@unknownuser said:

Lili looks bored, please model her a martini.

thanks for the model

and a smile?

thanks

poster-Maggy

I didn't know the term anal retentive, so I looked it up in Wikipedia:

@unknownuser said:

The term is often used to describe a person deemed to be overly obsessed with minor details.

Hanging a pendulum where gravity hangs it in a clock that isn't ticking does sound lazy to me, but quite the contrary of anal retentive. Perhaps my obsession with such details might be called anal retentive?

[maggy]

Bernard, I didn't mean a real animation, just a little adaptation to reduce the static impression.
Lets compare it to something very dynamic: a football match (soccer for US). The striker swings one left back to kick the ball into the goal. Camera's clicking around him. At a certain point in his motion it's possible that his body is straight upright, with both legs straight down and possibly even both arms straight down. Would any reporter send in such a picture? Would any newspaper publish it?
Every striker has to pass this position somewhere in the swing of his kick. Just like your clock passes this position every second.
Actually lots of SU drawings have this same static impression, no wind in the trees, all cars perfectly aligned and so on.

[maggy]

I'd swap that kitchen any day for mine. Looks very nice.
Just that clock... with the pendulum straight down it looks like it's not ticking. Please hang it in any other position so we can see it swing and hear its ticking.

[maggy]

What makes me curious is if you pun in all the hidden object like pistons and crack shafts as well? If so, than it would be very serious competition for mister Engels' drawings.

[maggy]

Strange that there are so few left. I can remember that when I was a child in the summer there were always two triplanes (perhaps later models) flying with banners over the beach. I later heard that these two were turned into scrap metal when they were no longer safe to fly in.
Was being a plane fan out of fashion for quite some years? I guess an original triplane in the worst possible condition should fetch a fortune on Ebay today.

[maggy]

Make it red, please. With a white flag/black cross on top of the highest wings. Manfred Von Richthofen deserves it, he made this plane famous.

http://www.collectors-edition.de/f-t-s_titel_english.htm says they have the complete set of drawings for sale, not cheap btw. They have 60 example drawings as free download. You probably knew, but better safe than sorry. BTW Engels E1 is the name of the exact replica of Fokker D1, maybe a bit confusing.

[maggy]

Rare indeed but it has happened to me and I've read some reports before. So I do keep backups of recent stages of my work.

P: Maggy

Could be useful with fixed points if you have to cut the same ellipse over and over again.

OTOH it could always come in handy to add a little flexibility to a design. Once I've witnessed a totally disastrous conversion of a cigarette packing machine to a different size of cigarettes. Absolutely every part of the machine had a fixed size optimized for the old size cigarette. At the end they came to the conclusion that it would have been much cheaper to build a whole new machine from the ground up.

P: Maggy

I wonder if anyone ever tried to use SU with a touch screen or tablet pc?

My first memory of touch screen technology wasn't very good at all. The local library tried to replace the cards and drawers by touch screen computers. The software was OK but the screens weren't very responsive. The more people hammered their fingers on it, the less responsive they became... and the dirtier they got.

Maggy

Gai,

If you'd really like to learn the differences between US and UK English (and become really confused), see
http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dictionary/dictionary.php

poster-Maggy

And one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over our screens.

poster-Maggy

I've been trying to turn the walking boots into an animation, but I've not yet succeeded.
Yes, I can copy them a lot of times to different layers, then turn on one layer per view, but it doesn't give me a smooth animation. Any suggestions?

poster-Maggy

My version of flatware
Download Model

Tom, although I don't have the slightest idea to which forum you might possibly be referring, I do believe I once heard the names "Dennis technique" and "Grant technique" somewhere for DWC.

I've been hurting my brain ever since I discovered this forum, how to create a DWC tutorial without plagiarism.

[Maggy]

Hi Tom,

It already looks great, but I would add SU>View>fog to give the impression of limited depth of field.

Why didn't I get Ruby in school, when I was 10 years old or so? Now, 40 years later it's very hard to grasp. The most frustrating part it that it looks so easy when I read a perfectly functioning ruby script. But it looks just as easy in a script that's not doing what I expect it to do...

I copied your code to "cornflakes.rb", loaded it, it shows up in Plugins, it adds milk to my cornflakes, but I do not see it grey out any menu item. So I started editing, editing, editing, each time closing SU, restarting it, reloading Cornflakes.rb till the milk and cornflakes were coming out of my ears, but still no greyed out menu items.

[Maggy]

Thanks.
Grey sounds good enough. But the only grey I can find is in the class Color document.
Can you tell me where to find more information?

[Maggy]

I know that it's very easy to add menu items, tool bars, context menu items with Ruby in Sketchup, but I tried to disable/hide/remove and as far as I can see that's not possible.
Any suggestions?

[Maggy]

Firefox has so many advantages over any other browser I know that I can't imagine switching. Especially the very many add on's make Firefox truely customisable.
But... bugzilla is still growing fast. And none of the bugs I ever reported has ever been solved...

I guess bugs are as much a fact of life in cyberspace as in nature...

P: Maggy