionary" is commonly used when the keys are single words. dict['name']='fred'. Ruby makes hashes dead simple (though only a devout Rubyist could love the syntax): [image: 3x9H_Ruby-example.jpg] In JavaScript, both objects and arrays are hashes: [image: Mn9Q_javascript-examples.jpg] The last example shows that the key need not be a string. (True in Ruby if you start with a hash: h=Hash.new() or h={}.) The key can be virtually anything. I'm using SketchUp ComponentInstance objects as keys in the stuff I'm doing today (trying to get a lot of things moving all at once). In Ruby, an array must be indexed by number. A hash may be indexed by anything. In JavaScript, an array is really a hash, which wins the flexibility prize but you wouldn't enter them in a race.

@thomthom said: I take a few extra lines for readability any day. True, but "squish-the-code" is a fun exercise and I often learn something new. def xis(a);a.map{|e|xis(e.explode)if e.respond_to?('move!')};end (assuming no one has added move! to any of the built-in classes!)

Chris, We are a full service AE where I work for(http://www.lrkimball.com) including LA services within the Architecture Division I am a part of. We have migrated Architectural and Structural disciplines to Revit, and are slowly trying to drag the MEP disciplines. We have looked at the limited Site / LA tools within Revit (and the new Eagle Point add-on) but have decided to wait until more appropriate tools and conten are available. We currently use Civil 3D for our LA people in-division, as well as for the Civil / Survey / Highway folks in the other divisions. There realy isn't any comparison between the 2 for LA function right now, even with the enhanced topo features reportedly part of the 2011 release - which is due any day now. I will have to look for the link when I am back in the office, but I did see a reference to Autodesk now starting to seriously consider a Site version of Revit that would include LA / Civil tools. It will be great for the entire project teams to be working in BIM, but I wouldn't anticipate it all that soon considering the monumental task it will be to create the corresponding tools and content required. As a lomg range strategy - it probably wouldn't hurt to get some eposure to BIM in general and Revit more specifically now. It IS a whole different approach and mindset though - which some people admittedly have a very difficult time transitioning to. Hope this helps! Dean

Hi Chris This plugin is great! Thanks so much for writing it. I was wondering though if there is a way to make the imported pointcloud match the model, instead of pasting the model into the point cloud. I have found it nearly impossible to match large models to the point cloud. A easy way to do this would be to make the camera data align with the existing models axis. If you can alter that, I would find this plugin endlessly useful. Thanks again.

Chris, Have a look at the film and stage plugin - if I remember, there is some code in it which might be useful.

I also discovered that if I then choose to edit the photomatch from the SketchOver dialog window, I can right click and choose "Cancel Photomatch", and that will erase the photomatch, but leave the camera in the correct position. So then I just created a new scene right there, and it worked just how I wanted. After much work. Chris

Hej, Where could we found an updated version? clf_repeat_copy itsn't working in SU 2018 or newer.

Chris, depending on how old your Nikon lenses are, they should still work with a modern dslr body, you'll just loose AF and perhaps aperture control also., you must also take into consideration that the focal length will also change, as most sensors are not full frame (35mm), and therefore there will be some multiplying of the focal length (x1.4 or more). Canon changed the mount when they switched over. The new Canon bodies are good (but I find them a bit too big for my liking). I use a D100 and a D300 at work, and I also have a Lumix G1 and a Lumix LX3 compact- both are very good, but if I had the money, I would have gone for the Nikon D300. The Nikon is also pretty quiet in operation too, and handles very well.

Just wanted to make sure - some times something appear to work - but later turns out to be very wrong.

Yeah, I'll do it when I get home tonight. For the most part it seemed to work and now the songs are organized how I think is most logical for me. It was not, however, an entirely logical process to figure it out. So give me a few hours and I'll post it tonight PST. Chris

You, Sir, are a master! Keep on.

Love those pictures in Jar, what a nifty and creative idea. I too gave some of my clients framed Sketchup images of their homes, as gifts this Christmas.... They were gobsmacked with them. The best gifts one can give, are alwaysthe ones we make. :O)

@chris fullmer said: AND 3rd aprty renderers do not appreciate the 16th element of the matrix being anything other than 1 also. So they often freak out when they come across these face-me's that have been incorrectly scaled. Previous version of VfSU didn't like that type of transformation. The new one seem to deal with it properly. @chris fullmer said: Yeah, this was a fun bug to track down Obcurity - thy name is SketchUp!

Hi Chris, thanks for the clf_notes:-).