Great thread, very informative.

I guess I just want to get my $0.02 in as far as my experience with SU and hardware. I'm an old fart that love to game at times and get into some Photoshop and Illustrator but love to create in 3D models in SU. So about a year ago I built a rig that would let me play and work when I needed to.

Granted I've experienced the glitches early on as I was using ATI cards at the time as a matter of fact I'm still using a ATI/AMD GPU setup to this day. I think since Catalyst 9.5 I have not experience any bugs or glitches in fact it's been very smooth for me. I may not run those mega file like you pro but I've had my share of almost mega file with very smooth navigations.

These are the specs of my old humble play/work rig...

MB: Asus POG Rampage II Extreme
CPU: Intel i7 920 D0 @ 4.2GHz
RAM: Corsair Dominator GT (12GB) 2065mhz
GPU: XFX ATI Radeon HD 6990, 4GB, DDR5 (UPDATED 12-11-11)
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDC-2202B Blu-Ray
HD Primary: Western Digital VelciRaptor 300GB
HD Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB (x4)
OS: Windows 7 64Bit, SketchUp 8 Pro
Monitors: Samsung 245T 24" (x3)

Since I game using Eyefinity technology here is a shot of SketchUp at a resolution of 5760x1200. Even at this resolution SU is very smooth.

Hope you guys like it and if you have any question fire away.

Not at all my friend and yes I do live on Guam in the village of Santa Rita, born and raised. Presently I'm a happy caretaker for my mother. Before that I always worked with public relations agency as a graphic artist.

I discovered SU just before it was bought by Google so I'm a late bloomer. I was getting Adobe overload and when I stumbled on to SU and a whole on world opened up for me...I was hooked ever since, thank you Sketchup.

Because of my schedule I'm in hobby mode at the moment but the future is bright right!

Surfing is great, and your all invited.

Note: As a follow up to my specs, I just recently added an XFX Radeon HD 6990 4GB DDR5 to the mix. BF3 and Skyrim looks so awesome.

Gaieus@ Oh yeah! Three 24"s gives me a lot of room to work with. I really don't work at that resolution, I tend to have SU on the center while watching a movie on the left and surfing the Internet doing research, opening folders to the right monitor.

Thanks irwanwr, it was, wasn't it. I'm afraid that with the new crops of PC games recently my heavy artillery needed some air support so Santa's putting some very cool fire power under my Christmas coconut tree early this year.

I can't wait.

Welcome to the forum Bill, it's me Scoob aka Danny over in this wonderful forum. Since I have joined the contest I would also like to invite the gang here at SkerchUcation forum to check it out and if you guys would like to join you are all welcome.

See you their and lets get Sketchuping....does that make any sense?!?!?

Danny

Hi everyone and thanks for all the positive comments. I'm sorry for being MIA for a while but I have a medical emergency with my dad and I'm out of the country right now and can't access my files.

@RayOchoa, No problem my friend, I just have to get back home to do it. Updates soon

@igor, since my last update I have redone the bikes body design and tweaked a few things and it looks a lot cleaner now. I have taken some of your and others suggestions, so thanks. When I get back home I'll post the updated bike.

@lapx, Yes, I created all the components. This is my first bike ever in SU...I guess I just have an eye for it.

Danny

I think that is a little better, you can see more details now.

Click on image to enlarge.

I'm no motorcycle engineer this is just what came out of my imagination so if you see a few design boo boos I did it cause it either looked good or I'm still working on it.

I'm working on that right now, as you can see I'm still getting a grip of rendering but I think I'll get there with some help from you good people.

Thank you for your comments, still a WIP I'll fine tune this bike although I'm still learning my way around KT... I have a long way to go yet.

Here are a few closeup detailed shots.

In this pic I integrated the "Stop" and "Park/Signal" lights right in to the tailpipes......smooth ahhh!!!

danny

Thanks guys, the SU side of things was easy enough but I think I have a long ways to go with KT. The rendering was to be set in a SEMA show case scene display hence all the "Bling".

Here are a few early test renders with differant color and background.

The bike in SU

Renderded in KT, no textures add yet.

Cue music of Comaro (Bubble Bee) enterance from the Transformer Movie. Full textured and rendered.

I'm still learning my way around KT so to all you KT gurus out their your comments are very welcome.

I still have a few more thing to touch up but at least 98% done.