Thanks.

How about this?

Can anyone see this image?

Have you started on the interior?

When I first read the topic summary, I thought this would be a discussion on fungus, and architectural trims.

Since retirement, I occasionally watch court TV. Whenever the party the Judge is going to rule against begins their nervous smiles, the Judge will always tell them to wipe the smile off their faces, then bring down the gavel down against them. No nuclear power in Hawaii yet (unless you count the Navy berth in Pearl Harbor), but all of our power plants (at least on the island of Oahu) are next to the ocean, or water connected and close by the ocean. If a Tsunami hits us, those that are not inundated will be without power for a long while.

Mean while more bad news for Japan.

@unknownuser said:

Radioactive strontium detected in seabed

Radioactive strontium has been detected for the first time on the seabed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it found strontium-89 and -90 in the seabed soil. The company conducted a survey on June 2nd about 3 kilometers off the coast at 2 locations, some 20 kilometers north and south of the nuclear complex.

The substances pose a serious health risk because they can accumulate in the bones if inhaled, which could cause cancer.

Up to 44 becquerels per kilogram of strontium-90 were detected, which has a half-life of 29 years.

The substances had been detected before in soil on land and in seawater following the nuclear accident in March.

A member of the government's Nuclear Safety Commission, Shigeharu Kato, says more examination should be carried out to find out if or how the substances can accumulate in marine life.

The fishery ministry conducted separate surveys. It did not find radioactive strontium in fish and seafood samples taken off the coast of Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures. Both are located south of the Fukushima plant.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 08:54 +0900 (JST)

Hi Roger, While I basically agree with you, we know that there is no free lunch. Off the Big Island (the island of Hawaii), some are considering the feasibility of heat exchange in a deep trench adjacent to the coast line. Sounds good, but I wounder about the environmental impact? How is the energy transmitted up the island chain? Is that kind of investment susceptible to earthquakes, and tsunamis? Before we jump, solid research needs to be done. In the mean time it appears that the US at least, might need to expand proven Nuclear technology. In any case IMO we should eventually move off the Nuclear standard, unless it can be made safer, and disposal taken care of.

There is the joke about the first moon lander vehicle, that it was built by the lowest bidder.:) I wonder what happened to Kevin Costner's oil clean up device in the Gulf disaster.

I wounder how much of the technology must be licensed by Adobe, and others in order to be included in products like photoshop?

As far as licensing, do any of you watch "Shark Tank"? There seems to be a question by developers whether, or not to license. Some want to control the development of their product, and choose to forgo licensing, at least for a while.

@plot-paris said:

oh, that is something the SketchUp guys should change for default - the reversing of materials. because I think when reversing faces you (almost) never intend to change the colour you see...

This depends on how you use the plugin. Typically, imported files have the correct texture on the reversed front face. Either way, there is a good chance that there will be faces that have to be adjusted manually. Perhaps this can be a menu selection, however I notice few users take the time to check plugin options.

David, You realize my comment was a lame attempt at humor? If photo real is your eventual goal, what you are doing is necessary. Fellows like me would just lay down a texture, and get back to (as is this case) the interior design. I would ask myself, what a real camera would see, then use that as my yardstick for the floor. Good work.

From what I have seen here, VRay is the superior product in regards to quality of photo real render. As a need it yesterday Architect, I find Renditioner Pro, fast, easy, and adequate. Btw, I do not need to compete with SOM for work.

If on a network, havn't some reported problems with running multiple instances of SketchUp?

Don't have to be worried about falling down with one of these.

Unless except when getting in or out of the cab.

@tfdesign said:

Well I got to give it to you lulu, you win first prize for being the single one man out of thousands on the SketchUcation forum who has truly made....

Thanks, it's not just another pretty face. If you did the calculations, you would find the contaminated water in the building is up to 43,000 mSv.

Yes:) And the joints too uniform, and stright.>_<. Not at all like the floor I once laid myself.

Hmm........What does SketchIt want to be?)

@unknownuser said:

Plant decontamination not working

The Tokyo Electric Power Company is looking into why a system for decontaminating radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is not working as expected, delaying resumption of the system's full-scale operation.

The firm on Wednesday published data showing the amount of radioactive materials that had been removed from contaminated water during a test run of the US-made system.

The data show that density of Cesium-13 and Cesium-137 dropped to only one-100th of initial levels.

An earlier test run using water with a lower density of radioactivity showed a drop to about one-1000th.

The utility had said the system would begin full-scale operation in a couple of days.

TEPCO on Tuesday began reducing the amount of cooling water injected into the plant's No. 1 to 3 reactors and is carefully monitoring changes in their temperatures.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 21:13 +0900 (JST)

Hans, While probably unrelated to your problem, why don't you upgrade to Free SketchUp v8?

Sorry Dave, I would get sick. How about:

SimoN, "Ebben, ne andro lontana" La Wally. Thank you, thank you, thank you; except for Callas, also my favorite, I was not familiar with the others. All of the music brought tears to my eyes. I have four books by Delacorta; Diva, Nana, Luna, and Lola. Nana is hard cover, but except for Diva, do not know of Jean Jacques Beneix's works. I will however look for them.

My Architectural work includes European shops in the Pacific, including Remona, Testoni, Celine, and Etro. The modern world is a very small place, and many books, movies, and music are truly international.

Aloha, hdt