@pmolson said: Question 1. Do you actually use a 4k yourself? nope and surely won't because to much strain to the eyes, but click on "etc." above for further info concerning this issue. @pmolson said: Question 2. Wondering if i run two displays... wouldn't recommend multi-monitor setups because regularly difficult with OpenGL-based 3D applications and also may mix up toolbar positions etc. because of negative screen coordinates if e.g. monitor #2 is placed left from the main monitor #1. @pmolson said: Question 3. Any Idea when sketchup will support 4k displays? nope but obviously not before SU v2018 not avail before roughly end of this year... if included. in short, don't try this @ home

@daniel said: Well, Paul, you know me - I'm gonna be honest and blunt. I find this batch of renderings to be pulchritudinous. If English poet John Keats was right when he wrote that "a thing of beauty is a joy forever," then pulchritude should bring bliss for many years to come. That word has already served English handsomely for centuries; it has been used since the 1400s. It's a descendant of the Latin adjective pulcher, which means "beautiful." Pulcher hasn't exactly been a wellspring of English terms, but it did give us both pulchritude and pulchritudinous, an adjective meaning "attractive" or "beautiful." The verb pulchrify (a synonym of beautify), the noun pulchritudeness (same meaning as pulchritude), and the adjective pulchrous (meaning "fair or beautiful") are other pulcher offspring, but those terms have proved that, in at least some linguistic cases, beauty is fleeting. You have always shown yourself to be sapient, and you have shown that again in your critique of my work. Thanks Daniel

Until I get a report I don't know that it's bust! I'll put a warning the Plugin's main thread...

Thanks again for the Ideas. Turned out to be the graphic cards driver. It was up to date, but the current driver somehow created a problem with su2017. The previous driver also had the same problem, so we had to roll the driver back two releases. Probably not coincidentally, two drivers ago was when I installed "the gforce experience" application that is designed to prompt you when new drivers are available so you can stay current with the actual manufactures latest and greatest. I actually thought it would be better to let the manufacture prompt me rather than let windows update handle when and what gets updated. I have had two instances with this gtx1080 gpu in the recent past where windows has changed the driver for me and it has caused problems so I was trying to be smart by going to the gforce experience. I guess i will just let windows do its thing and put the fires out after. p

@pmolson said: ...takes my very fast computer about 8 hours... and the result is worth waiting every hour!

For anyone that is having this issue: Trimble team has responded to me that it is a known problem and it is on the list of things to be addressed. A work around I have found is as follows. After opening the file you intend to work on, open a second new session. Do not save the new session. If you want to work with a dynamic component, insert it into the unsaved file, make your adjustments, and copy/paste it into the model you are actually working on. Just leave that unsaved file open and do not save it and you can continue to use it for dc adjustments. Pain in the behind, but at least I can keep functioning while waiting for a real solution. I use dynamic windows in all my home models so I can't live without this feature. paul.

@daniel said: @pmolson said: My first ever dusk shot. I learned a lot. The next one I should have time to refine a bit. VERY NICE! We'll expect more of these in the future. No excuses.

@hellnbak said: Just for the record, I did mean 0.skp, as in... Dredging up old stuff. There are two different messages that seem to pop up. One is related to creating backup files that get named 0.skb and the other like Paul and I had. Yours seems to make it three.

Glad I could help. Looks like i've earned my top sketchucator badge for the day. Awesome work by the way.

More conceptual! Rules : your ball must touch 3 rails cushions in the process! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st0d_-5ULIw

Looks fantastic, Paul. But I'm a wisenheimer, so what do I know?

@daniel said: It was built just as you designed it? That contractor is worth his weight in gold! I must be transparent. I am not the designer on this Project, just the lowly illustrator. I must also say that the model was updated as the designer and builder made changes along the way. So, it was not a fairy tale project where builder, client, and designer were all in perfect harmony and the design was never tweaked, adjusted, bitched about, undid, redid, loved, hated,....but, as far as these big ones go, it was pretty smooth all and all. p

Wow. Looks great!

Thank you Tadema Your welcome Daniel

Excellent work! Truly top shelf.

Gorgeous!

Emarald 15, Thanks for the nice comment. I like that they made you want to relax with a cool Ice tea. A unique compliment.

pbacot, I use Podium for rendering. I will have to jump over there and see if I can find a way to do what you are suggesting. I should have thought to look at my render program for a process. Thanks

Thanks Box, that did it! Also made it very obvious that I had a few faces reversed.

@panixia said: nice vid! and nice house.. +1 Many things in your video that I need to learn (like how to do the terrain with a model like this).