Its pretty good, and i understand its hugely powerful in the right hands, but its just so slow. Doing anything takes forever. Im not very fond of the whole parts and assembelies thing either, i prefer SUs groups and components.

Try making a petal with mapped texture, do not group or make into component. Now export as .3ds with full hierachy, export texture maps and preserving texture coordinates checked. Now open a new instance of SU and import the .3ds model and make it a component (should already be one) and try manipulating shape and see if this helps.

Im obviously behind the times

@remus said: How good are the meshes form the points? Pretty damn messy, the one time I used this. Anything out of "line of sight" of the laser emitter was ignored, so you had to rebuild the missing faces using the faces it did sample. I assume that more sophisticated versions of this (or more sophisticated users) would allow you to move the unit around, fixing its position with GPS, and assemble a more complete scan. And it was slow, too. Another student at my grad school scanned someone dancing, and then milled out a (very abstract) flowing relief sculpture...the mesh was composed of multiple periods in the dance, frozen into one giant mesh about eight feet long.

Hi. Has anyone found a solution for the problem Solo mentioned earlier? I've got Win XP 64 and the plugin doesn't work with the 64 bit Demo. There isn't any menu or toolbar of Fryrender in Sketchup. But it doesn't give an error. Thanks

September october, so not very long but ive got a good month where i havent got anything else to do, so hopefully i'll get a lot of it done by then.

Profilers, analysts, psychologist, therapists and judges. We have the ability and training available as well as a little common sense can provide a judge with the information require as to whether a man should pay pennants with his life. I for one am okay with that. Mike RL

Ahhh. Wimbledon. The downs what a great venue for a sporting event. I cannot say that I am in complete agreement with the outcome however. Secretairiet at 6 furlongs on a muddy track is usually a lock at 6/5 But his penalty kick is weak from the blue line is weak from his left. Not since the super secret winged keel Has a outcome been more one sided. But my main point is after the 4th chucker wimbledon is not nearly as relevant as NASCAR. GOD

.....on this matter, I just noticed last night that one of the UK TV channels is doing a program on what happened to Building Number Seven! Should be interesting to hear about the reasons for is collapse

@remus said: Did you do any significant distance on your tandem? Any tips? Main tip I have is make sure your fitness levels are pretty high ready for when you do it! I imagine hill climbs are pretty tough on tandems. Good luck though, sounds fun.

Didnt think of that

I too am happy with Vista now (after the last service pack) however if they are considering a new version how about: [image: microglassmo3.jpg]

oh, cheffey, I am flattered no, I am not working as interface designer (if I would, I would redesign SketchUp to look like the iPhone ). I am a mere student, currently working in london. my only goal is to give our beloved Ruby Gods ideas for their amazing plugins (well, if the Google guys were inspired by it and we find some nice new tools in SU7, I won't complain )

@remus said: @unknownuser said: The NHS is widely opposed to natural medicines that just don't work. Indeed they dont work in a traditional way, but in a lot of cases, just taking something (whatever it might be) can help a lot of people. Its pretty cheap as well. having said that, i still love the NHS. Free healthcare for everyone is a brilliant idea, even if it does have its downsides. I think a problem with the NHS is that the normal aproach to any health problem is to throw tablets at it (which all have side effects) I think that spending more time talking to patients and thinking outside the box a little would improve treatment. Also, the NHS seems to be pretty poor at dealing with mental health problems. I'd much prefer the NHS to private health care though - I'd probably be dead or hugely in debt without it!

My 5 (no particular order :`) flavored ice...all forms: slurp-ee to snowcone flushable toilet paper toenail clippers cotton candy...took my breath away first time (age 4) I experienced one being made the short story form

@jackson said: Ross, I never understood the fuss about Dr. Who either. I guess when it began in the 60's, in B&W it must really have captured the imagination of British children (like Mr S above!) , but by the time I was old enough to watch it (the 80s) it was just low budget, cheesy sci-fi. Now it's a high budget (by UK standards!) cheesy sci-fi with "stars" queuing up to cameo in it- it really feels like a case of the emperor's clothing to me.... sorry Dr Who fans! ...that said, daleks definitely ARE cool. I actually regularly watched the Doctor on (American) PBS, as a child in north Florida in the seventies and eighties. Cheesy side effects aside, it was often (not always) the best-written piece of science fiction available at the time. And where else would you find a hero whose response to the possible destruction of all life would typically be something like, "Would you like a jelly baby?" I haven't quite enjoyed the new ones as much...somehow, the one where a stereotypically-arrogant-and-crass American superbillionaire nearly destroys the world (or maybe just Salt Lake City) by resurrecting a crash-landed Dalek for his "collection" of alien artifacts ended the charm for me...and I'm usually not terribly sensitive to cultural bashing (and that really wasn't that rough a bashing either).

oh yeah, forgot about that Although i still dont think those will be enough to tempt me away yet, i dont do many scenes with complex light setups, so adjusting them isnt too much of a problem normally.

pshh! ive already seen it! this is kind of redundant, because all the car people would have already heard of it! there are entire magazines all full of car stuff. (i get three per month, im pretty informed) still, i like it. mr bangle's "flame surfacing" desing method has alwas been a love-hate kind of thing, but i always thought it looked cool.

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