As fast as ever on East Coast.

Very funny Daily Show about Apple:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes

No offense to all you spiral stair makers but the wide stairs that you show with winders coming to a narrow point would be very dangerous (especially in descent). I would suggest a bigger inside hole or solid radius to assure a minimum tread depth. That's why typical library or residential stairs are quite narrow in width so as to keep a person in the middle of the tread with proper depth for the foot. Such wide stairs with point winders would be prohibited by code in the US, even for non-egress stairs in commercial stuctures.

Verizon FIOS

You can make layers at any time, but remember ALWAYS to draw objects on Layer 0. Then make groups or components and move those items to another layer. Layers only control visibility, the do not separate geometry. You can quickly control what layers you want to appear while working by making scenes and assigning what layers are visible. In your case with the existing models, simply group the vegetation and "move" it to a layer. No need to start over.

Smustard has bomb.rb (free) that explodes everything in the model:
http://www.smustard.com/script/Bomb

A scupper?

Bravo, and thank you Daniel

Our brave little East Nantmeal Township got cited by The Weather Channel as getting the most snow in the Delaware Valley yesterday (26.8") which also means the most snow in PA. That's on top of 24" saturday. Not a pretty sight.

Ditto to Adam. We are about 15 miles east and got 24" this weekend -- snowing now and predicted for 20" more. Should make for some nice pictures.

@earthmover said:

Wow Eric...scary and beautiful at the same time. Alabama is not known for it's tornadoes that I know of. Is this a rare occurrence? In PA, we've had a couple small ones in recent years, but nothing like in the Midwest plain states. Too many mountains and valley's up here.

I remember a real tornado in Montgomery County PA (near Limerick, suburb of Phila) back in the early 90's. It ripped aluminum siding from industrial buildings, drove a sofa through our office block wall, and killed a family with a baby. They found the baby's savings bond far north in Allentown, PA. Scary, more powerful than most can imagine (the aluminum siding was actually torn, with rough edges!). Hills and valleys don't guarantee protection.

Dennis, the whole sketchup community, myself included, are greatly in your debt. Way back you effectively showed us how to achieve great NPR images very quickly. ..."never in the field of rendering have so many owed so much to Dennis"....

What about Form Fonts?
http://www.formfonts.com/search.php?query=new+Models&&area=1&dimensions=3&site=

Gaius,
If you could edit Gretchen's first post that would be nice.

@gretchen said:

@pmiller said:

Gretchen,
I have a copy (including the CD) and I would be glad to send it to you (if I can find it, but I just saw it the other day so hopefully I can). Just PM me with your address.

Wonderful. I am new at this, and I do not know what PM actually stands for. My email address is... Please write to me directly and I will fill in the information you need. Many thanks, Gretchen

Sent you a PM and separate email as well. Please heed Gaius' advice and remove your email address from your posts - just edit your post.

Gretchen,
I have a copy (including the CD) and I would be glad to send it to you (if I can find it, but I just saw it the other day so hopefully I can). Just PM me with your address.

@bloonose said:

Sussed the problem I was having by using the follow me tool tutorial but I dont seem to have any plugin link, when I click Window I can see Ruby Console, but that's all I can find. When I see other peoples versions it has a plugin link at the top?

Thanks

Go to menu: windows/preferences/extensions/ and turn on ruby examples -- then you will get the plug-ins menu.

A good listing, with links to reviews:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/WB/WB.HTM

Take a good look at the Canon T1i

Check out TBD's randor.rb - just what you want for randomizing tree sizes and rotation. Best used in concert with drop.rb.

Google explicitly states that you can use SketchUp Free version for commercial use (as pointed out by Gaius). What could a reseller (of the Pro Version) possibly have to say about the Free version except maybe to get you to buy the Pro version?