Yes - a stickey would be a good idea.

@unknownuser said:

Welcome Denis the Home of the SUCer's (Pronounced - Soookers)

Mike

Until I see major improvements in SU7 I'll continue to pronounce it Suckers Mike

@unknownuser said:

autocad has a free viewer...

Yes it does Kris - but you can't access all the tools as you can with google sketchup.

I make my living with sketchup - I started with V4 a couple of years ago.

the beauty of sketchup is that your client can download the free google version. I know of no other program that enables that yet as my clients are international it's a vital part of my business now.

I agree with Kris though - you need AutoCad for drafting. It's such a shame because a few simple additions to sketchup like dimension, line and text styles could eliminate that.

I've never seen it before Kris. But from the front page it says:

Astana celebrates!
Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, celebrates its birthday this summer and a wide range of ambitious building projects are in full swing. 1,700 cranes are currently in operation on 650 separate sites in a city which less than a decade ago, had a population of only 280,000, and today boasts - 600,000. Building work in Astana is on an unprecedented scale; to date, investment totals an incredible KZT 1 trillion 500 billion – dwarfing current projects in Dubai, and the construction of Brasilia and Canberra.

Canberra!! 8O

That 1.5 trillion Kazakhstan dollars equals US$12,342,631 according to this currency converter.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/asia/kazakhstan/currency.htm

cheeers
john

Here is the REAL Haka - performed by the New Zealand All Blacks last night.

click here .wmv file

The Maori's were a Warrior Nation and the Haka was their battle cry. It was depicted in a Film called "Once We Were Warriors"

Hence the joke - "What do you call a Maori on Prosac? - "Once We Were Worriers"

I should be a great match Allan - I'll be watching tonight.

My sister sent me this.

small .wmv file

enjoy

Very nice allan - you can't get curved glass like that can you??

OK - stupid me just realised .avi won't stream.

here are .wmv files of both studios.

Jamie's studio

Jon's studio

cheers
john

@unknownuser said:

maybe its because i like the way you plan the rooms in the given rectangular´s shapes

well that's what it's all about. I can't seem to download the file either even though the same script worked yesterday and all the html is correct.

I'll see what I can do as it explains where I come from

cheers
john

Hi juan.

So what is a plan view?

Here's Jamie_16.avi where we have progressed to.

My business is not about showing beautiful renditions about beautiful buildings, it's about what needs to be done within our limitations.

It's about creating a space where a recording engineer, such as my client, can record a band of drums and loud guitars etc, within a suburban community of McMansions without upsetting his family above or the neighbours.

It's about sound isolation and acoustics.

The control room space, i.e. the first space shown in the video, is where he will sit with all his expensive recording equipment and most importantly his speaker system from which all sound judgements are made. It must be acoustically correct.

Off that room are a series of rooms that are suited to individual instruments. One room has a "live reverberant sound" like the drum room in front of the control room, the other two are designed or guitar amps and singers. Each one designed for it's application.

His father is a builder and is following my designs, he's already acted upon recommendations I've made such as moving jack-posts etc, and will build the studio off the 3D Sketchup plans I provide.

It's a very different area from the general posts on this site, it's actually closer to Joe Wood's designs if anything.

From my perspective I oggle at Ross's beautiful swimming pool, yet on the other hand I ask myself - what would that pool sound like?

I say it would have a reverberation time of around 4 -5 secs - if there were 20 old-timers and their minders in the room they would all be turning up their hearing aids because the acoustics of the room would not enhance their sound perspective. Whilst I can admire the space I see no attention to the acoustic of the space.

The other night I had dinner with my ex and my eldest daughter in a fine restuarant in North Sydney. We ended up shouting at each other because no one had considered the acoustic of the room we were in.

that's my field.

cheers
john

OK - I've slowed them down. The originals were at 3sec transition. The new ones are at 5 sec transition with a 1 sec pause.

I've replaced the original files with the new versions.

cheers
john

Will do guys - point taken - thanks.

cheers
john

Here's a couple of videos of recording studios I'm designing.

The first is a home studio in the basement of a typical US McMansion.

14 meg .avi file

the second is a Pro Studio in an industrial area in the US NE.

20 meg .avi file

Thankyou FormFonts, your "people" are gaining star status - one client asked me why was HE sitting in that other guys studio!!

cheers
john

I just watched an interesting program about a straw panel made here in aussieland. I recorded it and made a short video that explains how it's made.

WMV file 7meg

Here's their aussie website

Here's their US website

Interesting green product. It has been used in I-Max Theaters through to huge convention centers etc.

cheers
john

For me the glass is too blue and the sun too high

cheers
john

flat on my back with the most lethal flu I've ever experienced. It started last saturday morning at 4am with a cough. I coughed continuously till wednesday.

It's killed a couple of children and a 37 year old here so far.

you could put a staircase up the side of the house with a red light at the top.

That should attract some attention.