Posts made by john.warburton

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!

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@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

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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.

Another terrific issue. Just an observation for Mike that the BIM acronym actually stands for Building Information Modeling, not Management. Modeling in this case being the wider definition (rather than just 3D modelling) and indicates a much broader purpose for the data than just management.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling

Forced to choose between video and PDF, I would prefer video. But both have advantages, and I'd like to have both!

Excellent work, as always!

Your "British Buildings" mini publication seems to have vanished from the Sketchucation shop, by the way!

Crazy, crazy stuff - apparently, if Yorkshire were a country we would have finished 12th in the medal tables. And if Leeds were a country, it would have finished 49th. Must be something in the air here.

Clearing up after a hard day's work installing bollards to stop people parking in this space...

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Safety Sign

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Waiting it out was not an option...

...it was made very clear that I was on course to lose the use of my arms, my legs, and to lose control of my bladder if I chose to allow the problems to take their natural course.

I was offered a sponge bath too - but by a male nurse.

Well, I try to avoid going to the doctors, on the principle that most aches and pains are just that and not worth wasting the doctor's time with.

Last January I finally gave in and went with a small catalogue of what I thought were minor aches and ailments.

I came away from that appointment with two major surgeries to schedule, after not needing major surgery since I had my tonsils removed about 45 years ago.

First surgery went ahead in early April, to fix a ventral hernia. No trouble with the anasthetic, but astonishing just how much pain an operation on your abdomen can cause when you try to move at all.

The second, more serious, surgery was finally done this weekend. Delayed after the first operation wound became infected. An anterior cervical discectomy with fusion and treatment for spinal stenosis. Supposedly a 1.5 to 2 hour operation that I went into theatre for at 14.30 and came round from at 18.30. Some complication with "unexpected seepage" whatever that means. A complicated name for an operation that simply means they cut through the front of your throat to get to your spine, remove a disc, grind off some boney growth, and insert a tungston cage as a frame for two pieces of your spine to fuse together. That takes 2 months. A last minute change meant that only one disc was removed, even though the plan was to remove two (out of 3 that are damaged.) I could be back for the second doing in another few years.

Theoretically off work for up to 6 weeks.

Starting to feel a bit like Frankenstein's monster now with all the scars, stitches and bandages. Even got the stiff movements 'cos I have to avoid excessive neck movements for a while.

This is just wrong on so many levels!

http://www.cgtextures.com/ have a whole section of road textures. Most would need you to do some work to make them seamless, but there is a good selection.