Hey 8 year old me - I had to go to bed early and didn't get to watch it because I had to wake up at 04:15 for work. Find a job that doesn't make you do that! 😆

Great share Paul, and from Krisidious on another thread.

This does pose the question though, Electrical / Plumbing information as 2D overlays in Layout, or part of the 3D model in Sketchup? Makes sense in 3D I guess because any internal elevations will have the information included, although going to take a careful approach to layer status.

Wow, that's truly useful, thanks for the link.

Thank you Paul
What a super set you have done.
Most generous. 👍 👍 👍
18 wheelers too.

Noel +++++

dtr

@paul russam said:

The US call them Big Rigs or Semi's, In the UK we call them lorries or arctic's(articulated). As we have many nations here I thought it was prudent to give the post a tile that covered all the bases 😄

Thanks for the information. I thought the only difference was, US is left-hand drive while UK is right-hand drive...hoho 😆

Wow! I wish my "real world" had tiles like that. Thanks for sharing this, Paul

Peter

Thanks these will be handy
Regards Scotty

thank you for the info sir 👍

Tonight's Render
3000x2250 Image looking from altar towards front doors with depth of field effect to focus eye on roundal in front of altar (I hope 😄 )
Click to View Progress - Updated every 10mins

Edit:
Instead of creating a new post, I'll just edit this one.

Here's the finished render and the pure SU view:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nA0Oup8RJ4Y/T0Nb9g7fdEI/AAAAAAAAGHY/0y-yEFEp2Fg/s700/Test24-Easy09-F14-Exp20.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A2n560wyWVA/T0NcGf9qtNI/AAAAAAAAGHc/NtlFCJ7LifE/s700/Test24-SU.jpg

Something is not quite right with the rendering, if your look at the roundal on the floor you can see 1/4 of it look different, I've make it in 4 quarters so I could get 4x1200pix images for the texture(s).
In every other view its fine, I changed nothing and all the settings match in the 4 materials so I'm not sure what's going on.

Bruce,

Cool - different and interesting. I like the display that you have chosen. This looks very much like a Corel/Illustrator vector drawing. Could you post another view so we can appreciate the 3D?

That magazine make it in the mail yet? 😄

P: Shaun Tennant

that's what I noticed, too, Paul, excellent proportions!
my two SU artists at home just turned 8 and they have not done as "proportional" work as this kid does naturally! 👍

of course, now they just want to build something quick so they can jump to rendering in Twilight... but 😒 what are you gonna do.

Hello all, thanks for the comments. Personally I need all the help I can get to produce a decent image, I'm OK at the building side of things but when it comes to anything artistic I'm usually stumped.

Scott,
Holy S*** Scott, I'm episodic so only get them periodically, I don't think I could cope with chronic CH's, 14 months @ 7-8/day...boy you must be going through the pure oxygen faster than a rain forest can make it!

EDIT:
I wrote the stuff below before I re-read Scots post and realised that what he's suffering is measurably worse than I go through, I was going to take it out because I wrote it assuming Scott was new to the world of CH's and some of it would have been/is patronising.
I've decided to leave it here in case there is anyone else out there who suffers or more importantly doesn't know that the excruciating pain they get all of a sudden at 3am every day is actually treatable.
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I've suffered from cluster headaches for about 8 years, the first batch were about 6-10 events and as I didn't know they were CH's. I just used regular pain med's putting them down to stress - FAIL!
When I got the 2nd batch (15-20 events) about a year later I was straight down the doctors and was very very lucky to have a doctor who had studied neurology and knew them straight away. They are often mis-diagnosed for years in some people leading a number of them to commit suicide. CH's are also known as suicide headaches by the way!!
The doctor prescribed me Imigran tablets(Sumatriptan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatriptan. These are MAGIC tablets, never have I taken any med's that and have an effect so quickly; about 1/2-3/4 hour from taking one to pain free.
Since then I've had them about every 18 months with (worryingly) the last 2 clusters lasting about 2 months with on average 2 attacks a day.
For this most recent cluster (40-50 events)I got Imigran Injections, they're like the disposable ones diabetics use that do all the nasty work for you, all you have to do is put it against your thigh and press the button....Ouch! WOW what a difference; 10 mins from pain to COMPLETELY pain free.
The only problem with Sumatriptan is that any more than 2 tablets/injections in 24 hours and you run the risk of stopping your heart. I weighed this up on a couple of occasions and chose the chance of death over the CH pain and took once or twice upto 4 in 24 hours!!

Here's some links:
Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache
Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headache (UK based):
http://www.ouchuk.org
US Cluster headache site:
http://www.clusterheadaches.com

I downloaded this. It is a well constructed, useful little spreadsheet. Thanks

D

Windowizer4 will cut the opening in the wall and create any storefront-type glazing for you. You can then quickly add the surrounds using a component or a Dynamic Component. You can also replace the window & frames with a pre-built component, if you want.

@unknownuser said:

Remember the "backwards" episode?!

LOL yeah, best bar fight I've ever seen.

I'm gonna go the shameless self-promotion route and advocate for this plugin that warns you when you are editing multiple components - Dan Rathburn wrote it for me: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=54082

Thanks for sharing Paul

absolutely astounding work! wow.

Congrats Paul! It's a very nice machine! ...hmm...we used to call the ctrl + alt + delete machines the "dark side"... strange times indeed 😉

There are already several Rubies out there that make grids of clines at XY (and Z) spacings - grid.rb, 3d_grid.rb, numbered_grid.rb etc. There's also a parametric 2D version you can adjust later on - think that's on SUp site ?

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