@tadema said:

Hello Axeonalias, your completely correct I never noticed. I have no dimensions to work from only old pics and you sometimes get so ingrossed you can't see the trees for the woods.

Sometimes you can get real close by taking an entry door, which in a lot of cases is a standard of 36" x 80" and using that to scale close. Same with standard window sizes. It's a little harder on windows on those older buildings, but the door standard seems to be more consistent.

It helped me a ton when modeling Carnegie Library buildings.

@unknownuser said:

How about building a model on the ipad first.
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I am building this PA-28 161 on an ipad using SplashTop Remote. It seems a bit weird that it works so well...I have had no problems building so far. I miss the center mouse button but the "O" shortcut works fine. What a laugh!...an Apple front-end over windows 7 running Mac software...seems the best of all worlds at the moment.

I have been slowly moving my office on to the ipad. The modeling was the last part of the puzzle but as it stands the desktop is sitting in a corner with no visitors. As long as it is on I am in business. The Piper is for a customer who is going to repaint in the spring. We will paint up this model a few times to pick the best design.

I have been involved in testing the ChromeBook and Chrome OS, and have heard remote desktop apps are on their way. I'm hopeful in being able to do the same thing you are doing on the iPad, but in a Chrome OS environment. I'll post up more, once they have something going.

@krisidious said:

@jaxcoffee said:

If one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to worry about. I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.

And you?

then put a webcam in your bathroom... and you might want to look at some of the totalitarian regimes of the past, they used the exact same line.

Oh please! Mean ole Google.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard "Oh be aware!: Their watching you have sex in your backyard using Google Earth!!! Give me a break.

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

And you?

@unknownuser said:

I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.

That says it!!

Yep. It's been quite interesting how this same topic has come up in testing the Chrome OS and Chromebooks that Google has handed out for testing.

Big questions about feedback and Google tracking usage. It's been kind of sad how fearful people are about all of that.

Financial information, I understand. The rest is paranoia.

If one has nothing to hide, one has nothing to worry about. I could give a rats ass who or what sees what I do on the net. I have nothing to hide.

And you?

@unknownuser said:

It begs the question, 'what were you searching for in the first place?'

My guess would be gifts! For himself! LOL!

@prismcnd said:

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Maybe the extra crispy burn unit?

@chris fullmer said:

I don't know, but I have very high hopes

Just got my chrome os notebook yesterday, and am test driving it now. I don't see being able to model with it, but it sure is cool for communicating, and the os has great potential. No apps for Google Earth or SketchUp for Chrome os that I have see yet, but if I do, and I have certainly started asking questions along those lines, I'll post it here if anything comes up.

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

Aha. Sorry. I saw that but didn't know what it was exactly. I'm a Windows person. =P

really? well, it's version 10 of apple's operation system.
the sub-versions are named after cats (jaguar,panther,tiger, etc.)

That's known as the pussy factor. Very important you know!!

I believe a better use of time is getting involved in the help forums. It's truly amazing how much you can learn from reading issues that people have with utilizing some of the internet tools that provide help forums, and seeing how those issues are addressed by more experienced users.

I would encourage anyone that has the time to be on Facebook to use that time to maybe contribute some of their expertise in helping others that don't have as much experience.

Between SketchUp, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Places, and a number of many different help forums, there is plenty to do, and many that could use your help.

@honoluludesktop said:

Don't know anything about FaceBook. Is it about people, or topics? Is the only hassle with forums, registration? I can check out a forum before joining, but don't I have to join FaceBook in order to find topics? Any help is appreciated.

Facebook! Designed to suck the hours out of your day. Don't need it.

AH! What about street view changes and historical imagery? Everyones's talking about trees, I think the other features are very cool indeed.

@gaieus said:

Jax, and how about my model and collection? That model is 1.5 ys old and last updated in last May.

Sorry Gaieus,

I hadn't had a chance to look into what issues your were talking about. I was concentrating on Lee's issues. What is it that your experiencing?

@leedeetee said:

@jaxcoffee said:

@leedeetee said:

Thanks Gai, I'll have play.

I just wish I knew/could understand why it won't work like it should do, as Jack's obviously does.

Cross Alantic shout to Jack!!!

How long has it been since you created the collection, and uploaded models to it?

This morning .....

I can't think of anything else that would cause the KML file not to produce. Giving it a day or so to migrate in would be my only suggestion.

@leedeetee said:

Thanks Gai, I'll have play.

I just wish I knew/could understand why it won't work like it should do, as Jack's obviously does.

Cross Alantic shout to Jack!!!

How long has it been since you created the collection, and uploaded models to it?

@leedeetee said:

As ever Gai, thank-you, I will have a think and investigate my options.

Hey Lee,

If your models are in a collection, it will create it's own KML file called Placemarks. Click on View in Google Earth off the collection and save the file to your desktop. Double clicking on that file will open it up in Google Earth.

Once it does, you can right click on it in Google Earth and save it as a KMZ file with what ever name you want.

Then you can import that KMZ file into My Maps, and the end result is something like this.

http://goo.gl/uBBKc

Who are you trying to kid Lee. You have always done nice work, and this is no exception. Nice.

@bob james said:

@chuck vali said:

If you don't have either of these other plugins, could you temporarily rename your "Plugins" folder to something else like "Plugins1", then create a new "Plugins" folder, place only InstantRoof in that folder,and restart SketchUp. If the script works then we'll know it's a conflict with some other plugin.

Chuck

As I recall it, there is a set of plugins that mustbe in the plugins folder: I don't believe you can, in this case, have only InstantRoof by itself.
Sorry that I don't recall the required minimum set.

I actually did what Chuck is instructing to do to find out the conflict with LightUp. So you can have only one plugin in the plugins folder and have SketchUp work.

@solo said:

On Monday facebook will be launching email.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/12/5455230-facebook-launching-gmail-killer-on-monday

Oh good something else to watch suck the hours out of everyones day. What a waste!

@chris fullmer said:

@unknownuser said:

I guess that what one should expect in the US today, when the most trusted name is news is a comedian.

We are talking about Stephen Colbert, right?

I thought he was talking about John Stewart.