And for the Kids Designer Hsu Wei Chih

This build-it-yourself children’s bike is made (with parental help) almost entirely from a pre-cut cardboard sheet.
Almost all the components of D-Bike are made from reinforced honeycomb cardboard. They are all punched out from a pre-cut cardboard sheet. Parents and their kids work together to assemble the bike, enhancing the parent-child relationship in the process. The intention is also that kids will learn from the assembly process.

Kids can create their own drawings on the provided self-adhesive paper, and stick them on each side of the bike. A unique bike is therefore created. Kids will gain confidence and have fun during the assembly, drawing, and resultant play with the bike. D-Bike is easy and inexpensive to manufacture.

And this type of conversion is made more pertinent with the major storms happening world wide right now. Designer Chen Yu Jung

It is important to promptly and efficiently settle and comfort survivors after disasters. Rely – a foldout sleeping domain – makes things easier by accommodating a survivors’ needs within it.
After a disaster has occurred, refuges and aid centres typically gather the survivors and distribute the required resources. However, the distribution of resources can potentially be ad hoc depending on their availability. Rely presents a survivor with everything they need (bar food) and encourages feelings of warmth, safety, reassurance, and comfort.

Rely contains a sleeping bag and light shelter, a bottle of water, a lighting tool, a stool, tableware, and toiletries. All the components are rolled up into a hexagon-shaped cylinder that can be zipped up and carried on one’s back with the help of straps. The rigid cylinder casing can be used as a sun shelter for the head when the bed is unfolded.

The two ends of the cylinder store goods. On one side, a small storage compartment houses the bottle of water, tableware, and toiletries. When it is turned upside down, this ‘cabinet’ can be used as a stool. On the other side, a lighting tool is accommodated. It can be used as a lamp, and also as a flashlight that is charged via the kinetic energy associated with pushing a button. The lamp can be stood upright on its base. The rolled-up unit is efficient to stack and transport.

The idea of converting one object and its function into another.
Red Dot Award winner for Design Concept Chan Wen Jie, with his "Convertible" stair that converts to a ramp.

Convertible is a user-friendly, dual-function staircase that can be transformed into a ramp.
The goal of this design is to help the elderly, those who have walking difficulties, or those who need to move heavy items in a trolley or on a cart to climb stairs more efficiently and conveniently. It aims to minimise falls and injuries.

Convertible incorporates a simple linkage mechanism system that requires minimal effort to operate, making it quick and easy to use. It is mounted directly onto existing stairs, and makes efficient use of space, time, and money in comparison to the construction of a new ramp. Convertible has been designed for a low construction cost, easy installation, and minimal maintenance.

I agree with mptak, I'm sure that the resort must have accurate survey information. You should approach them, and see if the surveyors could give you digital copies. It sounds like it would be to their benefit.
Good luck

Mike
I was just listening to a radio show about a new development in Vancouver that will offer living spaces under 400 sq ft (just over 37 sq m)This is highly unusual in Canada where people consider 2500 sq ft (232 sq m)small. We still think we have a lot of space to waste.
This style of furniture will be essential in a space this size.
It really requires some innovative design and joinery, and out of the box thinking.

Design is a process, and when a design is well thought out and executed you will see an end product like this that has considered everything for the users it is intended for.
Stephen, well done!
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=436919#p436919

Everything for all the right reasons.Excellent.http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=437371#p437371

Canadian Standards for CMU (Concrete Masonry Units) Metric
http://www.boehmerblock.com/pdf/2D&D.pdf
2D&D.pdf

What a class act. Love to see more, and agree with Mike re: floorplans.

kmead, thanks for this.

Hi Andy:

thank you for the information. It take me a couple of months to learn Vray for Sketchup most learn at the beginning with Fernando Rentas videos from rhino plus the forum before Chaos take over Asgvis. Now we have tons of videos tutorials to learn quickly. The forum is kind of dead after Chaos take over. I still want to render in Vray the buildings and the grass just render in a second render engine and combine all in PH. I do not want to learn a new render engine again, and the option of use fur in sketchup is almost prohibited since it take forever to render. I am still looking for good options integrated to Sketchup as possible so I keep the same viewport.

Kalu. [/quote]

Sorry Kalu, I was under the impression that you were looking for other render engines judging by the title of the post. Didn't mean to hi-jack you.
Cheers

I have sat through a whole bunch of discussion on this. Especially at Basecamp 2010, where John Bacus spent a whole bunch of time going through this and then answering questions.
After this, I am not so convinced that 64 bit will speed things up.
John links a discussion on the Google groups in this posthttp://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=297663#p297663
The other draw back that I have heard discussed, is that there is no mechanism to develop Ruby scripts in 64 bit for SketchUp, but perhaps one of the Ruby Gurus can jump in on this.

Thanks Peter.
This was my entry in the Thea "Seasons" contest. I don't often get the pleasure of just playing in SketchUp, but I made a point of doing it for the contest, as like with the SketchUcation Forums, I want to be a contributing part of another great and helpful community.
Your right, I should add a few ghouls!

Oh Oh, what have I done!
The save as, used to be universal, but now doesn't appear with all applications. Sorry didn't mean this as a SketchUp comment, just one of the changes in Mountain Lion I have trouble getting used to.
I'm quite happy with the way the OS works with SketchUp.

Keea
I have jumped like you from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, and have been using it for about a month now with no glitches whatsoever.
There are a lot of things about Mountain Lion that still have me puzzled (like no Save As), but to date no issues with the transition in SketchUp Pro.
I use SketchUp daily in my work, and have a lot of high poly models.

Here is an example of instancing grass in Thea. The grass may seem a little coarse, but I wanted to turn it into a an old looking black and white photo, so I made it this way.
There are about 4 different grass models from SketchUp made into an instance. The terrain model group was chosen as a canvas, and the amount and type of populations for the instance chosen, and presto! there it is.
It is extremely simple.

If you go to Safari > Preferences > General and uncheck "Open 'safe' files after downloading" , Safari will stop unzipping the files.
cheers

This doesn't sound right. I work well over this file size all the time, although 5 mb of foliage versus 5 mb of cubes can make a lot of difference.
One thing you may want to try is turning on Hidden Geometry, just to see that you haven't inadvertently duplicated something. Other wise, if you can post the file, we could have a look.
Cheers

Simon
Good to have you back. Those retreats are incredible. Kenya under the stars.

Pilou
For some reason the link doesn't work.