@mike lucey said:

Nice work! Yes indeed Dylan SU 3D Details is a great way to explain construction methods to Builders. One good 3D can eliminate so many headaches during the course of construction. Of course it helps the Designer also as we can quickly discover whether or not everything fits together properly.

While it is much slower than straight 2D drawings I find that one 3D model with multiple views can give the total picture. Straight 2D views can also be output from the 3D construction model with little effort should they be needed, normally the case for Planning Permissions (Permits).

I still remember the first awkward 3D construction detail I did for a Winder Staircase. The ope was 2300 mm and I worked the total construction off a central column of 8 x 100 mm blocks. The carpenter was delighted with the drawings, which included a Cutting List. I think he nearly constructed the stairs in the same time in took me to make the model Ah! but I can use it again, if I can find it

Mike

I couldn't say it better (except in imperial - not metric) Great work Dylan!

Jim

Just wanted to add my thanks Didier - very handy tool to tidy up a model.

Happy Birthday to you, Alan and Shaun! Have a great weekend.

Alan - it was a pleasure to meet you and James in Boston last week.

Jim

David from Podium and a couple of shots of the convention center.

If anyone is interested I could get together some Boston and Fallingwater photos. We also had an in depth tour of Fenway Park - very interesting to baseball fans.

Really good convention - loved Boston; as usual, always great things new and old within a few blocks and the special treat of meeting some of my cyberspace friends. Sorry I didn't get to meet Lewis and Khintanar. It was a hard decision to stay inside for the seminars and show with all to see in the city. Almost glad that it was cold and rainy!

I would like to write more but still playing catchup from taking all last week off. We drove to Boston by way of Fallingwater - quite an experience -- both the drive and the house.

I have attached a few photos taken with Alan and son, Susan, CraigD and David from Podium.

I'll write more later.

Again - great to meet all of you.

Jim

Fletch,

For the ADA toilet stall, check your building code. some cities, one being Chicago, requires a vertical grab bar as well. Depends on which version or set of rule is being adopted.

Just to follow up on the "corruption" Tricia got back to me right away and she was able to save components from the file, which will help in the model re-construction. Unfortunately as a WIP I had not been dilligent enough in creating components of my bank millwork as each piece was completed. Just another life lesson I guess.

They are still looking at the file - haven't found out what may have happened as yet.

Anyway, I just wanted to express a public "thank you" to the technical support staff.

Jim Smith

North America- specifically in Indiana and work in Park Ridge Illinois - near Chicago. Both locations well within the range of a small (5.4R) earthquake we had early this morning. Woke my wife up but it would take at least a 6.0 to register on my scale.

I have almost the same problem Paul J. had except my file goes directly to the bug splat screen. It is a large 7.8Mb interior with quite a few custom millwork pieces for a bank. I had saved most of the millwork pieces, but the interior build out was quite a bit of work and my last saved version opens, but is too preliminary. The .skp and .skb are both corrupt. No apparent reason why. No other file problems with comparable models or other work done on the same machine at the same time. This is a first time for me (since 2002) where I have lost both the skippy and the backup.

I tried the load file into a new drawing trick but it didn't work either.

I will be sending up a flare to Craig in Colorado but would appreciate a second or third..++ opinion.

Paul - did your problem get resolved???

Thanks in advance.

Funny you should bring this up on TAX DAY (for those of us in the (US of A).

Benjamin Franklin said, "The only things certain in life are death and taxes." I'm not so sure about that. I think it's pretty certain that you'll get a chuckle out of one or two of the following quotations about Death and Taxes:

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." -- attributed to Albert Einstein

"If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation." -- Farmer's Almanac

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward." -- John Maynard Keynes

"Death and taxes may be certain, but we don't have to die every year." -- Unknown

"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the UP button." --
Sam Levenson

"Optimist: Someone who sets aside two hours to do his income tax return." -- Unknown

"I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country." -- Dick Gregory

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." -- Herman Wouk

"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'" -- Russell Long

"The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love." -- Joe E. Lewis

"I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day." -- George Axlerod

"It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling." -- Bert Murray

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -- Scottish Proverb

"I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, 'How gay 'twould be
To hang me from a flowering tree.'" -- Dorothy Parker

"Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all year." -- Ogden Nash

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has." -- Will Rogers

"The report of my death was an exaggeration." -- Mark Twain (after reading his own obituary)

"The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." -- Ronald Reagan

Eric,

Is the drill itself dead or just the battery? I have a Mikita with about 8 years of service and still going stroing - except last year I did need to replace the battery. A mail order place called "Battery Barn" in St. Charles Illinois had them. They have quite a large selection of current models and substiutes for those no longer manufactured. I took a look and they do have Porter Cable batteries, but they are Ni-cad.

Good luck.

Very playfull and dynamic-great rendering. Appropriately boat like for the harbor without getting old California representational.

I would go for the largest monitor you can get your hands on. I recently bought two 24" Soyo LCD's that make my life much easier. Less scrolling and switching. One is at home working in duet with my Dell laptop. The other is in the office next to a 16" diagonal CRT. The Soyo has a brightness number of 1000 and resolution of 1920x1200. Very bright and very sharp. Makes the detail jump for my old eyes.

I'd love to jump up to Solo's 42"

Great work and congratulations Jason.
Really liked the finished exhibit, I can see that your work was appreciated and executed well.

Sorry for my hasty original response. I didn't read your question closely enough and had to run off to a meeting.

I would agree it is strange there wouldn't be something more helpful in the classifications especially for a building type as common as a fire station or EMS center.

I think you are on the right track with the F and B, however take another look at the F-2. It seems to be for more non-combustible light industry uses and doesn't say anything about vehicals. F-1 does list "automobiles and other vehicals".

I find it curious that in F-2 they list foundaries, brick and masonry ceramic and glass product manufacturing, which of course produces non-combustible products, but all of those processes require tremendous heat and somewhat open flames! They also list optical goods in F-1 but most of that would seem to be glass products which would make it F-2.

I guess these sort of subjective code confusions keep the unemployment lines from being overwhelmed by out of work plan inspectors.

Matt,

The UCC in Penn. adopts the 2006 International Building Codes (IBC) and Fire/mechanical etc codes.

In chapter 3, use and occupancy,they lay out how to classify your building. There are two basic ways:(note - these paragraph numbers are from the 2004 IBC - I can't find my 2006 right now, but they are very similar)

302.3.1 Non Separated uses - where you design the building entirely based upon the most stringent use - regarding area limits, fire residtance etc.

302.3.2 Separated uses - where you subdivide the building with rated fire separation walls and openings based upon the required separation of occupancies table 302.3.2

All of this is flavored with a dash of what your building construction type is, the overall height and area and whether it has a fire protection system. If you are in a relatively open area with 30' or more all around, you get breaks as well.

In general, the IBC is much more user friendly where ever you have fire sprinklers. In the long run, you save the cost of the system by being able to reduce the number and intensity of fire separations and generally get a substantial increase in the alllowable area.

Hope this points you in the right direction.

Ultimately, you need to get in touch with the local building officials and fire marshal.

I could use a tool like this too. One use that comes to mind is for preparing site plan studies to look at building shape options where building lines and floor area are fixed.

I must add by belated THANKS!!! Fredo for this super, great, etc. tool. As usual, I am a bit late finding such gems, but glad I found it now since next week I will be working on a curvy building project that will now be much easier to model.

Glad to "bump" this file up to the top of the list so maybe more late comers can find it.

Spectacular job - again - many thanks

wmanning:

I bought turbosketch a few weeks ago to give it a try - the price was good and it integrated well with SketchUp, but the renders I have gotten have not been very good and take forever. I also admit I have not spent a lot of time trying to tweek the settings.

3 questions:

Will the new idx version be out for windows any time soon?

Will the speed and quality of image be improved in the new version?

Any estimate on cost of upgrade for TurboSketch owners?

Thanks.

Thanks for sharing Daniel, just noticed the post. These files will be very usefull.