Thanks. Will try that

I created a shortcut (Ctrl+T) to toggle the display of the default tray. SU asked me to confirm since Ctrl+T is used by another command. The shortcut works as expected while I am using SU but it reverts to its old setting when I restart SU. I have successfully customized and/or imported shortcuts over many versions of SU in the past including 2016. Why won't it work now?

Thanks Jaxcoffee, that says it all.

Thanks Gaieus, but I understand that we have been there and done that as the saying goes. What does one do when a municipality has submitted imagery through those links, but still nothing gets done? There is no way to contact a human being to check and see whether GE is happy with what has been submitted, or if there is a problem. Although I appreciate you are all trying to help, bombarding me with more and more links to different websites doesn't get me any further ahead. I need someone at GE who can look into the issue and communicate with me or the Town of Cobourg GIS technician.

Jaxcoffee

I posted here, which seemed appropriate

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

(www.google.com)

Oh, and by the way Mike and Dermott, I do appreciate your economic woes are worse than ours, but let's not get off track.

Hi Mike, Long time since I was here. If I get anywhere with this, I'll let you know.

Thanks Rich, but I did post a less heated version on a GE forum. It just sits there without any response. And I used WTF to mean 'Where's The Feedback?'. At least here I am sure to get some kind of response as you have just proved.

How do you contact Google? It sounds like a dumb question in this day and age, but the truth is, it's almost impossible to ask a question or make a complaint and get a reply.

The area where I live in Southern Ontario is very poorly depicted on Google Earth. It looks like something that has grown in a petrie dish for a month - all green and white splotches. Now this might be understandable in a part of the Third World, but I am 100 km. from Toronto and just across Lake Ontario from Rochester, New York.

I raised this as an issue with the local municipality over eighteen months ago. They were very receptive and the economic development department recognised the fact that we were being shortchanged, especially in comparison to areas to both the east and west of us.

We have aerial photography of very high quality and I have used that to create a SU model of our downtown for the local architectural conservation body who have used it for their advocacy purposes. The municipal government uses the model to help assess development proposals in the heritage district. If you want to see some examples search for 'Jeremy Nicholls' on Youtube. This model was originally created about the same time that SU and GE started integrating their development.

I therefore have lots of buildings modelled in SU that may be acceptable for putting in GE, but without good quality imagery, there's no point in trying.

The municipality used the mechanism within GE to provide GE the high res imagery. No update has happened and the GIS staff member, who also could not find any way of following up with Google, was reduced to noting and advising Google of every error in their mapping that she could find. To try and get Google's attention, she made every error its own individual report so that Google received dozens of error reports from a qualified government GIS professional. Obviously, she wasn't successful in opening a line of communication with them.

Nowhere on Google's numerous websites is there a way of sending a message to something like a customer representative. Lots of FAQ stuff and group discussions. I tried phoning Google Canada. I got two telephone numbers using Canada 411. There is no reply from either one. I found another number on Google's website. When I tried that one, I got a recorded message saying 'If you know the extension of the person ....., or dial 0 to speak to an operator'. Pressing 0, again, I got the continuous ringing tone. Same as before, but this time, I've paid for the telephone call.

Now, maybe I am being too picky, but this area is not doing well economically and could do with all the help it can get. Just to check things out I zoomed around GE for comparisons. Well, what did I find? I could see pretty good detail (recognisable buildings and cars) in such out-of-the-way places as a village in Kazakhstan, a place called Al Hooker (couldn't resist) up the Nile in Egypt and a 'closed city' in Russia (that's one that doesn't officially exist!).

I know this forum does get good response from the SU team and so, if one of them reads this and can help in any way, I would greatly appreciate it. At the moment I think the Google conglomerate could add an eleventh principle to their famous ten:

'Disregard principle one and ignore the customer.'

I use an old version of Autocad (2000) and am used to the radius in paper space problem and have got used to tracing an arc in paper space!

On Progecad I can see there is an improvement on that. On the other hand when I tried to change units under format, a text command box appears and I have options 1 through 4. It gave me a flashback to my DOS days. At a quick glance UI is far better in Bricscad.

Hi Tom

The trouble with Qcad is that it doesn't seem to use the dwg format. I still need to be able to transfer drawings in and out.

Jeremy

It's been a long time since I was on the forum!

I'm looking at alternatives to Autocad and these two,Progecad and Bricscad, in the Intellicad family look as though they are the best options. Does anyone have opinions on either of them or other alternatives?

Oh, THAT Coke.

I've got a similar project to Panga's that I need to give a quote on. Solar, 250 acres (120 hectares say). I know there have been examples of large scale projects posted on SCF in the past. I'd like to take a look at them to get some ideas and possibly use as examples to show the client.

Does anybody have any idea how to access them. I've tried some key word searches but with no luck.

Thanks

Jeremy

Interesting timing Mike.

I have just quit after 35 years of smoking. I have been smoking a bit over a pack a day - and a pack here is 25 cigarettes. I am using 'Champix' which apparently tells your brain that you don't need nicotine right now. There's a more medical explanation somewhere.

I tried this earlier in the year, but the whole thing wasn't successful - I kept having a craving. This time is totally different. I really don't need a smoke. The tricky bit is that there are so many times during the day that I always had a ciggy and I have to control that 'habit' part.

Anyway, so far so good.

Found an interesting comment:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/greensburg-ecohomes-drawings.php

Jeremy

I found this quite impressive

http://www.flixxy.com/3d-facade-projection.htm%0b

Jeremy

I'm happy with the white background.

In Autocad I like to use a pale apricot background. I find it attractive and not so 'contrasty' but I sometimes revert to black when working off someone else's file. I know another guy who works in Acad on a pale green background because it is the same colour as the backing sheet on his drawing board.

Jeremy

If you've got a lot on your desktop, and who hasn't?, then this could be for you.

http://bumptop.com/

Jeremy

With thanks to a local blogger who posted this.

There was an article in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?"

This was one of the ideas:

Dear Mr.President,

Patriotic retirement:There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force; pay them $1 million a piece severance with stipulations:

1. They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.
2. They buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.
3. They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage- Housing Crisis fixed.

All this and it's still cheaper than the "bailout".

Jeremy

Thanks Jim and Remus. I don't use animations that much, so didn't think about this. But turning off transitions as Jim recommends certainly makes a difference.

Jeremy