Nice work Baz
I wonder if Kim Tolman is still active on the forum.
I took one of her workshops at Bootcamp. She is a professional set designer, and I'd love to hear her comments.

Yes, "Planned Obsolecence" I believe goes back to a fight in the auto industry between Ford and GM in the 1920's.It kind of started innocently, as I recall, with the idea that yearly updates in car models that made the new ones more desirable so you would want to rid yourself of the old one. When that didn't move things along fast enough, they just decided to give their products a shelf life.
Certainly not in sync with any sustainable vision.
I'd love to be able to upgrade my Macbooks. I have one that is 12 years old. The obsolescence here is I can't update the operating system. They get you one way or another.
For me ironically, that works out because If I upgrade the operating system I would have to upgrade thousands of dollars of software, most of which is now subscription only.
I just keep it offline and transfer files to my newer one. I'm sure eventually that won't work either.

Tim Cooks mantra is profit.
He is in a dust up with Mark Zuckerberg over the future of privacy. Cook feel that consumers will pay for more protection. Apple's new operating system allows you to choose whether Apps will share information with Facebook etc.
This is the mechanism by which Facebook makes its profits, so you can imagine how that is going over with Zuckerberg.

Hey Mike
Well stated.
It is also difficult to account for the sustainability and damages inflicted from the composition of the components that are difficult, if not impossible to replace, in the makeup of digital devices.
But, they certainly have made some positive steps, and any steps should be applauded.

Perfect!

Well Fredo you can stamp Solved on this post.
You mentioned trying to slow the speed down, and so I was experimenting to see if that worked. I inadvertently pushed the speed down until it went into the negatives ie: -90.00°/s, and that solved the problem, it switched from counterclockwise to clockwise.
I didn't realize this, so chalk on up to inexperience.
Thanks so much for you help.
Dale

Well, this is interesting. I had intended to render the animation in Thea, and so had created grooves in the "record", to get that detail in the animation.
As it turned out this was a big part of the file size, so I decided to make a record without grooves so I could forward you something to have a look at. When I did the animation with the simpler record, it spun clockwise with no problem.
I had also done a few other things to the model to reduce file size, so I'm going to try the original with just the grooveless record and see how that works.
I will report back.
Thanks again.

Thanks Fredo
The model is coming in too big to either PM or upload. I will try a workaround and get it to you somehow.

Dale

Fredo.... This is such a great plugin.
Just started to get familiar with it.
I am trying to animate a simple record turntable with a 45 rpm record spinning, but no matter what I have attempted I cannot get the record to spin in a clockwise direction(tried rotate as well). I set up the rotation axes on the Z axis first, and then when I go to set the rotation I use the protractor to register a clockwise spin. But the only rotation I can get is counterclockwise. I have tried -360° as well as 360° to no avail.
Am I missing an important step?
Thanks
Dale

A couple of thoughts to ponder.
According to Forbes in 2018:
World Oil Production Per Day - 92.6 Million Barrels
@ 39.4 Imperial gallons per barrel, that means that per year,

Oil 1,179,585,100,000 gallons are produced (Trillion)

Natural Gas 355,000,000,000 cu ft (Billion)

Coal 8,561,852,178 Tons (billion)

These numbers have risen steadily over the last 8 years for Oil, Coal is down to a 1% increase last year.
There is of course natural sequestration of some of this, and not all is put directly into the atmosphere, but is used to produce products such as plastics etc.

I heard a great analogy. If we think of our atmosphere as a glass of water. If you add a little salt to that water, no problem, you can still drink it with no harm, a little more salt, starts to taste, but still the body can handle it.
If you keep adding salt there is a point where the water cannot be consumed without adverse effects to the body. In fact at first you feel nausea, weakness and even delirium. As you become more dehydrated, the coping mechanism fails. If you still don't drink any water to reverse the effects of excess sodium, the brain and other organs receive less blood, leading to coma, organ failure and eventually death.

Thanks everyone for the replies. I realize the way SketchUp recognizes solids means that adding these walls precludes the volume from being recognized in the SketchUp world as solid volumes, but had hoped there was some workaround here.
What I have done is as suggested, modeled 2 separate solid volumes. I'll be talking to the guy doing the energy calculations today. He uses several different programs, as well so maybe there is an answer from his side.
I'm also thinking that just because SketchUp see's things this way, doesn't necessarily mean his software will, if I use a single skin separating partition wall with openings indicated.

Thanks again, and I'll let you know how this works out.

I have come across an interesting problem, hopefully I can explain it.
I am working on a project where we are doing an energy analysis. I have discussed what is needed in terms of SketchUp Model, with the gentleman using the software.
Basically the model will be the exterior skin of the building walls, (exterior only, so no thickness)including window and door openings, connected to the interior skin of the ceiling. (think interior of the drywall).
This must form a true "solid" contained volume in order to work.
No problem doing this until...
The residence has a passive solar sunspace. This space is divided from the rest of the interior of the building by walls with door and window openings, so you can control heat gain and loss.
As soon I put these separating walls into the model, it will not recognize it as a solid.
I have attempted every workaround I can come up with, to no avail.
Attaching a picture of the building, and the volumes formed as described above.
Any suggestions would be greatly and humbly appreciated. Thanks

Still here.
I know I was much more active when I was on an upward learning curve. Used to participate and enjoy some of the challenges, as there was always something to learn from them.
Still a great forum.

Stairs could have a whole thread of their own.

An ad campaign from Wisconsin. Quite winsom, with that Art Deco charm.

That is quite a vehicle Mike. Nice find, and worth checking out.

Lines of Light Hyla Architects
http://www.hyla.com.sg/projects/lines-light/#.WiFoRoW_c7A

Someone had to envision, storyboard, develop, model, animate, and render this.
A lot of talent.
https://vimeo.com/244240061

Hopefully your hospital visits are nothing serious Mike.
Maybe a bit more Design to buoy the spirits.
Fellow SketchUcation member, and a fine set designer in her own right, Kim Tolman, had posted a comment on the following on Facebook, and she kindly sent me the link. Now I can post it here.
This is the Set for the Metropolitan Opera's production of Puccini's Turandot, designed by Franco Zefferelli.
This is not just a drawing of the set. This is a photo. If you go to the link below, it will give you a full Pano view of the set, and the Opera House. It's fantastic.
https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/photos/a.134969600532.229232.20807115532/10159689739965533/?type=3&theater

Stunning work! Just imagine how much fun this would have been to model in SketchUp.

Here's a screenshot from the Pano rotated so you can see the set and the Orchestra pit.

Absolutely right Mike.
I hired a carpenter one time that turned out to be a trained Patternmaker. Before computers and cad/cam he would have been the guy who would bring something like this to life out of wood, so that molds could be made to create an instrument, gear, car part, well virtually anything cast or out of plastics. Of course his trade has gone the way of the Do-Do bird now, and things that may have taken him weeks can be crafted so quickly via computer.
You can't discount a tool with so much power and potential.
Anyway...
I'm posting a landscape architecture design By MKSK who created a series of therapeutic green spaces and respite areas at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
Creating a space like this among all the sterility which is really a requirement in Health Services design is really quite commendable.

So in the world of music,digital has become king. You can emulate most any analog musical sound digitally.
The fact that Yamaha would create a non digital instrument of this complexity, and actually make it sound reasonable just speaks good design.
The fact that they even allowed an R&D team to pursue this is equally amazing.
The Yamaha Venova is a little ABS instrument that has distorted and compressed the airways of the instrument, to emulate a saxophone, and give it the fingering technique of a recorder.
https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical_instruments/winds/casual_wind_instruments/venova/index.html

Quite remarkable really.