Very nice site and the content is even better

I tried your showcase, and while orbiting around a single [small] object is fine, the bigger models stutter across the screen and the walk through feature leaves your camera shaking.

I think you should take some time to finish/improve your product. It's buggy when trying to move and the quality isn't that good.

Just saw this today:

[flash=560,349:xslm0nn2]http://www.youtube.com/v/N6hCwjwzUHg[/flash:xslm0nn2]

http://leapmotion.com/

I've never really been a fan of the 3D connexion mouse, but this seems interesting.
Hope they support Sketchup in their software

I'm going with worried...

Looks to me that this will make Sketchup too specific. Also, as this company is clearly invested with integrating its own software into Sketchup, what will happen to ruby scripts? Do they need to be 'checked' first?

A good time to start practicing with other software, just to be sure...

Ah finally 'found' my model. Setting clip to a large amount and pressing numpad . did the trick, thanks guys!

@unknownuser said:

Try with Collada dae format

I started with that, but for some reason it only shows one component in blender

@lobster said:

Does it help if you change the viewport clipping options in Blender, on the N panel i tnink?

I cannot see your option in the N panel, maybe this screenshot illustrates my problem.

Any of you guys have some experience with exporting big models from Sketchup to Blender?
I tried exporting a model of a building with its surroundings [map of 110 x 170 meters]
as .stl, but in Blender that leaves you with a model that is too big to zoom out properly.
Scaling down the model afterwards will make it 'disappear'

I wan't to see how I can integrate Blender in my work-process with Cycles, but this is
stopping me from doing that.

I believe that the matte black version gives some lag while working on big Sketchup models. Take the glossy one instead...

Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but I would love the option where Styles/Profiles is applied to the whole model instead of every component/group. At this point I sometimes explode the entire model, just to get a nice NPR output from Sketchup.

Also, the option to 'tell' Sketchup which object is on top of the other. This to get rid of Z-fighting and maybe even see through style lines.

Just my two cents

Looks like a user friendly Quest 3D to me. Have to wait till I get home to really use it, as it is painfully slow on my mac at work

Perfect combination between detail and low file size

Pretty sweet I would say

The FujiFilm FinePix S2940 gets some good reviews, only bad point about is that there are quite a few people having trouble with this camera indoors.

An other option is the Canon PowerShot SX130 IS, overall a very good camera. Only bad point about it is that it [supposedly] drains your battery, but this can be easily resolved by buying 'heavier' rechargeable batteries.

Review: http://www.trustedreviews.com/Canon-PowerShot-SX130-IS_Digital-Camera_review

You can go a long way with $200. Did some research and found the Nikon Coolpix S6200.

Here's a review:

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(reviews.cnet.co.uk)

I think that, at the end of the day, I've probably played Skyrim for 12 hours straight

I see there is a significant interest in eastern women

Found out last week that you can also color lines in your model
It even works with custom drawing styles

A bit suspicious as to what the presets do, and if it will be as easy for your own photos.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_sketchup/changelog/4899/

That should do the trick

*aww... beat me to it