Why not make a SU collaborative model that tells a story based on this kind of snobbery? It would be a cool 3D "exquisite corpse" told in several scenes.

Thank you

Yes, moire is a real world phenomenon as well. It has something to do with interfering patterns (like offset grids.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moire

Hi Gunawan I don't think Image Modeller can do what I'm suggesting, neither can similar app Photomodeler, as they both calculate perspective. Great for photographs where the perspective is accurate but less useful for hand drawn sketches. But it is quick and easy to sketch accurate isometrics so it would be nice to be able to scan these and translate them to 3D. But the interface would have to know that the image is a parallel view with no vanishing points.

Enjoy it my fellow freeloader and seasons greetings to all cheapskates wherever you may be!

It is indeed Rich. Thanks for the advice and the textures Jackson, much appreciated.

Kwist Have you installed it and had a play? It obviously needs a bit of refining but it lets you walkaround an SU model in realtime, or as an avatar. The movement is very smooth, the shadows aren't good though. I can see the potential for it though. One of the demo files has a model of a pond in it with an animated displacement map of water, but I couldn't work out how they did that.

Curl is POJO(Plain Old Java Object)application was created by a method called java objects, and in return receive a Curl is a tool for application. In addition, the server side of the Curl source code of java class can be generated automatically. download: http://developers.curlap.com/gallery/app/zip_url/96/curl3dgallery.zip RTE ver6 Needed to work in the run-time version: RTE ver6 download: http://www.curl.com/download/rte/ sources: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.curlap.com%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en

I'd say that if ruby scripting tingles your curiosity then go for it. It's fun learning something new, isn't it? Having said that, you'll have a steeper learning curve if you've never touched scripting before. You'd have to get to grips with the concepts of scripting in general, the ruby syntax, then the SU API. I've done JS, PHP, VBS scripting and some Visual Basic and C# programming, but only looked into SU ruby scripting these last couple of weeks. That makes it somewhat easier to break faster into the creating as oppose to learning. I consider myself more of a visual person than a scripter. I work with visualisations at an architectural office. But I also like scripting as I like to 'make things work'. Earlier I used to do webdesign, which allowed me a nice combination of working with graphics and working with code. Now it's SketchUp that fills that void. I'm not a fan of sudoko, but instead I do scripting to feed the problem-solving part of my brain. I wouldn't have gotten anywhere with scripting had I not had an interest for it. Learn Ruby, if you want to your self. Not because you feel you owe anyone anything.

Nice!

Years ago I mucked about with Softcad but didn't get much use out of it, I didn't find it as intuitive as it looked. But looking around the EdiCAD website they have upped their game a bit. I'm going to try out the new free version of Architech pc 2d for cad drawing as its parametric. I've just downloaded it this morning.

I have a tile maker.rb file I created. It can be used to make cubes of uniform dimensions of a selected area. I don't know if this tool would be helpful for what your are describing. attached is a short wmv file. tile.wmv

Well I hope they give every Vista user a free license for Windows 7 if it actually is better.

Really amazing ,im a big fan of industrial architecture. Great job!

@remus said: 600pics/3 hours=200 pics per hour= approx 1 pic every twenty seconds. Im no expert, but id say tis a bit ambitious to do that for 3 hours straight well if all he wants is a stickman with no background then i'd say it's pretty doable, but then again i'm no expert either, nor do i feel like proving it

Thanks for the link Jon. A friend just gave me his un-used Verizon XV6700 pocketpc phone. They never used it one bit. Never even had service. Not sure if I'll put cell service on it but it's a cool wifi PDA. I was looking for a good ppc freeware site. Thanks Glenn

It doesn't affect FormFonts at all...any more than it would affect a car rental company, because we don't sell content, we rent it. If we were selling it, the annual subscription would be 50 times what it is at present. Those terms are right there on the site...available to anyone before they sign up. Putting it simplistically, renting a car for a few dollars a day does not give you the right to then sell it to someone else for several thousand dollars....or to sub-let or even loan it to someone else without the knowledge or permission of the hire company. Even software companies that sell software (or content) on a retail basis are safe enough behind the premise that they are selling it to one person. If that person decided they wanted to sell it on, they would have to do so on that same basis, without continuing to use the product themselves. They would need to sell it cheaper, because the understanding would be that they were in no position to guarantee its usability, or to offer any kind of support or upgrade path. Any attempt to have their cake and eat it or distribute duplicated copies would be a clear case of software piracy. The whole Autodesk case rests around the fact that a company is offering software at what any reasonable person would regard as a retail price, yet still maintaining that it is only leasing it to you on a non-transferable basis...then hiding that fact on the inside of a shrink-wrapped package.

Well I think it would be quite easy to do a 2d cad / technical drawing program, as most phones have cursors which could be used to navigate an xy plane. Teavuihuang's app works shows the potential for this. Incidentally I have a sony ericson, not a nokia that the app was designed for but it runs fine. I think a more robust app like this could be extremely useful for drawing on-site surveys accurately rather than fumbling around with a paper pad.