Posts made by dmatho

@urmomets said:

Nice ! Is there a way to download and try ?

Yes, go to the first page, very first post.

Cheers,

. Diego .

... and much like others, I too I pleaded for this a while back

See the rant on, "Visual Algorithmic Design for Design Applications" http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=11074&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=visual+algorithmic

Cheers,

. Diego .

@unknownuser said:

...We use go to meeting ...!

Well then try this out, Fuze Meeting:
http://www.fuzemeeting.com/web-conferencing/comparison also from DEMOfall09.

Cheers,

. Diego .

Hi
I just came across this video/software http://www.gogrok.com/en/index.html from DEMOfall09, http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid24413836001?bclid=41486138001&bctid=41348600001 - and at 1 minute in, they demo a collaboration session within SketchUp.

Cheers,

. Diego .

Sorry I might be late on catching the thread, but how about this two-step process?

1. with the Select tool, double-click on the 'field-area' - the portion of surface outside of the circles.
2. with the Move/Copy tool, displace a copy of the field to another location.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

. Diego .

The process is actually easier done than explained

See attached.

Cheers,

• Diego -

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Erase_extra_contourlines.skp

Sorry Edson, I was distracted and it's my mistake: it's From Contours (not from scratch).

Cheers,

• Diego -

Hi Edson,
The lines need to be turned into surfaces, for which I'd suggest the quickest way is to use the Sandbox' From Scratch... thereafter you can trim away.

Cheers,

• Diego -

Hi
thanks for these. By the way, I noticed #7 & #8 are the same.

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• Diego -

Ahhhh-mazing! Thanks Didier!

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• Diego -

Hi
I too was interested in this and in fact 'suggested' that Google SketchUp should support the SVG format for I/O. I then found somebody has done it for them/us:

http://flightsofideas.com/
http://flightsofideas.com/?p=114#more-114
http://code.google.com/p/sketchup-svg-outline-plugin/

Cheers,

• Diego -

Hi Pete
believe me, I can´t feel your pain but I´m sympathetic to your plight... But, you got away with something which could have been much much worse. The coccyx cannot be reset or fixed, in fact, I know of a woman who had to deliver a very big baby, which when coming out from the birth canal broke her coccyx. As a result 20-something years later her tail bone still faces sideways! You´re indeed lucky your´s is not sticking out, like Man´s lost or wagging tail

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• Diego -

I'd like to share three cents. First, C-A-D, whatever you choose "D" to mean, has not been the same for every one. In my opinion actually, CAD or CADD has always been about "Design Documentation".

Second, at the heart of it computers actually do not yet Assist design. The act of design (the verb) as well as the product (design as a noun), again IMO, still happens and is mostly produced between the ears.

Third and last, there is no 'versus', there is no this OR that. The central issue around A versus B lies in that the prevailing software, whatever that is, has had a different focus, approach and implementation across the lands and through time. "D" has not always been about "drafting" nor has it always been about actually "designing". These are non-exclusive terms. In effect, there are these software applications such as AllPlan, ArchiCAD, Arc+, Architrion, DesignCAD, PointCAD, SilverScreen... some still around since the early days (80s and 90's) with a deep Architectural flavor (as in CAAD) which did do "D" AND also had a rather robust set of modeling features - albeit by today's standards, not as user-friendly a UI and not as organic or free-form. All of these afforded users the ability to create geometric or architectural forms, possessing 2-and-3D drafting-modeling features almost since day/version one; allowing Design Documentation in some way shape, or form, for sure some better or more suitable than others.

Just my 3 cents...

Cheers,

• Diego -

I like 'em apples; awesome ruby too

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• Diego -

Hi Kevin
the first priority is beat Leukemia to a pulp; all my best wishes go out to you, friends and a family. Everything else, dear SkethUpper-friend, can wait.

Cheers,

• Diego -

Signed-up... Seems like a great resource for my students' on-line portfolios.

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• Diego -

I believe this Rome Reborn is a 'publication' of sorts in Google Earth. The actual content was generated as a proof-of-concept with CityEngine, a procedural modeling software from Procedural Inc.

See here: http://www.procedural.com/ and of course here: http://www.procedural.com/cityengine/rome-reborn.html.

Cheers,

• Diego -

@unknownuser said:

... you don't really get much more with the pro version...

Actually, the big differences are in the Export formats and capabilities. For instance, the free version limits image-file types, the Pro adds vector files (DWG, 3DS, etc.). See here in details:
http://www.suwiki.org/suwiki/index.php?title=The_Differences_Between_SketchUp_Pro_and_Google_SketchUp

Also, I do not know if Google SketchUp has a different policy, but in the US, Faculty are allowed (encouraged!) to share their own year-long free Pro licenses with their students. See here:
http://www.google.com/sketchup/customers/edu/tertiary.html

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

• Diego -

PS The price is about right, in U$ the student's year-long Pro license is 49, renewable every year as long as you are a student AND the amount spent is accredited towards the commercial license.

Hi
If what you need to do is edit the data (rather than use the information in the PDF as a backdrop), then you need a software that will convert the PDf for instance into a DWG. The following are the most well known options: AutoDWG, Trix Systems, AnyDWG, AideCAD. They're all for-pay though.

Cheers,

• Diego -

For what it may be worth, I've been using a Mac Book Pro for quite a while, both Bootcamping into Windows XP SP3, as well as with VMWare Fusion.

I run Windows-native applications that require higher-end graphics by booting through Bootcamp (such as AutoCAD 2009), and those that aren't as demanding running VMWare. Of course, I considered the higher end of the CPUs (I believe it's clocked at 2.6GHz) and got it with 4GB of RAM.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

• Diego -

PS Mike, you beat me to the punch, er, reply