As Jerry Seinfeld has said. . .

%(#FF4080)[*it's a good thing we landed on the moon. .. so now we can have something with which to compare all other acheivements.

We can put a man on the moon so why is it so hard to . . . yada yada yada. . .

Imagine if we hadn't gone to the moon. . .

Well, we can't put a man on the moon--so Why should we be expected to do this?*]

I can understand your take on this Fred. . ..YOu let BABIES SMOKE FOR CRYIN" OUT LOUD!!!!

A few years back . . .and I was never in favor of this, even though I do think there should be smoking restrictions. . .anyway somebody thought it would be a good idaea to criminilize smoking as an assault by forcing Some innocent bystander to breathe a smoker's second hand smoke. In a radio debate the prig and prissy Anti-smoker said. . .

"When I am forced to breathe someone else's toxins how is that any different than Union Carbide killing 3000 indians with their toxic gas. ..blah blah blah . .therefore, I should be able to charge taht person with assault"

The smoker on the other side of the debate said. . ."Lady if you can charge me with assault for a brief whiff of 2nd hand smoke .. what's next? Is farting in an elevator ATTEMPTED MURDER?

I laughed so hard I about p**d myself.

i've never been a smoker. . .(I onced puffed at the age of 11--bein' real sneaky. Made me sick. I hated it) quite frankly. . . I never really got it. Remember the old Bob Newhart routine about Crazy Wally? Sir Walter Raleigh--talkin' to the Dutch East India Company? Classic!
%(#8000BF)[*"Wo wally. . you're saying we take the leaves, roll them up in tissue paper, stick it in our mouth. . ..And SET IT ON FIRE??

Uh Wally? Why would I wanna do this? Uh-huh. . .uh-huh. . . .Cuz it is tastes good?"

You call this stuff TO-BAC-C0? And you 've sent us 50 tons of the stuff? *]

Of course, Newhart was a 5 pack a day smoker himself before he quit. Johnny carson, Yul Brynner, Nat Cole, Bogart, etc etc. All died from Smoking. Very sad.

Anyway. . .Thats How I have always thought of Smoking. I jsut never really got it. Why not Just put your mouth around the tailpipe of car or something? The tragedy of smoking is that we've know about the dangers since the sixties and yet I see young people more and more doing it--despite all the knowledge that we have gained in the past 2 generations. I understand how addictive it can be tho, so I applaud those who can quit. For your Daughter's sake.

Coincidently, I was just about to suggest (request) this ruby and then I found this thread. . .

--I used a Plugin (lisp routine in AUTOCAD) that did the same thing. Where it came in handy was when you divided a line, say for a window placement and then you could click "dof" double-offset and it would let you offset on each side of the line a certain distance and erase the original line. I always thought this would be useful as well in SU. (Maybe with an option to leave or omit the original line). So if someone is able to take this one on, I would find it very useful and would appreciate it.

Thx,

David

thanks. I am going to play around with it aswell. See If I can't some of these "Dali-esque" Intestinal images that you guys have succeeded with!

There's good English!

Man. . .this is amazing stuff. Did you just make the model by using the PP in any direction ruby and then SubSmooth?

Awesome.

D

WOW! thanks for all the tips. TUBEY really isn't the issue, but the gist of it is trying to draw the lines correctly--i.e. arcs and stuff--off-setting them to give them some width. Cut out the negative space and then PUshPull to give it overall thickenss. Then I thought maybe using FDD to curve it. But I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

Thanks again for all the insight.

D

@tig said:

If you weld lines into a curve there's no guarantee that that 'curve' will have a 'centre' at all (draw some connected lines and weld them into a curve - where's its centre ?). So, if you have an exploded arc don't weld it back into a curve (an arc is a curve but a curve isn't an arc): just redraw the arc and then it WILL have a centre...
The following are different animals...CenterPoint marks the 'centre of gravity' of the selection.
My CenterPointAll marks the centres of all selected objects individually.

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Understood, hence the question. However this CenterpointALL sounds intriguing. WHere does one find this?

thx

Im not really a newbie, but I figured this was the best place to ask this question. what would be the best way to model this in SU? I am thinking of Just drawing it in 2D with arcs and stuff and then Tubealongpath.rb but it also Curves slightly.

Help would be appreciated.

Merci.

David

Here's a problem I have. . ..If you create an ARC with the traditional Arc tool you can righ-clk on it and use the ARC CENTERPOINT rb to find the CENTER RADIUS Point of the arc. Very useful. I like that. BUT. . .and Here's the big BUT my friends . . .if you make an arc by stitching segments together via the WELD.rb and try to find the center point--you dont get teh option of using "Arc Centeroint" ruby, so I tried using the Centerpoint Rb. only finds the centroid of an implied closed figure as it were rather than the desired Radius point. Any insight you gurus could give on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thx,

Dl

I heard about this morning on NPR. The video is cool. The music was a bit over the top. Sounded like the soundtrack to King Kong.

They say it will be powered totally by wind to keep it off the grid. I'd probably get nauseous up there. But I dont have to worry about getting up there. Starting price. $4 Million. And I thought the Revolving Restaurant up in the Space Needle was expensive!

They did it first you know!

that is truly amazing. This is one I would definitely love to have!

Thems Fightin' words Sir. If I challenge you to a duel, Chuck Norris acts as my second.

@daniel said:

Does fire qualify as an invention? Or is it really a discovery? It does occur naturally, after all.

Yes. . .Yes it does. I invented it.

1. chocolate

2. And then the wheel, Fire, Language, the Printing Press. . .yada yada yada. ..

Gimme the Chocolate.

Temple Square, Salt Lake City UT
Church Office Building. Physical Facilities Dept
Architecture, Temples and Special Projects Division

Here's a view out of my window.

at Christmastime that is!

To UTiler. . . .

Thanks. Phoebe is a great dog. The Dub is not mine. But she is a dream I hope to realize. That one is a 56. You can tell from the Front Turn Signals.

Pav. . .I love WV's. I have about 75 of them .. . Hot Wheels and Corgi Toys. Someday, I will own the Perfect Classic VW Vert.

My family .. .my kids. . .although those are obvious.

Phoebe the Wonder Hound
And of course my wife, but She would kill me for posting a pic here.
cool Architecture
CLassic VW bugs. . .

There's just so much . ..
So little time.

I am reminded of the wisdom of the Great Ralph Wiggam. . .

Me Fail English? That's Unpossible!

I get my Father's Day Gift tomorrow. My daugter comes home from Italy! She has been in Sicily for 18 months serving as an LDS Missionary. I am so excited. My son leaves for Russia in 2 weeks as well to serve for 2 years. Happy Father's Day to ME!!!!