Yeah Torel, kind of a mixed bag, but I'm focusing on the positive side too.

Thanks Rich 😄

Thank you Rich. 👍

I don't exactly understandt what you said, but I tried exporting from su importing blender and exporitng from there. Reimported into SU the mesh is as it should be but imported in max it's still no good...but anyway apparently a solution has been found in max.

http://www.lifelock.com/

You are right Thomthom. It did occur to me that it might be glued but when I checked it wasn't glued. I probably right clicked on some other component in there and didn't notice... 😳

@bryan k said:

Wow! Great render. 👍

@unknownuser said:

A Space Ferrari! ☀
Else do you know this thing ? 😉

Thanks. A Ferrari is not really the look i'm after. I'll have to texture it to make it look better. It's gonna take a while.

Wow, that's cool.

@crazy eyes said:

love the way that your models look like parts are made of plastic and are clipped on

Thanks, though that is not intentional.
I'm glad you like it. 😄

I have been relaxing for a few hours now and while I'm not as stressed out as I was when I made the thread, I'm still concerned about the major issues in the world and in my country.

The constant news feed is not the issue, it's what is in the news. I don't watch tv almost at all nowadays, just check stuff out on facebook, autoblog, popsci, deviantart and here. Even so the big issues trickle down into my perception.

I acknowledge that there are good, fuzzy and funny things happening all over the world and people are indeed working on solutions for our problems, but I'm still frustrated at the situation we are in.
I'm not in despair or panicked, most of time I'm hopeful and positive about the future, but we all must be aware of the ongoing problems and be concerned about the way they are handled. It's pretty obvious that with things being as they are we can't go on the same path forever, some part of the system will break and if we are not ready, our whole global civilization will go down the toilet.

By some estimates we may have as little as 15-20 years before our consumerist grotwth based economy completely collapses, other estimates put climate change as a major ireversible problem by 2050.

With those two gigantic problems looming overhead and awaiting a solution what are the governments of the world doing now? This is what really irks me, they're making laws to limit individual freedom in order to increase the profits of corporations, they're trying to outlaw abortion because of religious bullshit, even here in my country, some people are talking about reinstating the death penalty here....while others do the always present fighting, killing and massacring of innocents.

I guess it's just as well we're going back to the middle ages socially because it's quite possible our grandchildren will actually live in it.

I see the world is getting better and better, but some aspect are getting worse so I'm really afraid we're going to lose this world if we are careless or conceited.

Yeah it's awesome. No problem.

Yeah it's an on and off problem. If I go and check uncheck stuff in preferences it works a while than it appears again.

Quick go through Thea TR2

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Fun Models

Here's also the Low poly and sds version of my Flying car model.

SDS version

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/warehouse/getpubliccontent?contentId=1ccb7e7d-1f9c-416f-83b3-6c25e8499057

3D Warehouse is a website of searchable, pre-made 3D models that works seamlessly with SketchUp.

Low poly version

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/warehouse/getpubliccontent?contentId=74b10cab-60d0-4abd-8276-90cbb26f07a7

3D Warehouse is a website of searchable, pre-made 3D models that works seamlessly with SketchUp.

@jean lemire said:

Hi folks.

Try Window Menu --> Model info --> Components. Uncheck the box labeled "Show component axes".

Just ideas.

That's only to display component axes when you are outside the editing context. This new thing in v.8 is actually when the model axes are (temporarily) adjusted to the component axes when in editing mode.

Confused me a bit when it was new to me, too, but to be honest, it was very easy to get used to (and I like it this way)

A bit late for you but this is an interesting article.

The first para sets the tone:-

"Google isn’t a web application company—they’re an advertising company. That’s what they do best, and that’s what drives their company. Of Google’s $23.6 billion of revenue in 2009, all but $760 million of it was derived from advertising, and nearly 70 percent of it was from Google’s own websites."

So... follow the money.

Hi Frank.

First, thank you so much for working with me and having a great test case from which I was able to "fix" closeopens to work more efficiently.

As I rewrote closeopens, the first step, as you know, was to modify progressbar to allow the user to choose to cancel the process. After I did that, I went to rewrite the algorithm used by closeopens to make it MUCH more efficient. IIRC, the processing time for your model went from INFINITY (as in, it never did finish) to 52 seconds.

I was excited about modifying progressbar to make it V2, and have it apply globally to all the scripts that used it, but I was not able to crack that nut without also having a requirement to also modify each and every script that called it to allow the canceling of the process. This is where Progressbar 2.0 died.

However, closeopens does have Progressbar 2.0 functionality built-in, and, I have stalled bring closeopens to market, for some time now. And, while some attempts have been made by me to get it ready for packaging, I have broken the new copy. This is where I stand. I need to fix it, again, and then publish it. I will do this - but cannot promise when right now. My day job is demanding, and so are extra-curricular activities.

Todd

I´ve had more than my share of ups and downs trying to get a steady job, that I certainly do know how it feels.
Keep your head up, Marian. BTW I am getting a little impatient to see more of that fortress. 😄

Okay, it seems that the original link Aidan posted also works now.

You're welcome guys. 😉