There's a new meeting announced for Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 6:30 PM in San Francisco is anyone is interested:
http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-SketchUp/events/16949298/
Maybe I'll see you there.

• Martin

I just watched an episode - it didn't really live up to my memories of the show.

@numbthumb said:

You don´t necessarily have to be a Brit of a certain age to know that ship
Nevertheless, nice work!

I use my wife as the yard stick - she likes Sci-fi, 40+ like me, but American and she hadn't heard of Blake's 7 (or Space 1999, or Joe 90)

You have to be a Brit of a certain age to know this ship. This a model of the Liberator from the BBC Sci-Fi show "Blake's 7" from the late 70's. I just posted the model to the warehouse http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=58508096a7c45a9b7bc588a73b633c22 and did a quick render in Twilight. I based my SU model as much as possible of the model made originally for the show here: http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.co.uk/liberator-blakes_7.html

I did the same thing: keep halving the frame with lines to find the issue. It looks like there were just a couple of remnants of lines sticking into the frame that were preventing the surface from being created. I don't know an easier way to do this.

• Martin

mirror half.skp

@unknownuser said:

You could try exporting your scene to Kerkythea(free) and rendering in that. It's a studio based app so it handles large scenes with ease.

@Martin

SU is now LAA enabled so if you run it on 64bit systems it avails of extra RAM.

Thanks for the heads up - I did try to work SU hard and monitor the amount of CPU and RAM consumed - I can't get SU to take more than half the 8gb I have installed even when it was struggling to manipulate a 500k edge model. Is there something I can do to improve this? I'm running Vista 64.

I just downloaded it without a problem - can you download other files?

I'm guessing you've gone through the suggestions on sketchup sage: https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/faster/ ? I believe SketchUp is a 32 bit app and can't use more than 2gb memory.

The self-driving BMW on Top Gear a couple of seasons back was better on the track: scary fast http://www.streetfire.net/video/126-top-gear-self-driving-bmw_180380.htm

As a handheld video guy I am more excited about the changes coming to iMovie for iOS (much more control and multi-track audio) and Garageband for iOS. It's all about the apps these things run rather than the devices themselves.