Im a Logitech fan as well and run an almost identical setup to Jim. I use a VX revolution for the lappy and a MX revolution for the desktop. They both run of their own USB dongles without any conflict.
The MX is fantastic.....cordless and with its own battery recharger!

Free version of SketchUp seems to work with WINE and Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my older workstation...

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However, fast feedback is disabled and there is a tendency for the window to go black for a few seconds following minimizing or resizing. There were a couple of unaccountable crashes while I had SketchUp minimized. The delete key doesn't delete (I have to use the Eraser on anything). And it seems a little slow...

I had to make some changes to the WINE Registry to get this to work (otherwise crash on startup):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp6\GLConfig\Display]
"FIRST_TIME"=dword:00000000
"HW_OK"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp6\Google SketchUp TOTD]
"HelpPage"="0"
"ShowOnStartUp"="false"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp6\SnappyInstructor]
"Show"="0"

This is on a quad-core Pentium D with four gigs and decent NVidia card with a half-gig of VRAM from about two years ago (there's no convenient system profiler in Ubuntu, or at least I can't find one, and offhand I don't remember what is in this).

Oh, and Compiz needs to be turned off from Appearance Preferences > Visual Effects.

Is this worth doing just to be free of Windows or Mac OS? I don't know. It's likely there are some bugs I haven't found yet. As opposed to wasting a few hours seeing if the Pro version will work on one of my machines on Linux, it might make more sense to adapting my working methods to some Linux-native app.

It wasn't incidental that Solo wrote that... 😉

Well what I basically did to get those was create several reqtangles and spread them throughout your boat with section spacing between them, after that intersect with model and I deleted the edges and faces of the reqtangles so that I was left with nothing but the intersected geometry of your boat. After that it was just a matter of cleaning up that geometry...

My wife complains about the noise, not the light coming from my little corner of the room. Funny, I don't hear anything...

@bertb said:

Isn't about the same as my 3D Navigator?
It is already a very usefull tool in SU;
More info required

Roger that "More info required"... which one do you have?
I ran a quick search and came up with following...

http://www.ascension-tech.com/products/3dnavigator.pdf

http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/space-explorer-3d-navigator-no-more-clinking-work/

Sure is a lot of stuff goin' on in the 3D world!

I've found myself doing it in autocad recently...

Hey Ross,

Everytime I look at your Avatar I think I'm looking at my mut, Jock. I'd say he's a big as your Westie now and quite a handfull but good fun to have around.

Sorry guys for jumping in with an oddity, Paint. Net looks to be a good program but only Win 😒

Mike

Thanks Gidon,

Your tutorial makes it so clear. (I think Sketchup must be the absolute best device for graphic description of itself that I've ever seen!)

BTW....Your tagline....
"If you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there"
Funny- I just got my new GPS 2 days ago 😆