Hi
I just came across this today: http://www.theprovingground.org/2013/04/announcing-cricket-for-sketch-up.html
I hope it's not an April Fool's Day prank. "...Visit The Proving Ground tomorrow, April 2, for an update on this exciting new tool..."
Cheers,
. Diego .
Hi Majid
I feel your dilemma; having uprooted myself with wife and three children some 18 years ago. At the time - in my late 30's - I left Uruguay; we came to the US and started very much from scratch. Actually, my wife uprooted herself once more before me, she left her home country when she said "I do" to marry me.
The bottom line is, corny as it may sound, home is actually a concept: where the heart is and where you will/can manage to make of it both literally as well as figuratively. All the very best.
Cheers,
. Diego .
Actually, all we have to do is convince Google to support the SKP file-format in Google Docs.
By the way, since earlier this year Google Docs already supports DXF (AWA AI, SVG, PSD and other formats); meaning from SketchUp, via "Save as..." to Google Docs offers a current solution for simple web-based 2D-viewing, i.e without any 3D navigation.
Cheers,
. Diego .
Hi,
For what it's worth, number of years ago I saw at SIGGraph (possibly 2006, in Boston) a development from Caligary's trueSpace, a 3D modeler (http://www.caligari.com/), that allowed people to work synchronously and simultaneously yet remotely on models that lived in a shared 3D space, without recurring to any 'baton-passing'. This shared space was called truePlay and though it didn't have A/V/chat for communication, coordination and collaboration, I saw them using it with NetMeeting - http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_7710.html.
Caligari was later bought by Microsoft and then... who knows but at the very least this proves a point, namely that co-working on a same file was and moreover should be today perfectly possible at least so, with the right tools and in an appropriate environment 
Cheers,
. Diego .
Another trick is to use the Section Tool, as follows:
It's a work-around but it does what's necessary.
Cheers,
. Diego.
Sure Dave, of course you can "borrow", come on over! What you can't is take it
For what it's worth, we have set up at the Boston Architectural College's computing teaching spaces these LCD tablets in two configurations.
In one lab the students have a dual-monitor set-up wherein one is a 12" Cintiq LCD tablet and the other is a regular LCD - the instructor's workstation is equipped with a similar configuration except that the main monitor (which is also connected to an LCD projector) is a 21" Cintiq. In this lab we offer courses in imaging (Photoshop) classes as well as in 2D drafting (AutoCAD 2011) and 3D modeling (again AutoCAD, Rhino, & SketchUp) and BIM (Revit).
In the other location, called the Computation Design Research Lab (CoDe R), we have some additional workstations with each of the two LCD tablets where the mission is to provide our learning community (students and in fact faculty) who're interested in technology, motivated to experiment with or learn about other non-mainstream applications that's not necessarily part of the core curricular experience.
Cheers,
. Diego .
PS Back in 2000 or 2001 I came across one of the first SketchUppers from the @last era; I met and saw Yasser Malaika work the tablet like a ballet dancer - in a smooth continuous process. That gestural approach to 3D modeling was what helped me learn, even love and appreciate the value of SketchUp versus everything else available at the time.
Hi Martin,
is VisMap v3 out? Where can I find it please?
Thanks!
Cheers,
. Diego .
@leedeetee said:
What an unbelievable game that was. Uruguay go through via a blatant bit of cheating, yet Ghana can't capitalise with the Penalty.
Gyan must have balls of steel to take the first peno after he missed with the last kick of the match. And it was a brilliant penalty at that, too.
No idea which way tomorrows Argentina v Germany game will go, although I have a suspicion the Argies will have too much for the Germans. Spain SHOULD progress fairly easily.
Uruguay paid for the 'cheating' with both a penalty and losing a red-carded striker for the next game. Despite their mistakes they move on as one of the top four best teams in the World. Not bad for a small country.
Cheers,
Diego (Yes! Uruguayan)
Check this out, Felix Render is an online system based off of Maxwell - http://www.felixrender.com/
Cheers,
. Diego .
@unknownuser said:
... maybe you want this instead? buy it! now
Thanks Jeff! Yessir! 
Cheers,
. Diego .
Hi Solo,
@solo said:
The problem is most folk had high expectations of a new gadget to replace an old one...
I agree and that's been historically a fine definition for innovation or for any or most new technologies. If your expectations are met, you're of course welcome to it - I'm happy for you man! Mine weren't: the or my problem is I was hoping Apple would address innovation other than it did. The iPad is neither a net-book (in the sense that it doesn't have comparable computational capabilities of the likes of an Asus, HP, or Dell) or a tablet (despite it's touch-functions).
The point remains - Apple has not addressed that niche- they've not yet developed a technology that fills the fine sweet spot between the input/display/comm and then-some capabilities of the iPhone/Touch and the portability and processing powers of a laptop. The iPad is indeed a fine color media-player/comm device but it remains limited (still, IMO) as a tablet-computer. Plus, I'm sure you agree, a Cintiq is a display/input device that requires to be tethered to a computer; these are not comparable technologies. Too bad, isn't it? As I said, I hope for version 2.
Cheers,
. Diego .
I find this new Apple technology quite disappointing.
Indeed like others I was hoping for an innovative small form-factor net-tablet. On the pro and plus-side, no question it's interesting - size, keyboard-docking & Bluetooth are all good. OTOH, its has closed and limited computational capabilities, no multitasking and despite an over-sized iPhone/Touch it offers no support for 'regular' Mac OSX apps. Bottom line for me, I am definitely left wanting and hoping for iPad v. 2.
Cheers,
. Diego .
Ahhh-mazing! Thanks for the great find and for sharing!
Cheers,
. Diego .
Coincidentally, just yesterday I watched the documentary "The Cove". Though it's not directly about blue whales it is related and does speak to how fisheries operate and push the ban. Check out http://www.Takepart.com/thecove and http://www.thecovemovie.com/
Cheers,
. Diego .
Dear all,
when you get a chance do check out this software from NeuroSystems (http://www.neuro-systems.net/home_en.html). This software is being developed by (I believe his name is) Stephan Marty, a spin-off Virtualight developed a while back and available as a render-plugin for the now defunct trueSpace.
We'll have to wait for Substance until the December / January time-frame but the web-site shows promising and quite interesting technologies. Enjoy!
Cheers,
. Diego .
FYI I bit the proverbial-bullet and bought a Magic Mouse. I have a MacBook Pro from last year (i.e. the one that had a button on the track-pad) and run Mac OS X as well as Bootcamp + Windows XP Pro SP3.
So this versus my previous experience, the Mighty Mouse (wireless), the Magic works just fine on Snow Leopard(!) after of course installing the appropriate Apple's update. The drag is there's no wheel-click, which for us it means no 3D Orbit from the mouse. In addition, on the Windows-side (I need to run AutoCAD & am beta-testing Rhino 5) it's almost useless. It does not yet have any of the multi-touch features, it barely works to navigate and single-click (i.e. as a one-button mouse). Ay ay ayyyy! I tried to run an update, and sort of gave up on it.
In conclusion, I nevertheless have high hopes 'someone' at Apple will realize that the Magic Mouse relative its predecessor, the Mighty Mouse, is a downgrade: it lost functionality (the wheel-click) and with it a whole bunch of Sketch-uppers (as well as the Boot-campers) will presumably opt-out. Given that almost the whole top shell is a multi-touch track-surface it shouldn't be surprising they'll add or enhance this ability at a future iteration.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
. Diego .
Bbbbbut, why did you use Comic Sans on the Decision Tree?
Cheers,
. Diego .
