Susan My time is more limited right now but if you add me to the list and let me know when you are going to do a webex or other online demo SU meeting let me know and if I can attend I'll do so.

Regards

Phil

Batten down the hatches...Umm mother nature is one powerful woman.

For those of us in the design profession or anyone who has prepared multiple version of something like a recipe for instance. Let's all recognize that sometimes we can put in too much salt or too much pepper etc. I think the forum was suffering from too many options. I applaud the forum creators for deciding to make a new more simplified user interface. In this world of instant gratification we can get caught up in expecting things to be perfect immediately. Let's give Coen the time he needs to refine the recipe and then be polite guests and eat our food when it's ready. Err maybe a few glasses of wine or bottle of beer might make us less impatient...hehe.

GREAT job Coen I know you can not satify everyone but it appears that you are doing your best.

Well Done.

Frog Eye Window

Where did the render gallery go to?

FIrstly let's not forget to compliment the creators of SCF without them we would all be in an empty room talking to ourselves...well I do that anyway but it's really the only way I can have a conversation with someone as intelligent as I am...hehehe...

SO THANKS to the moderators and creators of SCF we would be lost without you..

Now on to my 2 cents... I'll make this short.

I think thee are too many specialty sub forums.

But that is just my opinion for the most part I visit forums in this order (1) the Sketchup Gallery, (2)the Renders gallery, (3)The Sketchup Discussion Forum, (4) the Corner Bar, and (5)the Ruby Discussion. Rarely if ever have I visited other forums, but I understand the need for them for other users.

In the end you are not going to satisfy ALL of the people ALL of the time so the moderators must make decisions.

Is there a way to control the user interface based on user preferences. For example when I log in would it be possible to have a start page that just showed the forums that I chose in my user preferences. So for instance my SCF start page would only have (5) forums listed. I could always choose to display more forums in the future but it would allow me to focus my attention on my five favorite forums. Just a thought.

you should post some su output in the su gallery these machines might look cool as renderings.

Hmm "and then sanitized" there is always the possibility of human error what if one or two leave the factory with this step omited....I think that's called double dipping....OK I do have a sick sense of humor.

I like the first and third one. The third one is the best. I like not seeing the edge of the underlying tin. the morphing strips can become the focal point and the background stays less noticeable but when we see the edge of the larger object then we perceive it as an object and it competes for attention with the squiggly streamers and their shadows.

Just my 2 cents.

Umm but I think there will be free food...I'm a sucker for free food.

as long as your heart is big enough to love your children unconditionally then all else will take care of itself. With the second on the way you need to know that the second child is actually more than double the work. but it's also more than double the pleasure. I have a six and a 4 year old and every day I am amazed and what a gift my wife and I have been given. All my sleep deprivation training in architecture school seems to have been for a purpose. Best wishes for a happy and healthy birth and continued success in your personal and professional life.

Regards

Phil

Senator pleaded guilty, reportedly after bathroom stall incident - CNN.com

A Republican senator pleaded guilty earlier this month to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge stemming from his arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, according to state criminal records.

(www.cnn.com)

he should have spoken with senator Craig about appropriate mens room behavior.

hint hint err were you tapping your foot while you were smirking...

now just add bunjie cords to the crane and you'll have a winner....

reminds me of a funny story...Way back when I was an intern for a firm in New York. I worked for a small firm with all guys on staff. all of them were close friends and played a lot of jokes on each other. one of the guys was dating and must have told the other guys that his girlfriend was having a pregnancy test done. so while he was out at lunch they had a girl call and pretend to be his girlfriend and leave a message with the receptionist...

so when this guy returned from lunch there was a phone message in the receptionist hand writing with his girlfriend name and the simple message "the rabbit died"....a reference to being pregnant....so now this guy thinks he's a father and all the stuff that goes along with it...of course his buddies want to know what's bothering him and start to console him and talk about the good old times he's going to miss out on now that he'll need to get married and have a family....they are laying it on pretty thick...of course they cant hold back the laughter for long and he realizes that he's just been punked....but then he realizes that he may not be a father and it's like the weight of the world has just been lifted from his shoulders...

well office pranks can be fun if you are just a bystander.

thanks for stirring up that happy memory in my mind.

Read any architecture magazine or article where there is associated 3d generated images and you will see Sketchup mentioned. It is the defacto computer sketching program. Can it survive if the programmers don't upgrade and improve it NO...but what software can. SU may suffer from it own success IE: it is successful because of it's simplicity. and it's simplicity may hold it back from further success. As the demand for BIM or what ever it's called these days grows and the client and architectural firm owners knowledge and expectations for integration between 2d (CAD) work and 3d BIM grows so to will the expectation that the 3d software that their designers use is seamlessly integrated into the complete project time line through construction etc. SU has and will always be primarily a visualization and presentation tool. It is not BIM and may never be. As the BIM software packages slowly integrate the presentation and visualization capabilities of SU the need for SU will diminish. I am afraid that the Google purchase and emphasis on SU as a simplistic modeling app for Google Earth or 3d warehouse model production it's development as a professional architectural BIM tool has diminished. I for one have never used REVIT but it seems to be the wave of the future for Architects and AutoCAD seems to be the legacy app.

You can also adjust the camera field of view down to say 1 or some very low number. Essentially staying in perspective view but getting closer and closer to orthographic projection.

@anglaret said:

Thank you Mateo
Anssi, I suppose that you have been annoyed by roofs retaining snow and leaking water in your country; a good contractor solve it quite well round here
Marc

Why leave resolution to the contractor. Good design could solve it with out a contractor.

I know it's possible to do many things I just think why make things difficult when good design could make them simple.

Having the garage roof drain towards the gable end of an adjoining structure is in my opinion bad design.

you could easily add a saddle to the design to drain water to the front and back of the garage with out too much noticeable design revision.

just my opinion.

nice rendering though.

Ahhh I always knew that the ruby Gurus would redefine SU and bring it into a new realm of software spiritualism.

SIgn me up for a beta version.

call your plugin "zendiv" for Zen Divisions

wow crayons are incredibly fragile I know my fat and pushy fingers have broken many right in half. this must have taken a lot of patience.