@dedmin said: Is this possible with SketchUP "this" - dancing robot? Or simply scripting Python in SU? Someone has been working on adding a Python layer to SU - but it'd interface with the Ruby layer, so it's slower than using Ruby directly. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/SuPy/

Thanks TIG! I'll try it out (and learn a little more about SU Ruby)

Yes - this guy is awesome! I'm using his dovetails plugins, but only one is translated in English. The angle cut and drilling milling are very useful.

I'll try.

As I sit here brushing of a load of sawdust, I was wondering if anyone has the problem I have with my Ryobi biscuit cutter. When I use the setting for a number 10 biscuit, the biscuit is too big for the slot. I have to cut one slot for a #10 and the other for a #20 to get a fit that will close with no gap.

My "first" render (not exactly, as I have been reading Luxrender forums and I took the idea there. [image: Ggzg_640.jpg]) And I made this experiment for fun (colors are decreased in the rendered result, so is not accurate): [image: Hg2p_animacion.gif]

@solo said: Looks great, what scares me is working with a client on a project and waking up the next morning to find he has been doing many changes overnight. It seems you can undo every change ,and you can give your cliënt differend kinds of rights to colaborate in the design. It looks that it works like in the 3d warehouse ,and in google docs. Check this out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqd5Ellfo04 Bep

Thankyou so much for sharing. Very usefull to me. cheers...Wayne

It seems that even if I choose to apply the report on the selected components it reports all the components. http://screencast.com/t/MzBhMjZmMj

Nice work, guys!!! I had a busy week last wee with a tender so didn't get back to my chair project. You guys are the best!!!

That was good, Andrew, thanks!

Thanks!

Yes, that is what I'm using, but there are always problems.

@dedmin said: @cadward said: Thanks!......I just picked up a copy of 3DS Max Design 2010 ....trying to learn it on my own ......this should help greatly ...now all I need are good resources for the modelling part .... http://cg.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/ http://www.3dsmaxtutorials.net/ http://www.creativecrash.com/3dsmax/tutorials/ http://www.3d-tutorial.com/tutorials.php?cat=7 http://tutorialoutpost.com/tutorials/3d-studio-max I would highly recommend these guys. http://www.go-2-school.com

Thanks for the post.

Is there an MSI version that I can use to push out via Group Policy? Thanks, Lindsay

Copy/Paste this code into the Ruby Console to rename all of the model's definitions, with 3 characters off the end of their names - change i=3 to another value as desired... m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('chop defns',true);c=0;m.definitions.each{|d|i=3;n=d.name;(1.times{n=n.chop};d.name=n;c+=1)};puts"#{c} definition-names chopped.";m.commit_operation; Or use this code to strip 5 characters off the names' beginnings - again edit i=5 as desired... m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('trim defns',true);c=0;m.definitions.each{|d|i=5;n=d.name;n=n[i..-1];d.name=n;c+=1)};puts"#{c} definition-names trimmed.";m.commit_operation;

SimLab released today a new solution for importing SketchUp models to 3DS Max. the plugin is free for none commercial use, and it works with 3DS 2009 and 2010 (32 and 64 bit) The plugin can be download from Sketchup to 3DS Max