TANSTAAFL

@mike.. you're either up too late or up too early.. either way, get to bed!

A couple of noteworthy things came to my attention today. The first relates to what is happening in my neck of the woods. When future generations of Irish were put into economic slavery by our cowardly elected political class to prop up the banksters around Europe the IMF set out requirements with regards to what happens with the country's assets. It now looks that these assets are being no sold off at bargain prices to the actual banksters that the populous propped up in the first place! It has happened in Greece and is now happening in Ireland. Next I imagine will be Portugal, Spain, Italy etc etc. Its mind boggling to say the least. However it looks that many folks here are actually now understanding what is taking place in spite of little or no reporting by the so called nation media and getting quite pissed off. We have local and EU elections coming up on the 23rd May and it will be interesting to see which way the general vote goes. I have a feeling that the government parties that got the country into the mess in the first place and the shower that is currently playing along with the banksters will find out that they are not that popular any longer. I expect to see a huge swing to the 'left'. What happens after that will be interesting! On the international front it looks like Russia is now continuing with the chess game! 'Russia strives to exclude the dollar from energy trading' http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_05_13/Russia-strives-to-exclude-the-dollar-from-energy-trading-5138/ This 'move' is little reported in the western media. From what I understood it would have taken years for Russia to organise a system to lessen the Petro Dollars influence but maybe it about to happen. As long as all sides (USA, EU, BRICKS) keep playing the chess game I am not too concerned as the 'man on the street' gets along which or ever. If it turns into something more than chess, that is a different matter.

Congratulations Mike. My Grandkids have been the light of my life. Enjoy every minute of them.

@mike lucey said: I'd appreciate any further information you may be able to gleen from the Uni site. I've compared the information and it seems that there are more in the English text, sorry, no more details...

We just finished a solar array for a customer. He had bought a Tesla model S car and wanted it to charge the car. After he made change after change it ended up being big enough to power his whole house! It is pointed south lol.

It's pretty amazing the things this program can do!... if you're ever able to figure it out. Jesus. I've been struggling so hard for the past 2 weeks trying to get a simple presentation to work. It's scary to see that people have had some of the same problems for years now. I've got my money, in hand ready to shell out a whopping $4200 a year ($600 to use the program, $300 a month to display unlimited models) but I'm having SO many problems trying to get it to work! The tutorials only cover so much, and you're left fending for yourself to figure it out. Also, Good Luck contacting Customer Support, I've gotten 2 responses back out of ~6 emails? According to the website they're only even available 6 hours a day, 4 days a week, so support is obviously not much concern for them there. Oh, did I mention, it crashes mercilessly? Seriously. I expect to reload the browser no less than 5 times in a 2 hour period (mostly when attempting to preview). Oh God, and there's no undo button so be careful! I would pay for customer support, if that's what it took! I want this program so badly, there's nothing like it. This program could be HUGE in the design world, if it wasn't so buggy, hard to learn, or as expensive (though, I can deal with the price). Unfortunately I really don't think it's near ready. I love this program. but I'm trying so hard to make it feasible, and getting nothing in return from the program, or the company. Hopefully there is a community out there for tutorials, or just other users because that is the only way I can see me moving forward. My boss has given me 2 more days to figure this out before he scraps this "venture" completely. TL;DR I love CL3VER, but CL3VER "wants to see other people".

@unknownuser said: tiny, electrofluidic cells now that I would love to see how that works exactly

@solo said: @unknownuser said: I couldn't imagine a gang sourcing a sketchup monkey to model some guns! I doubt a gang would take the time and effort to do it either as it will be easier to buy it from a black market dealer who will probably get the plans off the internet free anyway, and I also very much doubt it would be SU based plans, more solid works or Catia based. lol I know. I worked this out the second I tried 3D printing a "smooth" SU model....it came out completely faceted so I turned to MOI3D which I still haven't learnt! http://moi3d.com

Later today. You'll be emailed , there'll be a news post and forum announcement.

Nothing for the elbows, that can't be the must! Seems Peter Opsvik some ahead! Have cool surfing!

Hi Mike, I've been thinking about using Air display like this for a while. Unfortunately i don't have a tablet so i can't test it for myself, but i was wondering what opportunity there is to take advantage of the touchscreen functionality. With my 13" MBP i quickly run out of space for toolbars and trays, and i've been wondering if i could park them all on a tablet, and select tools, control layers, scenes and styles etc by touching the screen. If i knew for sure that this was possible i'd probably go out and buy a tablet tomorrow. Have you tried anything like it with your set up? Is there a reason why it wouldn't work?