I narrowed it out to Turbo Mode being enabled in my BIOS. Apparently anything over the rating on my CPU will crash D5. It's the only program that's causing this. This actually happened about 3 years ago. I had to figure this all out myself. D5 should be designed to run without making these kinds of adjustments. Like all software.

@Rich-O-Brien said in NEW Forum Software Issues:

@Gus-R said in NEW Forum Software Issues:

@gullfo Rich, when can we start filling up the suggestion box? I only have two things.

Be gentle Gus. Its been a huge undertaking to get the old content into this newer system.

I'd love if users just poked around for a few days to see how it works and feels.

But if you see or experience a genuine system error or unusable feature let us know.

You can put them here as I subbed to this thread

Everything is working fine but the only changes I would like to see is a dark mode and larger text/font on the right side bar. It's too small for my vision. Larger font there would be more important than a dark mode. Although the stark white is kind of hard on the eyes too.

@Mike-Amos Jason Bourne is living there for at most a day.

It's up!

Got the word just now from the author, J. Leibinger.

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@L-i-am Yeah. Nothing fancy. Took me a couple of hours. Getting ready to go wherever I go at the end of June. Need the money. I'll probably use this to get a year's subscription for SU. I went on the monthly plan and now they're going to start charging $100/month for that.

Another update!

Added/created: window wipers; 27 point connectors in front (the red and blue plug covers); window wind screens; window shade (still working on that); new decals in front of hood; fuel cap texture; manufacturer plate; tool box on side finished; door latches at 600 volt access panel; weathering; etc.

Also changed the gray to a lighter gray. I have to add the walk in front with chain and latch; some hoses and a valve for air brakes; etc. Train signal by others and the two figures are from D5 Render. Otherwise I slogged through almost every single piece of this model.

I tried to find reference drawings for most of it including blue prints for the trucks which have to be upgraded to a later model. Some things like the window shade apparatus and the tool box latch I had to do my best guess at the design using some fuzzy images.

@L-i-am Jason Bourne from the series of movies. He's hiding and on the hunt by the CIA and other sinister characters and often ends up in hiding at a house like. Or in the mind of us Americans, a European house. I suppose it is possible that Bela Lugosi could have lived there too. Bad Bauhaus (Peter Murphy) pun on my end.

Looks good. I'm installing SU 2025 right now. The migrate plugins plugin is working away. I like that feature. We'll see how this works.

For several years I was using Acme Brick's texture program but that required manually creating a seamless texture by changing a few brick modules. I discovered that it's been updated to an online seamless textures generator which works really well almost instantly.

You find that here: Masonry Designer | brick.com

The seamless textures can be generated under Save: Seamless Tile. The rest is self explanatory.

@Gus-R More updates. Made that chain. Ended up using Profile Builder since Tax Engineering wasn't working out for me. I'm sure it's much easier in Blender but I don't see the point in going that route. Also some snow and a cliff in the background. I have to make those gladhand connectors and hoses for the air brakes in front as well as the manual brake wheel in the right rear of the locomotive.

Did you know the EMD SD-45 weighs 368,000 pounds? Like most freight locomotives the underframe is massive which I learned from modeling it. Gladhand connectors are like what you see in trucks connecting the air to the trailer.

@Mike-Amos Looks great except I'm not sure about the psychedelic utility pole and the power supply going into the front of the house and porch.

Use a regular arc and Taper Maker plugin.

I exaggerated the diameter difference for clarity.

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@fredep57

Fred,

Are you familiar with manufactured steel buildings? A good general knowledge will help. If not you can look up the general components of a steel building. You can find some information here.

It's laid out on a grid usually in equal feet. The rigid frame is basically like a wide flange beam with an angle. The center web is basically and extruded rectangle and the flanges are extruded rectangle. You don't have to mess with that when starting out with Sketchup.

Use that sketch, scale it and start tracing from there. Work to scale whether it be in feet or centimeters. Use a known unit.

I never designed any myself but drew countless foundation plans for steel buildings like this including elevations and site plans.

Here's some more information.

Other than maybe adding a few more minor details I'm close to done short of updating the truck. This is my first try more or less of adding weathering using decals and even picked up some nice image to use for decals over at Quixel Bridge.

@Rich-O-Brien I've tried putting in cars in a few renderings before and it's always "lose the car." Same thing with a gas meter I modeled.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Bending plug in:

McTwist

McTwist again like we did last summer!

@Gus-R Here's a more recent rigid frame section sample from my files.

@alvis Thanks!

This needs Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges on the scene. This model is my hot property in my imaginary movie studio.

@Mike-Amos said in The Larner:

@L-i-am

Agreed, has atmosphere and I look for that more than geometrical perfection.

Thanks. The cut grass looked ugly so I went with some wild grass and a meadow scatter with a trail leading to the back. I think weathering of any sort is key. Now it looks like some old guy or gal lives there.