DUDE! This is phenomenal stuff. That purse with the bows on it especially blows me away.

I'm definitely not good by that benchmark either, but I don't have much interest in modeling people or other organic forms. I imagine you could do it in SketchUp, but paper and charcoal are a better medium.

I think I'm pretty good at making small models generally related to woodworking, but I'm not very fast and I can think of a thousand ways I could be better.

What can I say but "Welcome In corrigible".

Sorry, but when handed a straight line I can't help myself.

Welcome,

SketchUp is oriented toward and marketed toward architecture, but it's great! for woodworking and other stuff too. If you go to the 3D warehouse and search for wood working you will get a lot of useful stuff.

Sort of related. I dropped this "gadget" into my iGoogle page.

Google

Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.

(www.google.com)

It saves about half a step.

I know more about SketchUp than I do about framing a closet, but here's what I've come up with for a closet I hope to put in the corner of my garage. (I don't like the way the doors look, and if they are not stiff enough, I plan to add battens to the back of them, but the design should be easy to build and should keep the dust out.)

After opening it, go to Windows/Outliner. Then you can see the different components in an outline structure. Any part of the outline can be hidden or unhidden. I seldom use layers in SU, but components are very powerful.

Storage Closet.skp

Any resolution on this? I was having the same trouble over the weekend.

2.008 made it here a little while ago. Kissed my love and she went to bed. Now I'm just waiting for my older daughter to come home before I go to bed.

Thanks to everyone to the east of me for breaking the year in before it got here.

Thank you Jean. As usual, once you explain it it's obvious. Before that it was impossible.

Bummer. That explains why each time I access the 3D warehouse through SU, Explorer picks up my cookie.

At home, I use FF and my wife uses Explorer. If I don't remember to fix it, this confuses her.

It would be great if their were another approach.

Totally cool. Especially impressed with the undercarriage details.

Do these things really exist for mining or something or is this a science fiction device?

Is it possible to make a section plane smaller so that it only covers part of a model. For instance, I am doing a parallel 3-view of an object and I want to show the internals of the front view. It seems I can't get scenes to remember to use x-ray view, so I thought I'd try a section. It cut through the other views too.

I worked around it by lowering the other views beneath the section plane, but making the section plane smaller would be better.

Simply elegant.

I also imagine that if the car is on a tray of some sort rather than driven on and off the elevator under its own power, that you could drive onto the tray and the computer would deliver the car to your apartment on its own. The same way, you could order the computer to deliver your car at street level when you plan to leave in the morning.

But . . . probably some of the desire to do this would be for people to be able to step from their apartment door into their car without having contact with the rest of the world, so that votes against an automated system which would pre-position the car.

The first idea does have some potential for highly dense parking structures though. Could be operated by cell-phone.

The only advantage I see over a motorcycle is that you don't have to put your feet down when you stop. And it looks real cool?

That looks a lot like my first computer. An Osborn 1

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It was described as "transportable." And you had to love that 3.5" screen.

@anssi said:

. . . This is a feature of SU. . .

Feature = problem we can't fix so we'll call it a feature? Or is there really an advantage I don't see?

I'd love to be able to put in a window which cuts a hole in both the inside and the outside surfaces of a wall.

Let us know, or if anyone else is using it, tell us about it. It looks good, but like mouse traps, many ideas look good. We keep going back to the same old thing.

Personally, I think the compound curves of a woman are the perfect form, but I can understand that others may want something different.

Here's to hoping that the next version of SketchUp has some improvements in modeling "organic" forms. Speaking of favorite things.