How about a good set of wood textures:

• Both horizontal and verticle
• Seamless
• For each species, have several boards with different grain patterns and widths, like shopping at a lumber yard.

Gidon,

Check out http://www.northernlightstimberframing.com/su/.

They've created a set of ruby scripts for designing timber frame structures.

Thanks Juan. In English it's called camouflage.

What about one based on the H. O. Studley tool chest. It supposedly holds 300 tools, each tucked away in its own custom cubby hole.

You didn't include the render time for Podium.

You need to move each new material from the 'In Model' library to either an existing material library or to a new one. I suggest that you read up on the Material Browser in the SketchUp User's Guide which explains the whole process.

Start the material importer, navigate to the directory containing your jpg images, click on any one of them and then click the Open button. After a bit, new materials will be added to your 'In Model' library.

Remus,

There's a Ruby script called massmaterialimporter.rb that will do what you want.
See http://www.crai.archi.fr/rubylibrarydepot/ruby/em_ren_page.htm.

It's interesting how the handling of shadows is different between PM and MLT (BLT). The foreground shadows in the PM renders is almost absent.

These are used to attach doors to frameless cabinets. Rendered in KT.

You can also check out http://www.accustudio.com/exchange/textures.php?dir= for area rug textures. They also have hundreds of other textures in many different categories.

Such a nice machine deserves a great monitor. What did you get?

I built a system very similar to yours except I used an E6600 CPU and overclocked it to 3.2 GHz. Now SketchUp will only use one core, but if you do any rendering, say with Kerky, you can use both cores and start generating some real heat. I replaced the stock Intel fan with a Zalman CNPS9500LED which really cooled down the CPU. The 8800GTX has a nice builtin fan but it still runs at around 52-58 degrees Celsius.

Download a copy of SpeedFan to display the temperature of all your components - CPU (each core), HD and video card. Then you can decide if you need some fan upgrades.

Have fun...