There is a plugin/add-on/extension called Flashgot for Firefox that mass downloads website content.

https://flashgot.net/

These "garden room" structures are really starting to take off, and yours is a particularly fine design.

This is hot off the press for something that the developers are hoping will grab attention here in the UK:

http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/news/ps8000-micro-house-future-londons-generation-rent

The inbuilding.org web site has just relaunched with a new look. It is a community forum for architects, so Sketchup members with an interest in the profession may find it worth joining.

http://www.inbuilding.org/

...and goodness knows how many more to argue if it should really be called a "lamp" or "light-globe"

First impressions are that SU 2013 is a seriously underwhelming upgrade, and the new licencing restrictions make it a major step backwards in many ways. I've yet to try it out with a large model, so I'll tentatively reserve judgement, but if the updates continue at the same rate that they have done in the past there seems little obvious advantage to be gained from making the switch from SU 8 unless you make much use of Layout.

@pbacot said:

Clients want fast results as made more possible by modern technologies but then they expect to go incommunicado themselves whenever they like (e.g. vacation) as if this were the 19th century.
Sort of " Please get this done ASAP because I am going to be captive on a pirate ship next week."
Something like that and more....

But you can, and I have done - several times!

@richard said:

Thanks mate, yeah for me the whole container movement is exciting. Admittedly though this emerging system uses disused containers, I think there may be scope for a similar but more light weight system that is more apt for architectural purpose yet based upon the same rigid conformity.

Something like this planned for New York by nArchitects:

http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/6853312/list/Microunits-Are-Coming-to-NYC--See-the-Winning-Design

There are application specific flavours of XML, so there is no simple answer. I use MicroGDS, which imports and exports XML, but I doubt that it would work with just ANY XML file. I understand that Microstation also imports and exports XML.

@mike lucey said:

@john.warburton said:

Guys, it is NOT cool that you have blocked those of us who choose to use Adblock from viewing content in posts.

Hi John,

TIG has outlined very well the reasons we have implemented the Anti AdBlock measures so I won't elaborate. However when one thinks about it, we have not 'blocked' anyone, its through the use of AdBlock that folks are 'blocking' themselves.

Mike

That's the kind of cringe-worthy reasoning that we expect from a politician, Mike. It is not worthy of you - I know that you can do better.

I was never in any doubt why you had done this, and I'm well aware that I can alter AdBlock's settings to just allow adverts here, but I think that it should be the user's choice to opt in to receiving the adverts or not.

Guys, it is NOT cool that you have blocked those of us who choose to use Adblock from viewing content in posts.