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He really nailed the house. One important item missing is water in the waterfall!
Our tour guide during my 2008 visit to the icon told us the story of a dry year with a very feeble trickle from the river and falls. One of the tourists asked her if she could turn the waterfall on. We had no such problem as heavy recent rains had all the region rivers flowing free and fast.
Architecture by Norman Foster - Steve didn't mention that in the presentation. Architects never get credits 
- even the big guys
[quote="Mike Lucey"]Hi Guys,
I am not sure if Photofly has been mentioned on the forums before. Anyway I thought I'd mention it as it something FREE from Big Daddy AutoDESK!
Mike, It came up in sketchucation a few months ago.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=29926
I saw a post elsewhere yesterday, that they have upgraded to version 2.0 and extended the beta trial to december 2012. I walked around my old house this morning and shot a series to see how it works. I will post the results a.s.a.p.
FYI --- photofly is now on version 2.0 and the "free" trial has been extended to 12-31-2012.
Never tried it last fall when it showed up on the forum, but I think I will give it a try and see how well it plays with sketchup.
I plan to model my old house as a test and will post the results.
I zoomed in on the reversed triangles of you model, selected one face and hit delete several times, removing all but the last face, then it reversed just fine. I have had that problem before and found that somehow I had created additional coplanar surfaces. Once erased the remaining face responds properly
Made it back --- Great convention. Learned some things; bought some things; great tastes; great sights, great music. No flooding! The levys held and the pumps are working.
Visited the Google booth and had an informative chat with Chris Cronin and others about Layout3. Quite a few impressive construction document sets on display. Right across the aisle was Shaderlight. Daniel Tal was there making notes and giving tips. He is writing a new book on the renderer. After seeing the demos' and talking with Daniel, I decided to pick up a copy (at expo discount) I will post something as soon as I get a chance. Attached are a few of the 1500 photos we shot during the week in NOLA.
@unknownuser said:
It is a conspiracy. Obama is trying to drown as many architects as he can.
Bobby Jindel loves architects. I think it is more likely he will close the borders and keep all +/- 15,000 architects in the super dome behind computers to crank out plans for the new delta region. (Those architects that can't CAD may be alligator food) 
If you don't hear from me in a week, you will know what happened.
@dave r said:
Jim,
If some guy walks up to you on the street and says, "For a dollar I'll tell you where you got your shoes," don't take him up on it.
I found the street people and street musicians most interesting. Better jazz outside than inside except for "Preservation Hall"
@daniel said:
Jim, ....And, you must go to the Cafe Du Monde for beignets. Both in the French Quarter. Wish I could have afforded to go.
One of the first good things I heard post Katrina was that Cafe DuMonde was not wiped out by the flood
@solo said:
Beware, rising waters, The Army Corps of Engineers opened some floodgates at the Bonnet Carre spillway upriver from New Orleans this morning to take pressure off the levees near New Orleans.
As the Mississippi River continues to rise forecasters expect it to reach record flood levels this week.
I heard it would crest at 17' and they are confident in the levy will take 20'. Just in case, we have an upper level hotel room. I was wondering about a sticking an inflatable raft in the luggage but my wife looked at me real funny so I dropped it.
I'll post photos, one way or another.
The AIA national convention starts this week. I see Google SketchUp will be there and some of our add-on rendering friends. Anyone else out there going to attend?? I haven't been in New Orleans since Katrina. A major part of the convention and host chapter events will center on the recovery steps which I am sure will be eye opening.
First thing I though of when I saw this was the movie "Little Shop of Horrors"
I can just hear a little voice from the plant saying "feed me"
On the first page of SketchUcation, click on "plugins" under the resources heading. There is an index of all plugins and several threads on what people find the most useful. Favorite and/or most useful Plugins are an individual preference depending upon how you work and what you are doing. Don't forget to look at the Smustard site as well. These plugins have a small cost, but are well worth it. Many of my favorites are from Smustard. I do quite a bit of my modeling from autocad files. Delete short lines, close open lines, intersect overlapping lines and make faces speed up the conversion. The cleanup plugin by ThomThom is also very handy and no cost.
Post a bit about your work and we can target a few that you may find helpful.
@unknownuser said:
If I buy Bonnie's "Lay Out 3" do I need to buy Lay Out 1 & 2 first? I have her Recipes book and find it well written.
Thanks, ocd.
ocd,
the "layout three" book takes you from the beginning and covers all features with good illustrated examples to walk you through. You don't need the earlier layout version books.
lapx,
have you sent a picture of the chandelier to some local lighting fixture sales representatives? I have found they will fall all over themselves to get an order, especially in this economic climate and that looks like a big project.
@unknownuser said:
Maybe Tgi3D?
http://www.tgi3d.com/index.php?Page=PhotoScanIt would be a bit pricey for a single project although looks extremely powerful!
That is the one I was thinking of, and it is pricey. Maybe utiler can get one good model out of the 30 day trial??? Hopefully the trial isn't laden with use restrictions.
The tutorials show quite an impressive program. I haven't tried it yet, but it appears to be only in metric, can anyone confirm that? I'd like to know before loading it, like many USA'ers I don't speak metric very well.
This may not be much help but I remember not too long ago there was a post showing a small program that would splice photos taken from several angles to make a model. I tried to find it in a search but no luck. The community memory may serve better.
Hi Robert,
I did your survey and glad to see that you took my advice and posted on the forum, especially since you anticipated my suggestion by two days! 
I think Erichf has a good point about these tools in the hands of non-professionals, but they can be guided to be a positive experience if they are cooperative and work together with you and not get an, I know it all, attitude. The tool is only a tool and can't replace the training in detailing, codes and practice that a profesional brings to the table.
Good luck on the paper!