That's cool. Well, I won't be getting any work done for awhile now. I'm going to be playing with this instead.

Hi Dave, In the vieo driver settings you should set AA to be controlled by the application (i.e. by SU in this case). However OpenGL settings will only affect the screen appearance of the model what's more, the lower AA settings you choose from the OpenGL settings in SU, the better performance you may achieve with bigger models (although as a woodworker, you may not have extremely big and complex models like a landscape designer with lots of 3D trees for instance). The 2D raster export is not controlled by the OpenGL settings but by SU itself. When exporting, you should be able to set AA in the options dialogue. If this does not work however, there must be a problem. a workaround may be what Alan (Fraser) does in practice; export with a higher (say double) resolution and scale your image down in PS (or equivalent) using AA settings there. Actually he prefers this way of exporting / post-processing to straight SU+AA export. However if you export at 3000 pixels already, exporting at 6000 may be a bit too much.

@unknownuser said: Great topic Dave! I also have TBD's Time Track but suffer from not start/stopping it correctly so it becomes a little ineffective due to user error! There are a few useful tips here though which I can try. Dylan, second time today we agree on something. Most of the time I recount the activities of the day and jot down the modeling time.

Thank you very much all

thank you it is interesting.

...Thanks all// happy sketchuping!

thanks for sharing all of these styles, dave. dooby dooby moo....

Ah, nevermind. I went to Smustard and bought it (again?) and this time it works fine. Don't know what the difference is but that's OK. As long as it works, I'm happy. Dave

@mike lucey said: Could come in handy, cheers dave. Mike Hmmm, but where. I still think they are really cool though. Keep it up dave.

I like

Excellent, good for you and SU is just the right tool for this. Looks great.

Thanks Dave and yes, indeed a class A tut!

I can definitely use this! Thanks so much!

Thank you gentlemen. Hot tips? Hmmm....get the chocolate cake with mint ice cream. Much better than the flan. Oh, sorry. I don't know if they are hot tips. I set the focal length of the camera to 75mm, the aperture to 2.8 and because I think the aperture should be polygonal, I set it that way with 8 blades. Don't really know if that makes much difference in this case. Probably not. Just play with it and be patient. Reduced DOF seems to increase render times substantially. Good luck. Dave

Actually, I think I solved the syntax errors but the script doesn't seem to do what I would like to have happen. Thanks anyway, TIG. Dave

Thanks Dave, this works great with an "Arts and Crafts" style design I did a few years ago. Thanks a bunch [image: AC1.jpg]

Thank you. That worked. Cheers, Dave

If you appreciate the complements I will repeat again. A very nice piece of work. I prefer the straighter lines and the strong linen though.

Beautiful Makes me want to build one... I am itching to make some sawdust something bad. I second the sketchy shadows too.