great stuff, alan, the skippy and the box. and your site will be too, i am sure.

também gostaria de saber. quando perguntei me disseram que são os mesmos do outro forum, e que lá estão explicados em algum lugar da página.

i second that most emphatically!

fernando,

o link estava errado, por isso não conseguiste baixar. baixa o pdf daqui.

não entendi a outra pergunta.

abraço.

none that i could identify. but i found an introductory design course that relies heavily on it. check it out here.

paul,

thanks for this tip. this is an amazing resource for people involved in architectural education!

yes, very nice.

it is also very nice of google to throw as a bone from time to time. this way we get evidence that your team is silently working to improve SU.

thanks, brad.

@joe wood said:

Type your first line, then type \n, followed by the next line. When you finish editing it you'll see two lines of text. Go in and Edit one of the lines in this skippy and you'll see what I did.

You can also put the \n in front of a line to drop the line down. I learned this on the original @Last forum. I hope alot of you didn't know this

i must be doing something wrong as it did not work for me. i typed this: 1st line \n second line but the whole thing remained on the same line.

being new to notebooks (bought my first one in july) i wonder what should be wisest procedure in terms of extending the battery life.

in general i work with my notebook connected to the power supply, thus the battery is not really needed when at home or at the office.

question: should i leave the battery on all the time? or should i just install it when on the road?

i would like to hear from you on that.

this is a view of a preliminary scheme that i developed for a lounge inside a clinic, using one of the couches obtained through this thread. thanks again.

@masta squidge said:

@engineeredcupcake said:

They were created to go along with his book, Google Sketchup for Dummies, but alone they are very helpful.

hi jasmine,

welcome to the fold.
chopra's book is excellent and very cheap too, if you buy it from amazon.com. another good source of videos is http://www.go-2-school.com; some of them are really impressive.

cheers.

sorry, gai, i did not remember it. yes, i am on mac but most of my students are not so the script will be useful to them.

thanks.

@gaieus said:

Also Jim Foltz made a ruby that puts location into the free version, too.

do you where can it be downloaded from? i looked for it in our repository but could not find it.

try their site: http://www.nemetschek.net/

have a look at vectorworks. i have been using it since it was called minicad. it is really good and packed with features. much cheaper than autocad, archicad and pthers like these.

it comes with a render module (renderworks) and a fine terrain modelling module (landmark).

good luck.

in case it is needed i have tom's skippy and a hard copy of the main discussions.

exactly. that thread was pure gold. i learned a LOT from it.

@rhankc said:

I havent been able to successfully accomplish this except by starting over. maybe grouping the stamp and then carefully moving it....

i always keep a virgin version of the terrain in case i have to start over.

@jean lemire said:

For a face, extrude to full heigth. Then, select one end face and Copy/Move it to the other end. Then, immediately type /X in the VCB where X is the number of intervals that you want between the faces. For example, typing 4 will yield 4 intervals and you will end up with the two end faces and three faces equaly spread in between.

Just ideas.

this works beautifully, jean. thanks.

@gaieus said:

No, it's not possible.

sorry to disagree, gai. as long as the lines are coplanar and connected, they do not need to configure a closed polygon for you to be able to offset them.