Hi All, started doing an architectural image for my folio. Totally went on a tangent as Christmas is on us, so applied the theme to my model. All with no real plan again. Thought I would share. Merry Chrismas all

@bryan k said:

Looks good. I think the new light temperature is perfect.

Agreed! much more convincing

Hi Dave, not sure it started as a doodle but turned into something pretty good but I often work on a few project so not sure if I saved it. but I definitely have Autosave on.

I lost a model that I had open for a week. I now want to find it. Not even sure I named it. My autosave is set to on and every 20 mins. But nothing has been saved into the expected location for a couple of months when I checked. Any Ideas?

I am thinking, if your are on an english speaking forum, and can speak english,why dont you ask in english?

@davidheim1 said:

Thank you, gentlemen. I think I might take another stab at the back piece; it looks a little small to me.
Best,
dh

Great work mate! The only critism would be what you have already noted, the back piece support being a bit wide. I think I will have a closer look at fredo scale after seing this work

Point taken frenchy

@pilou said:

Now that is pretty cool and free!
(of course you must have a computer and Internet for load the program !

By Matt-one with a model made with the free Lego Designer!
http://ldd.lego.com
(rendered with the free SimLab Composer Lite (Maxi 1920 *1080) click this link for the original size!
(don't click image for enlarge! )

So cool mate thank you for pointing that out. I will have a play when I can. I wonder if leggo would be interested in employing a plugin designer to design a leggo plugin for sketchup. (not me i would am not capable) just a thought bubble.

@krism said:

& Meccano

Sorry mate I also hit thumbs down by miatake. I also enjoyed Meccano

How many people find navigating in Sketchup frustrating..........like I have said before: scroll wheel smoking as I try as I might to get trough than invisible wall made of viscus mud. It can be fixed, connexion 3D mouse has solved with software, so It can be done. Why has it not been fixed. It is a fundamental problem.

@cotty said:

I've got a lot of Lego "for the children"...

And do "the children" have a train set?

@dave r said:

What do you mean "were into Lego"?

Agreed, no need to stop enjoying. I stand corrected. I remember the sound operated module that would turn on and off the 4WD motor and the little bricks with light would fascinate me.

Hi all, I am curious, how many Sketchers were into Leggo as a child. Just interested if there is a commonality in the real and virtual 3D headspace.

Any render updates?

Looks like you need to check the texture size in vray as the SU texture size has not translated to vray So the image has tiled much smaller.

Seems to me like trimble concentrates on a "big list"
How about fixing such a simple thing as navigation. We all know mouse navigation is less than good in Sketchup, like consistently fighting my way through invisable wall with smoke eminating from my mouse center wheel.Seems to me 3Dconnexxion solved those issues but trimble cannot?
Same old same old. How about they solve some real problems.

@philw said:

I use both the Cotty and L i am methods, very time consuming .

I keep hoping that someone will come up with a none destructive spine tool for sketchup, something similar to the way 3D Max works where you can draw your line, add nods along the path and adjust to get the desired shapes. Then you create a thickness to suit your size requirements. The none destructive part is you can go back and make changes later.

Hi, not sure what is time consuming, so maybe I have missed something or you have misunderstood.

Have attached some images to clarify. Those 3 wires took 4 mins 30 odd, seconds.

Really nice Tuna, would you care to share the model?

@pilou said:

@unknownuser said:

What a headache for me to do it all in metric!

It's nothing compare of the inverse for us!

it's follish to use imperial unities in the 21 century!

Remember Mars climate orbiter cost!

Could not agree more. In my early school days Australia was imperial but changed to metric in about 1975 so I have a perspective on the subject. I was originally a firefighter and 1 ft of water had a head of 0.433 pounds per square inch. cubic foot (62.4 lb/ft3); dont get me started 1 cubic meter of water weighs 1 tonne. All of a sudden fire-ground hydraulics could be done in your head by moving decimal points.

Three countries on the entire planet which are not using the metric system are Liberia, Myanmar and of course… the United States of America

Hi shawb, really nice work mate Only constructive comment I would make is modifying the colour temperature of the lighting. The contemporary lighting source of that era would have been incandescent, so would be a lot warmer