@cphillips said:

Sorry for the late reply. Mac will be supported in the next version. It was supposed to be out last week but I found some problems and havent had a chance to fix them. It should be in a few days.

Any progress?

@cphillips said:

Sorry for the late reply. Mac will be supported in the next version. It was supposed to be out last week but I found some problems and havent had a chance to fix them. It should be in a few days.

Coolness! Looking forward to it!

@rovap said:

Am I being stupid but could someone put a link directly to the latest MAC version of SP 3.1 or 3.2 what ever is latest. I often read the forums and see Mac version coming then the next posts are of people trying to get Mac version to work. However I never see the link or if there is one it takes you to a PC exe file.

Thanks in advance.

Good question. I tried downloading SketchyPhysics3RC1-MacAndWin-Fixed.zip off the Wiki front page, but the newest files in there are dated March 26, 2009, so I figured that can't be right.

Ummmm, sorry, but that's the Batmobile from the Tim Burton films.
This is the Tumbler from Batman Begins & The Dark Knight...

Compare the various movie Batmobiles on this site.

Yeah, I've never been able to make it through an entire book by Bucky (well, except for Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth). His penchant for inventing words and unconventional sentence structure gave me a headache.
I became a fan of his by reading Buckminster Fuller's Universe: An Appreciation by Lloyd Steven Sieden in '91.
Funny thing, I'd been exposed to his works all my life (my 3rd grade class built a cardboard geodesic dome, and there was a dome home directly in line-of-sight from my bedroom window), but it wasn't until after reading the Sieden book at age 28 that something clicked.
One rainy day, I sat down with a box of toothpicks and some Elmer's glue, and made a triangle, and the light went on: "Hey, y'know, you can't make a crooked triangle!"
Then I made a tetrahedron... then an octet truss...
Later, after scouring the used bookstores and snatching up every Bucky book I could find (mostly for the pictures & diagrams), I moved up to tetrahelixes, domes & tensegrity models.
I hung out at the Buckminster Fuller Institute a lot when it was based here in L.A.
They liked my models.
But I was never able to read more than a few pages of Synergetics, Critical Path, etc., or watch more than a few minutes of video of him.

This play managed to hold my attention, since it was largely biographical. The philosophy was boiled down to where it was digestable.

There was an earlier stage production (written/directed by Alice Wilson) with Brad Armstrong as Bucky, that was almost identical in format...

YouTube - Bucky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWEDfSjD5w

...but the Rubicon production (written/directed by D.W. Jacobs) seemed more authentic:
Joe Spano's performance was far closer to the video clips I've seen of Bucky (but in a good way!) than Brad Armstrong's was.
Spano did a great job with the hands-on stuff, too!
Made good use of the dowel & surgical tubing Isotropic Vector Matrix ("Jitterbug"), and also had a jumbo version that he could stand inside of!

Funny story: There was an elderly couple sitting next to me that I had "briefed" about Bucky before the show, with the woman sitting closest. She'd known nothing of Bucky, while her husband had attended Bucky lectures.
When Spano started demonstrating the IVM by contracting & expanding it rhythmically, I whispered "Jitterbug" ever so softly, hoping that the woman heard me.
About 3 seconds later, Spano said, "It's like a jitterbug, isn't it?"
The woman and I turned to each other with huge smiles. Guess she heard me.

TaffGoch, your work with SU truly inspires me, and I thought you'd appreciate this...

I have just seen Joe Spano's astonishing one-man performance as Bucky
Fuller at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, CA.

Rubicon Theatre Company: R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and
Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE
http://www.rubicontheatre.org/season/0708/02_mystery/index.php

Perhaps my saddest regret in life was that I never got to see Bucky
speak in person (I've only seen video... which is better than nothing, I guess!).
Now I feel like I have!

Google Video - Everything I Know - R. Buckminster Fuller
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-938394498520786588

Spano was magical, capturing Bucky's accent & slight stammer and
mannerisms, and the script hit all the key concepts & terminology... I don't want to
get started on all the neat little details.

Suffice it to say that anybody living within driving distance who's impressed by your virtual Dymaxion Artifacts, but not too familiar with Bucky Fuller, needs to see this!

Just when I thought I couldn't be further impressed by SketchUp's capabilities... I see this!
Simply breathtaking!
You've inspired me to learn how to wring every ounce of juice from this program!

When I import a 3DS model, it shows up with all the edges visible, which I then hide by unchecking "Display Edges".
I've turned the mesh into a component and added it to my library, but once I start a new SU file, it's back to visible edges again!
How do I make "Display Edges" stay unchecked for a particular mesh?

BTW, this is my first post here, and I love, Love, LOVE this program!
(The little glitch yesterday with the Update prompt notwithstanding. )
I've worked with Anim8or and 3DSMAX, and this is a dream come true in terms of simplicity!