It is very very fast. I'm not 100 percent sure but I know overall my system was using close to 5gb with just SU and Podium 64 running. It really takes advantages of as many CPU threads as possible, It is still going to be limited by SU in terms of geometry it can handle and I tried rendering a scene that had over 1 million polys worth of 3d plants and it just couldn't handle it which isn't a big deal I just replaced one component with a 2d plant and it dropped the model down 90% and rendered quick. For a quick one click in SU solution it is pretty good. I'm getting into Thea for more complex stuff.

Andrew, I think I have incorporated all the changes you suggested except make the treads components. Maybe in version 3. Stair Maker

Yes, exactly, any plane (defined by the initial face). This is why I drew the face horizontally. Face-lock is very useful when drawing extremely complex roofs for instance, too. Just adding details (or healing missing parts) you need not use a plugin or a complex intersection method.

Just did a test on a sphere with 15K faces, rendered in Twilight on High with a porcelain template applied. Rendered by it's self with one sketchup open -- 48 sec. Same sphere copied to a second sketchup and both rendering simultaneously - both finished in 1 min 20 seconds. Twilight showed both sessions using all 8 cores in my machine. Whether rendering one scene or both, cpu was maxed out. Not sure, but on a lower spec'd machine, perhaps turning down the priority setting when trying to render two sessions simultaneously could help prevent a bottleneck in the ram. (My specs are i7 960 CPU, 12 GB of ram, Nvidia GTX 560ti GPU, running on an Asus Rampage III extreme mobo.)

thanks everyone, I'll surely backup my data on an external hardisk then

@rock1 said: well i'd make my question more specific. i'm talkin' about the linear dimension that appear, using the dimension tool. i want them to appear in metres We all understood your question. I don't know how much more simply we could have answered it. Thank you Gerrit. You're right.

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=158683

Well, I have a stock of 50 (now only 49) writeable DVD's. Since I began my freelancing small business, this was the first time the client wanted a "hard copy" of the product (a movie) and this was the only way to deliver. Sigh... What can I say? Eurocrats with their 50-year-old rules. Good they did not want it on film.

Surely there's a Coreldraw forum where you could get your question answered.

I believe the little one with the green dot is a SET Centerpoint tool. Don't quote me. . .but If you undock the tool bars, won't you see the name of the plugin?

Adding custom feeds to Gmail 'Web Clips'

Also, if you go to that person's photostream, just start typing in the search box in the upper right corner. It should prompt you if you want to search in everyone's photos (default) or just in John Jameson's photos. It gives other options as well, but in your case you would choose just John Jameson's photos. Chris

I'm late to this party, but still . . . In the CMD window, try out the "tree" command for help, type tree /? This will output a tree-structured listing of a directory and its subdirectories. tree /f gives the list of directories and their files tree /a uses plain ASCII characters to make the "lines" for the branches note: the appearance of the tree depends on your using a monospace font instead of a proportional-spaced font. Courier is the name of one monospace font. To output to a file, use the redirect symbol, e.g.: tree (path and directory name) /f /a > treelisting.txt If your directory path or directory name has spaces in it, you should enclose the path and name in quotation marks

XP is a dead end road. W7 needs ~1gb working memory instead of the ~512mb of XP, nothing one should care of on a 4gb+ system. if you wanna use XP64 anyhow, check that drivers for every piece of hardware you are using are avail before buying it... @rock1 said: ...save disk space... who cares? Norbert

@thomthom said: I use Win7 64bit on all my machines at home and at work. No performance issue there. What are the configs of processor and RAM that you're using? [on Windows 7]

I can check the specs tomorrow when I'm back at the office. (just got home.) Was looking at octgacores - or even one decacore I think - but two computers with hexacores gave the most bang for the bucks.

No idea, yahoo is pants stick with gmail I say!