Gai,
care to point me in the direction of something "really cheap"? Can't say I have had much luck finding anything in that category to date...

Hello,
I am an architect who uses sketchup frequently. I need to purchase a laptop for my wife and need it to be able to run sketchup on occasion. I have been looking at ordering from Dell since I have had good luck with them in the past. Many of the Dell laptops in our price range (hopefully <$1000) come with a "media accelorator" rather than a video card. Adding a 256 or 512 card really runs up the price. Does anyone know if the higher performance media accelerators such as the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD will work with sketchup? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Josh

Hi
We use sketchup a lot for single family home design. We always model the interiors as part of our design study, but have not done much with interior lighting/ plug ins. Can some one point me in the diretion of an eefective tool to get started that is on the simple and cheap side.

thanks
j

Does anyone know if a plug in exists that allows you to lock certain guides so they are not deleted when you choose edit>delete guides. This would be useful in complex structures where a guide is desired at say the floor line for reference but you do not want it to delete when all other old guides are deleted. Curious if a script or plug in exists?

Thanks
J