Thanks Gai,
I was wondering myself if i had missed this as a tool and was not seeing it.
Best,
Omar

Is it possible in Layout 2.1 to offset a simple polyline?

or use TIG's obj importer.

thanks wyatt. following your tutorial i was able to make sense of Tree[d] and make reasonable trees. best,

@tfdesign said:

I must say, there is SketchUp horror out there too!

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

(sketchup.google.com)

This one is a keeper!

Sorry all, was not my intention to start a debate. I ran into his blog quite accidentaly, and I am glad I did. Having said that, Chris' assesment is right on. In his rant Sam fails to follow his own dictum that one has to also study what is being left out, in his case Sam should also study what is being left out from the "representational repertoire" of whatever other software is being pushed in schools these days.

Full disclosure: I am the product of one such schools (a US counterpart anyway). Consequently, I have spent ten years of my career diffusing the koolaid I drank back then.

Also, I am a proud sketchup user.

Thought you all might want to read this article
http://strangeharvest.com/wp11/

I am having a similar issue with my ATI radeon mobility video card. as soon as my work computer was upgraded to windows 7 i started having the same issues. In addition, there are other video issues with textures getting distorted as i zoom in and out of a group. very strange.
To compound the problem, lenovo (my laptop's manufacturer) seems to be slow on updating the drivers for this video card on their website. Going to AMD (now the owners of ATI) yields no results either. I wonder if reverting the drivers to an earlier working version would work? any thoughts?

thanks to this tread i just discovered fotosketcher. Where have i been all this time? I have found my true calling!

Very nice Csaba, i'd love to see a tut on this.

Very nice icon indeed Andy!

my duh! moment, toggling control while erasing to hide edges rather than erasing them!

@Glenn,

Brilliant!Thanks for the tip.

thanks bjanzen!

But what about the sequential styles with the "1,2,3,4" and so on? I have this happen to me on occasion specially when i use my own sketchy style creations and i try to tweak the view of the model.
Best,

john,

thanks for taking the time to answer these. I am very appreciative of your support.

looks like a "sketchup's-evil-brother" icon.

@krisidious said:

I too see SketchUp as a serious threat to Auto-CAD for Residential Architects like myself... Autocad does not consider us in the least... all of the new AutoDesk software is built around grid-dimensioning. if Layout could dimension precisely it would be a dream... I recently tried to use it for construction documents but dimensioning the floorplans was just too cumbersome and messy... the precision in the drawing was also insufficient at 24x36 with 1/4" scale.

why is there no Ruby in Layout?

I ache for the day when I can toss AutoCAD...

I'm not impressed enough with this version to upgrade from Pro 7.1 to 8... perhaps after I see more of where this thread goes.

Kristoff, i totally agree with you. it would be great if we could get more from Layout if it only supported ruby, and the great developers that roam these forums. i too yearn for the day i don't have to dealt with Acad.

@thomthom said:

Will there be videos availible of these glimpses? And BaseCamp events in general?

Agreed! it would be great to see some of the proceedings.

TIG

This is awesome! Thanks!