Thank you, Ronald!

@bryan k said: Great renders and models. Thanks for the process illustration. Are the textures from Indigo or SketchUp? Thank you. The textures are self-made.

@ely862me said: Btw, there is a small plugin(I don't know its name right now) that will draw helix so you won't waste that much time. Yes, I think there are several plugins that would be helpful here, but... @gaieus said: I mean plugins are great but without learning the basis, one will never be as efficient as possible and once a problem arises, may be just stumped. @Cotty: this helix[sup:1mzq0s1l]helix[/sup:1mzq0s1l] (to finally test our superscript bbCode ) is something stunning! Thank you! @massimo said: Do you know Kito Raupp? Check on youtube, there are many great videos. Yes! I've bookmarked him already

@cotty said: Nice examples of different shadows! One question: is there a reason why the walls in the shadows are not dark anymore when the soft shadows are applied (second image)? We added an option to show shadows on "shadows and surfaces in shade" or "shadows only" Basically, with the second option, surfaces which do not face the sun, and wold not be lit by the sun even if nothing else cast a shadow on them, are ignored for the second option. Here is a Sketchy Shadow version with shadows on "shadows and surfaces in shade". (Also I changed the scale on the hatch pattern to have more white space between lines) [image: bUSj_St-Antonius_Kirche_Bad_Wuennenberg-SKSH-l.png]

I'm not subscribed to anything however - from the mail logs - it appears that emails are sent out. They may be blocked somewhere on their way (maybe even before your spam filter).

Oh cool! That's turned out very nice!

Maybe Scarlett Johansson brushing her teeth just in a towel? It might make it more exciting maybe... Ok, sorry for that, couldn't hold back myself . And seriously - I think, that the lighting on the first picture was a little better. And reflection in the mirror - this is the first thing that I saw - there is no reflection, so it looks a bit strange.

@unknownuser said: Super cool but that select only points! That was the request.

little update... [image: tXlU_f_V3.jpg]

If there is no simple solution, maybe this is a point for the wishlist for SU9?!

Unfortunately Honeycomber uses some pro-only API methods to subtract solids. You could try OSCoolean Boolean http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=112055#p112055 - which works on free. You will need to make a set of smaller solid shapes arranged in a 3d matrix [to form the 'holes'], ensuring that none of them stick through the surface of the original or leave a very thin outer shell - and then subtract those in turn from the original solid [the Outliner might help with these selections ?]. It's more work, but it will do it... There are also some free suitable 'Shell' tools that will 'hollow-out' a solid - look for those in the Plugins Index...

TIG did a fantastic set of plugins, which are the direct answer to my initial question: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=386658#p386658 Thank you very much!

pretty cool

@whaat said: @henyaoi said: Hello everybody. Here is a little example of Artisan modeling from me too, a classic chair model. It was made quite long ago, but I still like it Love the chair! Can I add to the Artisan gallery? Yes, you're welcome!

Yes, and the line is correct: <unit meter="0.02539999969303608" name="inch" /> but I tried some more exports and moved around the geometry to see which entries in the collada-file changed. One line (perhaps something like the origin of the group?) had very small values in the original file: <matrix>2.775557561562893e-015 -1 0 2.314960629921188 1 2.775557561562893e-015 0 -7.105427357595022e-015 -0 0 1 -2.775557561561001e-017 0 0 0 1</matrix> and changed to: <matrix>1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1</matrix> after moving the group around and back to the origin. So I think the problem was not the geometry itself but the position of the group relative to the origin?!

@oganocali said: Actually you can get it almost right in all views if you do view edges back edges profiles set the transparency of the material around 70 % set the profile width from styles to 1 With your technique and the face style "Hidden Line" the illustration is getting better (the vertical hole lines are not dashed...) [image: G4n7_hole3.jpg]

Thank you TIG for this one-liner which shows me that I have to learn ruby...

Thank you for yur helpful tips! It's a pity that this relatively simple action is not done correctly with the native tool, because it will often confuse beginners...

Here is a third exercise (model @ 3D-Warehouse), dedicated to the new SketchUcation layout... [image: 0Dvd_SketchUcation_puzzle.jpg] And a little video with one possible solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U_RJTithw4

You can find the "puzzle" exercise model in this topic: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=41657