Sometimes great Architects are those that see form in order, like Kahn.

Then there are those like FLW, that see form in space.

Alan, Good technique to keep in mind. Especially once the halves are no longer transformations derived from the same component definition. The thought that it's a "Staple" will cause me never to forget this one:)

Just thinking, that fact is, our face in not symmetrical, maybe small distortions will increase a life like appearance.

Not many, 23. But since you mentioned plugins, I looked and noticed that I have some test plugins (plugins that are works in progress). So I removed them, and voila, back to normal. Thanks for kicking my tire.

Dave, Haven't you heard of sky hooks? Darn engineers are always messing with my designs.:)

Will this help you?

Dave, Did you ever try to build any of FLW's furniture?

When ever I double click a SU file, or download by "open file", it often takes forever to open the file. If however, I drag and drop the same file into SU, the time to open is nominal. Any Ideas?

Alan, Any special tips on selecting, and push / pulling vertexes? Especially those that are off-axis.

It is more rewarding to build the whole kitchen first using very simple components for the stuff you will be putting into the model. Once you have it all done, you can then go back and detail each component. The grill component can start out as a box. This way, say you have 10 cups that start out as cylinders. You can later detail one cylinder into a the final cup, and on completion, all ten will be updated.

When has a building been built with walls that are perfect rectangles, and at intended right angles to each other?-)

Tom, Is this a plugin idea?-)

Am I wrong by assuming that you need to look at a monitor to see the model? If so, then this image is misleading.

Good work. IMO the wider, longer views may show too much detail in texture. I always use a real photo to judge the level of textural detail to be shown. Still pretty good. I would blur or dull the images in the pictures, on the tv, and behind the glass.

Sorry, but what is google docs?

Understood, I have never tried to render a photomatch, and my render application will not render a watermark.

Addenda: I was able to build a simple model using photomatch, save its view, render it, and insert the photomatch image into the render as a background image. Guess that is where you are having problems, hope some vray expert can point you in the right direction.

Not about vray, and not sure what the problem is, but the following about photomatch in SU. Photo match is used to place models on photos, not the other way around. If your photo is cropped, skewed, or otherwise geometrically altered, using photomatch is much more difficult, in some cases impossible.

That's rich, oops, I mean funny.:)

There are two kinds of presentations that need to be done, the drawing that is done the night before the client meeting. This is most likely a in-house thing. Then there is the kind of drawing that is used to present the design to the board of directors, or used to market the project to the public, buyers, or some other third party. For ideas regarding this kind of finished renderings, go to a book store, and look up professional architectural renderings (in other media) done by the better offices to get ideas. You got to be reasonably good to sell your skill to an Architect, and his client. The attached render of a building designed by SOM is an excellent example.

My OS is too old for the application.:(

Don't know about statistics, but why would anyone use a render to sell products when they have the product itself? As an Architect, I find rendered models helpful when selling a client, or the client's audience. But if I am after work, photos of my projects are more convincing. It also helps that I use SketchUp in the design process, so that I do not have to build a model just to render it.

However, I don't know about other industries.