Posts made by dale

One year, a husband decided to buy his mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift.

The next year, he didn't buy her a gift.

When she asked him why, he replied,

"Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"

And that's how the fight started.....

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My wife walked into the den & asked "Whats on the tv?"

I replied "Dust".

And that's how the fight started.....

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A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.

She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, 'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.

I really need you to pay me a complimentThe husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.'

And that's how the fight started.....

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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.

She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 200in about 3 seconds.

I bought her a scale.

And that's how the fight started.....

Is there a reason why you want the actual program to be on the server? I don't think this would limit you from storing/retrieving .skp files from the server from any workstation.

Yes great work folks, I knew this would be a fun one to watch.

Although the SketchUp version looks pretty brutal it rendered pretty well in Kerkythea.
This was done by intersecting surfaces, drawing a fillet for "follow me", hiding the unecessary, doing a follow me by hand (the old illegal path message if you try the path route).
Could probably get some better results if there were higher number of circle segments etc.
Quite a while ago an engineer I was working with was going over some cad drawings for a tubular steel truss we were working on. I had just started with Sketchup, and had modeled it out, (and I of course thought I was pretty cool being able to show off the model). Somewhere along the way he had made the comment "That's fine but what about the fillet welds?"
Now who wouldn't take that as a challenge. So I went back and spent way too many hours, and eventually made this method work. He got a good chuckle out of it.
I know someone will come up with a way better way of doing it for you, but it made me smile, so I though I'd share.

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One thing I am wondering (I'm still in SU 6 Pro) is if there has been any file conversion problems between SU 6 and SU 7. I have two quite large projects on the go, and really can't afford any problems. Has anyone had difficulties?

Inspiring studio setting

Well, I live on one of the Gulf Islands, and it hardly ever snows here at all. We have about 2 feet now with another foot forecast. The problem is here that nobody really knows how to deal with it, so we just hole up. Rain is forecast for tomorrow, thing could get messy. I took a picture of this deer out the front of the house a few days back, way more snow now.

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While responding to another post on pushing the envelope I recalled an architect/teacher whom I thought you might quite enjoy a look at Durant.

      [http://form-ula.blogspot.com](http://form-ula.blogspot.com)

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Not forums but interesting are:

      [http://archidose.org](http://archidose.org)
     [http://thecoolhunter.net](http://thecoolhunter.net)
      [http://framemag.com](http://framemag.com)

Oh, and if you want an architect/teacher who can't even see the envelope from where he is standing try http://form-ula.blogspot.com

I don't know but if I found it in a paper bag in a department store I'd call the bomb squad

Hear the one about the Termite that walks into a bar and asks " Where's the bar tender"

I got one that said "Faster and Easier", (but unfortunately it was advertising Cinema 4d)

Yes and strangely, just recently.

Damn, I should have chosen eraser

Truckin......

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inferencing
push/pull
scenes

at least for the moment

@dcauldwell said:

Greg

I only recently got fed up with preparing the design in SU only to end up re-drawing a lot of work in a CAD program (I was at least exporting the 2D stuff). I suddenly realised that with better preparation and a more disciplined approach in SU, then I could save myself a ton of work in CAD.

David

I am really glad to see that someone else got tired of the back and forth. I have just reached that plateau, so I appreciate your approach. I also appreciate the kind of cross-discipliness (newly coined phrase) that this thread entails, given that the workflow and might I say "deliverables" that one person in the process provides may be different in the set design arena versus architectural design, but there is a lot to be learned by seeing examples. Plus in the end the intention is to be able to visually express your ideas to others.
I would also like to add one other difficult situation I find. This is mostly based on the way our office functions, but we have drawings done in AutoCad, Vectorworks, and one contracted cad guy even uses Softplan, as well as the napkin sketches. To add to that the boss who uses AutoCad doesn't use it well. Cross platform exports are weak at the best of time, and the time spent "cleaning up" others drawings can be costly.

Thanks for pointing that out. This is one of the first models where I have stamped the building foot prints into the sandbox topography, and when I look closely these are all in areas where the topography is stamped. Its almost like the light is leaking up here. Interesting I'll have to try some tweaking, and see if it changes it.

Second version with additional units.

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We were asked by the client to devise a concept for a multi family housing project, staying within the existing zoning bylaws regarding lot coverage, height restrictions, parking etc, and deal with the site topography. I chose to use a clay render which, I thought, gave nice details without focusing on materials or color scheme, which allows the attention to focus on the clients original wishes.
Modeling in SketchUp (I'm still in Pro 6) rendered in Kerkythea Clay

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