really sorry but i don't quite understand what you are asking, do you need help modeling this shape?

oh and for the record water droplets are perfectly spherical.

he he

pav

is that not the point of a smilie?

he he

pav

personally i really don't care much for the US presidential elections, i'm growing weary of all the press coverage of it too.

i am but one opinion though.

pav

this is really cool,

thank you very much

pav

i can usually be found either here:

http://www.theparrotcanterbury.co.uk/

here:

http://www.pubsandbeer.co.uk/index.php?ID=P&pub=382

here:

http://www.bramleysbar.com/main_site.html

here

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/400305243_95c134f456.jpg?v=0

don't think i've had more than 3 days go past without visiting at least 2 of these (excluding holidays)

oh dear, what a sad life i lead. he he

pav

@cadfather said:

sure Pav, however the need arises when you more complicated geometry than an arc - not all lines are the same in SU - you have Curves, Polygons, and of course a whole load of Beziers..

i think it would be great if you could subdivide the particular portion of such entities

ah now i get it, i figured you just wanted to use it on a regular curve. my bad.

fair doos, would be quite useful now i think about it.

pav

surely curves are divided already, just specify the amount of sides before you draw it.

pav

hmm, spam alert?

i just don't know

pav

well that is how i would have done it.

glad to know i'm not going insane!

maybe some sleep for me now....

pav

how did you get the zip to wrap around the "gooch" area? i can't work it out (admittedly i've been up for 38 hours so my brain is like mush)

oh and please excuse the term gooch, didn't know what else to call it ?!

pav

it's cool, i fixed it.

well i say i fixed it, looks as though sketchup was warming itself up for a bugsplat.

happy days

pav

oh and the tapemeasure tool also doesn't appear to be working?

regards

pav

just doing some work on my mac laptop, after some time using my desktop pc.
does anyone else who has a mac notice that the orbit function is insanely jerky? or am i just being a fool on yet another occasion?

any help greatly appreciated

pav

so have we concluded that the LHC is a good thing then?

pav

oh yeah that's one of those rafe-trafe-rom-com-interface-databases.

pav

hi i'm pav and i set shortcuts for every tool in sketchup and then don't use half of them.

it is rather ironic that stupidity is only painful for those not possesing it
he he

pav

no no no biebel, that's the LHC plug-in for sketchup 7.0.

comes in a bundle with the ongoing_argument.rb.

pav

the theory of Global Warming works on the basis that CO2 is an atmospheric greenhouse gas and as it increases temperatures rise. the next "logical step" was to say that as humans were producing more(though only very marginally) CO2 than before, the temperature would inevitably rise. The theory was accepted before testing had even been started, and now it is just widely accepted despite many prolific scientists opposing arguments.

the consensus was reached before the research had even begun, and as such any scientist who dares to question the prevailing wisdom is marginalized and called a sceptic.

Politicians have done little to help, feeding the fire, yet more scare mongering.
it has already been proved that the worlds climate fluctuates, and there is a very strong link between climate change and the earths magnetic poles flipping, which we are due to have soon.

the human race's contribution to "global warming" is about 0.28%, and water vapour (which is largely ignored as it is not counted as a gas) is aporximately 95%.

any vain attempt we do have to reduce our emmisions, will go laregly undetected, as our output is dwarfed by natural causes.

rante over

pav

@toxicvoxel said:

While S. David King is not a specialist in quantum physics, he is a specialist on global warming. The focus of his statements are about global warming, not particle physics, and from this perspective it is important not to dismiss his arguments. He is certainly more qualified than you or I to take the position that he has.

i suspect the amount of money piled into research on "global warming" has far outnumbered that of the LHC.

personally i think global warming is the biggest pile of horse crap i have ever heard of, while i agree there had been a difference in climate change, i refuse to believe we are responsible.
global warming is one of the biggest commercial industries on the planet, the more we are scared into thinking we are responsible, the more we spend on "being green".

the LHC may actually yield something useful, in fact i'm pretty sure the development of the machine itself probably has.

i've said it before and i'll say it again, serendipity.

pav