@unknownuser said:

It's this Saturday which still has some 5 hours, 26 minutes and 20 seconds to go for me.

That was his response after several people, including you, were posting to ask what was going on.

@unknownuser said:

I sorted out the technical glitch. Should be up in a few hours. Promise, this time.
Now stop asking!

Nearly nine hours ago. Since then, nothing.

Compare the way Coen has gone about with his announcement and the way the new Offset tools were introduced. Fredo didn't make an announcement that everyone would be getting a surprise soon, he simply came out with a fantastic tool.

I only hope that this announcement has been worth waiting for, but the way Coen has gone about it has really sucked.

Coen wouldn't have been overloaded at all if he hadn't announced he was going to make an announcement. Juan wouldn't have been bugging him if Coen had updated everyone in a decent manner rather than leaving everyone to wonder what was going on.

@unknownuser said:

People who can not give their spare change to the guy ringing a bell around Christmas.

Bell ringers piss me off when I first hear them. Then when I've walked to the store from the car I want to kill them.

The only time I'd ever give money to a bell ringer would be to pay them to stop.

Awesome. Thanks so much for making fantastic improvments to Sketchup.

@kwistenbiebel said:

:shock:
The new SU 7 interface:

That's a bad sign. Where have you got that from?

I've never been that interested in rendering, but I tried Indigo and have been having problems.

I downloaded Indigo and Skindigo and tried rendering a simple model (187kb and one texture). My CPU started racing at 100% for around 15 minutes until I close down Indigo. I try again with the settings on an even lower resolution and simple cube model with no textures and pretty much the same thing happened. I've had a quick look at the Indigo forums and seen that the program does go on until you stop it. I've seen the images produced and I'm not exactly impressed, I'd probably have been better off exporting a 2D graphic straight from Sketchup.

My computer has an Intel Pentium 4 3.07ghz with 384mb of RAM.

I tried to use your tutorial, but I keep getting Windows - No Disk message (Exception Processing Message c0000012 Parameters 75b......).

Is the program supposed to use up so much processing power? If it's normal for the program to use the CPU that much, does it lesson the life of the computer to be stressed so much?

Any help? I'm kind of thinking that rendering's either not for me, my PC, or both.

I just bought the subdivide and smooth plugin this week, so I know that Google will announce that they're releasing SU7 with fantastic S+S capabilities.

In the second column of screens the bottom two monitors have a deformed casing. The shadows on the back wall seem strange. I don't like the marble tops of the cabinets on both sides of the room. The computer chairs are pushed aside, when surely they'd have been lined up in front of the keyboards? The left computer chair is hidden behind the table chairs. I'm not too sure what the 4 boxes are at the end of the long table (speakers?).

I think you should send the design to Fiat. It's the next generation Fiat Multipla.

All my comments are going to be negative. Sorry.

I hate cutout people. I don't like the fact that there's a combination of cutout people, 2d graphic, realistic trees and then the rendered building in the background. I don't think there's near enough emphasis on the appearance of the building, which is what the image is supposed to be all about.

A photo editor like Paint.net or PhotoFiltre INSIDE Sketchup.

You make a selection of a face in Sketchup. Click on PHOTOEDIT and that face is opened up in the photo editor. When done you click on a tick to apply it to the model.

I'm a blunt Englishman and I feel I'm going to cause offence, but I'll say it anyway.

@unknownuser said:

I'm now running these online seminars at a modest price compared to live computer lab training.

It might be a modest price compared to live computer lab training, but your costs are modest compared to live computer lab training. You have many more potential customers throughout the world by webinar training than you would offering lab training.

@unknownuser said:

I did the first one yesterday and the registration was small: Only a single individual. Hardly worth my while financially but it was a commtment and I talked and taught for 7 hours.

This might be an indication that it's not going to be a successful venture on your part, or not one that is worth your time for the return.

@unknownuser said:

It was pretty clear that they opted to use speakers and a microphone instead of a headset and as a result, the guys boss could hear everything that I was saying and was able to sit behind him and watch the whole session. I could hear him in the background.

Maybe the reason the boss was sat behind the bloke wasn't because he was trying to get a lesson for free, but he was checking out the quality of the teaching so he could put 20 other members of his firm through your training in the next few weeks.

You say that he was able to sit behind him and watch the whole lesson, but is that what actually happened? And maybe it wasn't your lesson that he was watching, but the increasing skills of his staff member.

Let me put it this way, if you're the boss and you're interested in learning Sketchup, are you really going to do it by putting a staff member on the seminar and sit behind him, or are you going to just sign up for the seminar yourself?

@unknownuser said:

I just had a student sign up for my next one and she at least was honest and informed me that there will be a group of 7 of them sitting in on the session and asking if that would be okay. I told her that I thank her for her honesty but that it isn't okay. This is the way I feed my children.

So if this student decides that she cannot afford to pay for the webinar by herself and opts out, how much food will your children be getting with that $0?

I can understand that giving a seminar to a group of 7 rather than 1-1 will be more work on your part, but it will also be the case that the group of 7 won't be getting the same return that they would be getting as lone users. Maybe you could work out a new price scale so that groups could receive your training for a higher fee.

I have massive respect for you for trying this venture and the skills you must have to try this, but I get the feeling that your attitude of feeling cheated by your clients may be damaging your business. (If I was your customers boss and I was considering putting more people through your training I'd certainly decide against it after seeing this thread)Seeing as it's such a new experience maybe you shouldn't be looking at it as people cheating you out of fees, but as a way of advertising your business to many more people. 6 people sat watching one up front on the computer simply aren't going to learn anything near as much as they would if it was 1-1. Maybe a few of them will sign up in future for 1-1 training because they've seen it's worth it with the group.

Having a group of seven students watch your seminar could bring in a massive return for you while just teaching that one student 1-1 could mean you get no credit whatsoever. Just imagine that those seven students go on to create work far superior to their friends at college. The news that the learnt their skills through you may bring plenty of new customers your way. But if one lone student goes to the expense of paying for the training themselves they are probably going to keep the competitive advantage to themselves.

Good luck with your business. I hope things work out for you.

@rayochoa said:

do you think it would be a good idea to ask whaat to teach me?

I don't.

You're just developing an interest in making ruby's. That interest could last 2 days or it could last for years. If that interest is only going to last for a few weeks and you then move on to something else then any time that whaat has given to you will have been wasted.

You've made a good start to learning ruby's because you're part of this forum and there will obviously be help here if you need it. But if you're asking for help then I think it should be limited at this stage to just asking openly on the forum for help, rather than making personal requests directly to people. If whaat, or anyone else, wants to help you then they can easily contact you to help you. I just feel it's a bit rude to ask publically on the forum for him to help you.

There's already a standard toobar to see ISO, Top, Right, Left, back and front.

View - Toolbars - Views

You could always assign a shortcut to change from Parallel etc. without going through the menus.

Window - Preferences - Shortcut

I think one reason why some people may be restless is because Sketchup is ultimately limited in what it can achieve. While great work can be produced with Sketchup, it is very basic when compared with the best 3D packages.

There will also be differences in what people want to model. For architectural models Sketchup is fantastic, but for modelling game creatures there are far better solutions.

I'm interested in 3D modelling. Because of that I love Sketchup. But Sketchup isn't perfect and I'm always open to finding better programs. I have an old copy of Bryce that I've not got into and I've downloaded Maya and Vue PLE's to have a look at. The only reason I haven't looked at them properly is because I want to improve my skills and knowledge of Sketchup before I try something else. DAZ Studio has just released an update and that's free, so I'm looking at that a little to see if that can work better for me.

I think I'd ask Edson why he isn't interested in other programs. Surely most other programs will be able to offer show some way for SU to be improved?

What are the chances that Google would buy this development and either include it with an update of SU6 or include it in SU7?

The pins are pretty easy to use whan you know how.

Just make sure you use the green scale pin and you can quickly and easily get the texture to the correct size. It might be that the Fixed Pins option wasn't selected and the pins just looked like four yellow pins. If that's the case then right click again and select Fixed Pins.

Another option for you could be to edit the size of the texture in the materials menu.

sk.lion - What name do you share your models under on the 3DW?

7' is seven foot.

I'm just a hobbyist putting the odd model up on 3DW now and then. Generally just play about with SU though. For my last model of Stamford Bridge http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=afe2980d2dcec9b4583012841e4379c7 I found myself spending so much time on the model that it was stupid. I then just decided not to finish it properly, but pretty much bodged it and chucked it on 3DW to get it over with.

The obsessive part of me wants to work on it some more to sort out the rough parts, but the laid back part of me is fine to just leave it as it is.