Happy Birthday, Brad.
What's your favorite war movie?

Granted, but personal shoppers do not work for free.

I wish I knew what to tell my family what I want for Christmas (that they could afford).

Nice model, Toby. Thanks for sharing.

Your welcome. Glad I could b helpful. Maybe that should be a request for the next version - a "change insertion point" option.

(insert adjective here) dreams. Kevin's face reddened in embarrassment when he realized this.

Granted, but the effort to hold it in is a strain. Your co-workers enjoy seeing you suffer so and bother you with petty annoyances all day. Finally, the effort becomes too much, and you spontaneously combust. The moral of the story: it's not good to hold it all in.

I wish I didn't have SAD and so introverted.

Meanwhile, in a land far, far away, in the Hall of Sketches, Gaieus is ruminating over his laptop when he is suddenly overcome with a sense of dread. The curly haired Susan Sorgesu sensed something is wrong and asked "What is it?"

Gaieus turned to the Susan and the other members of S7 and replied "I sense a disturbance in the world of SketchUp....one of the forum members is in trouble.....I sense suffering, confusion, and" Gaieus added, his eyebrow raised in consternation, "TEA"!

Just then the wall-sized Google Earth display sounded in alarm, its flashing red light a portent of doom.

Ross didn't get to finish his sentence, for he was interrupted by a figure dropping down onto the deck of the ship, the SS Cinatit. Ross was speechless as he stared at the beautiful chanteuse before him, her shapely body clad in a form-fitting black leather suit, a martini in her hand.

"Hello Ross. Or, should I say, DASH RIPROCK"?

Load your component into your model, right click and select "change axis". After changing the axis, if you look under the "in model" tab in the component browser, you will see your component with the revised insertion point - it will have the same name as the original component followed by #1 (#2, #3 and so on). You can then right click on it in the browser and select "save as" and save it to your component library.

Granted. It has already ended at another location. By the time you travel there and back, it will have already ended where you were originally. So you wasted time chasing time.

I wish I knew what XX9 is. Unless knowing would kill me.

to distract the captain, Kevin the Office Tea Boy (whatever that is) told Ross. "Like this" he said, as he began a one man show of the musical "Cats." Our haphazard hero was very proud of his act, having spent many a night between teas practicing in front of a mirror in his mother's basement. He was eager to impress his idol with his dramaturgical talents.

Unfortunately (or perhaps, fortunately) for Kevin the Office Tea Boy (whatever that is), the spy Ross was more than a tall, powerfully built man who was incredibly handsome. He was also a man of action. Ross could see that the Tea Boy was getting lost in his own little world of tea and questionable theatrical talents. Ross didn't have time for this. He had a world to save. Grabbing Kevin by the shoulder, Ross lifted him off the ship's deck and shook him back and forth as a child would a rag doll (and for the powerfully built Ross, that is exactly what it was like).

"Get on with it, man! Get on with it"! Ross said sternly yet quietly enough so only the tea boy could hear.

After tossing Kevin into the ship's pilot house where Captain Bush was, the incredibly handsome spy Ross listened. Presently he heard shuffling that he recognized as the office tea boy's verrsion of dancing. Then Kevin's nervous voice singing "I'm the good ship lollypop..."

How about adding some Christmas cookies and other such goodies?

I have to agree that organic modeling and the ability to lock a file would be great additions. I'm not too sure about rendering, though. I'd be worried that if too many additional features are added, SU will loose it's easy intuitive interface and it's affordability. It would be great for Google and the other programs to work together so one can import a SU file directly into other rendering programs like Vue and Lightwave.

I think it is safe to say that most people who are "snobbish" toward SU are unaware of it's capabilities. I've gotten more than one "wow, you did that on SU?" comment.

Mirjman, your comments about SU in acadamia are true for all programs. I've reviewed quite a few student projects produced on autocad that were banal because their knowledge of the program was limited.

My clients only see the finished jpeg or the occassional animation, and it's always been positive. I have, interestingly enough, gotten a "snobbish vibe" from architecture students when discussing the programs they use. Very few use SU.

The SCF is GREAT! The newsletter is great. We are all owe you a big thanks to you (Coen)for providing it, and a thank you to Gaius and all the moderators for their continued efforts. I've noticed that I have come to rely on visits to the forum for relief when bogged down with mind-numbing work. Hardly a day goes by I don't visit.

That is beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.

George Bush.

The word "eureka" sprang from Kevin the Office Tea Boy's (whatever that is) lips as he snapped his fingers. "I know someone who might be able to help you," he said as he scribbled a name and phone number on a scrap of paper, then handed it to her. Looking at the paper, Prudence the casting agent saw the name....

Thanks for the reply, Jackson. I am using Vue 6 Esprit - I cannot find anywhere where it defines units - I think that is a limitation of esprit. I've decided to upgrade to the Infinite version (early Christmas present). Besides some extras, it has the option to use imperial units, and to import SU files directly. The problem I had was with some trees purchased through cornucopia3d. They were no where near being close to what they should have been. My logical brain just doesn't understand creating something so far out of scale (and they were SolidGrowth trees, so they had to have used the same program to create them).

Thanks, and fantastic modeling. So many SU sofas have unrealistic square corners.