Made my day!

@dale said: What a beautiful house, and I really admire your attention to detail, but given your background in computers and code, I'm sure detail is second nature. That and being borderline sociopath/obsessive-compulsive… For anyone else contemplating their own build I'd reiterate that obsession with detail thing; so many contractors are happy to let precision slip because it's just a job to them, day in, day out. If you show them the potential for making something nicer than they usually get to do, take part in the process and the work, turn up with enthusiasm every day, then it is amazing how much harder most of them will try. Details matter during the build, after the build as you live there and later when you want to change things. It's also good to live on the Fine Homebuilding website for a year or two to learn (at least) the words and phrases that communicate some knowledge of what you're up to. Better yet, you're likely to know something new in the field that might interest your subcontractors. @dale said: Oh and I still consult for a Nanaimo Company, and do make it down to the Island from time to time. Maybe we can meet sometime, and I can buy you a beer. Cheers Nice idea Dale. Sounds like a plan… Oh, and @dale said: Since I haven't been on the tools for 7 years or so, I got lazy and figured out the compound miters in Skp. I can't count the number of special printouts I did from the SU model to illustrate a detail of the roof decking angles, or rafter tenons, or electrical layout or, or, or. Invaluable.

And if you haven´t done so already, check out this thread http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=486

@solo said: Csaba, very true, in fact I recently did this with a person you know (no names mentioned) who has pretty much spammed FB with their SU related product, it got so irritating that I could no longer handle it and worked against that person IMO. And I think this will get even worse and become more evident when they are using software that auto posts to a bunch of different networking sites at once.

My kids spend hours playing the game. Looking forward to the IOS version so they get off the home computers. It is very basic but they spend an amazing amount of time playing it. Very basic graphics. One of the same kids obsesses over Xplane mods where the entire plane is modeled down to the operable ashtrays...

Nice idea but you'd be constantly wiping fingerprints off of every surface - and just how much power would all that eat up?

That is amazing.

Fixed Found a older SketchUp 7 Version buried in my Library folder. Removed it, and there was V8.

Thanks for the kind comment Roger. Rich, Thanks also, and here is the raw SketchUp. There are two photo textures that are visible. The outside scene is a png billboard, and the wall hung tool chest is the famous Henry Studley chest that was originally a back cover for Fine Woodworking in July 1988. It is a woodworking masterwork, and I placed the texture there to see if by applying normal, and displacement maps I could make the chest seem as if it were a real tool chest hanging on the wall. I am still experimenting with maps to try and get more depth. I'll post the results if they work out. [image: tkC9_Workbench.png]

pretty interesting introduction... but pay attention at the license terms! Not so friendly as the website. I left the executing and removed it

It's a genuine move forwards so post away imho. A humdrum topic but if we are going to be serious about caring for the planet, a vital one. Proper stining if we get it wrong too........

@jim said: Dale, you can select a version when you use "Save As" Thanks Jim ... Now I can add this to my "Why I'm dumber than a Hoe file" Honolulu I was quite surprised at the changes that Collada made as I hadn't really heard anything bad about it. As for dxf/dwg I'v always fought with this format.

Then for fun rotate and pan again, while it is rendering. Move outside, make it a little earlier in the morning. blink... and. This software is amazing. (These last ones are a little grainy, I only let them render about a minute or so, then started playing again) [image: 13Lw_F3.png]

Beat ya. (by one minute) http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=30365

Well that's what kind of started this was Eric's topic http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=260879#p260879 And I know that if I could see peoples avatars at base camp I would certainly recognize them over just a name tag. Interesting that now there are two avatars modeled in SketchUpand rendered in in Twighlight

Absolutely stunning and varied work. Congratulations to all. Thanks Ronen

Thx for the precisions