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Dear tak2hata,
veryyy nice upgrade indeed!! 
(model Fancy arched window by loverevolutionary on 3D Warehouse)
Would you please tak2hata not give up in such a good path: It remains a major limitation.
It would be very interesting to drill holes by lot in case of large number of windows for exemple...
A little reminder on how make a Component with a cutting option:
(I have myself to revisit the process each time 
)
Cheers,
simon
Happy birthday Chris !!
my present:
with my friendship:
simon
Hi tak2hata 
This is a very smart tool where Su is lacking. Thanks a lot. 
(not very far from TIG's "Hole Punching Tool" complementary and maybe more easy to use "on the fly".
Do you think It will be possible to overpass some limitations ?
-> use it on a shape which is not necessarily : - a closed shape, - a group or a component.
-> select a bunch of faces to be hole punched rather than to be one by one ?
My respect and my friendship for what you gracefully share into this place,
++simon
Hi TIG
How many smart tools from you I haven't tested? a bunch of them I guess: it's a pity (but they are carefully bookmarked 
).
This one one more time, is full of potential
+++
simon
Hi Roberto,
What an amazing collection of fantastic work
How many hours a day to draw ? I'm already afraid to know
+++simon
@unknownuser said:
By the way I really appreciate all the links you post that take me on interesting paths, and a real vote of thanks to your Great Grandfather
Dear Dale, I'm so pleased you appreciate (and sorry for bumping this way your thread). Searching to find more in order to give some powder to this reply, I have found very interesting things (and especially a book written by my great grandfather which I didn't know). I have found also that the real big men around reinforced concrete at this time were Eugène Freyssinet and Albert Caquot. So would you please let me bump a little more and for the last time your thread with these last links, mostly in french. ( no comment: just in the case people be interested)
PELNARD-CONSIDERE-CAQUOT 1994 035
http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/camt/fr/egf/donnees_efg/1994_035+2007_048/1994_035_INV.pdf
Experimental Researches on Reinforced Concrete (1906) by Armand Considère
http://www.archive.org/details/experimentalres01consgoog
Albert Caquot portrait: [url=http://sabix.org/bulletin/:27vfjpjp]bulletin[/url:27vfjpjp] de l'école polytechnique ([url=http://sabix.org/:27vfjpjp]Sabix[/url:27vfjpjp])
[url:27vfjpjp]http://sabix.org/bulletin/b28/28.html[/url:27vfjpjp]
[url:27vfjpjp]http://sabix.revues.org/370?lang=en[/url:27vfjpjp]
Les chocolats Menier, le pont Hardi et Armand Considère
[url:27vfjpjp]http://pone.lateb.pagesperso-orange.fr/pont hardi.htm[/url:27vfjpjp]
http://pone.lateb.pagesperso-orange.fr/armand%20considere.htm
Cintre du pont la Caille sur le ravin des Usses, en Haute-Savoie (1928).
Le pont de la Caille sur le ravin des Usses (1928), record mondial à l’époque
end of the bump
++simon
Dear Dale and Judy,
Things are really going on!!
Each step is carried out with great attention to detail, in a spirit of perfection. It's so pleasant to watch
I continue to be amazed by all the techniques that you implement..
-I didnd't know we could revive the stones with Muriatic acid (Historically called muriatic acid, and spirits of salt, hydrochloric acid was produced from vitriol (sulfuric acid) and common salt. The earliest suggested discovery of hydrochloric acid is attributed to the alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. 800 AD).
nice.. Oh! and now that's it: The cold is arrived 
Have you win the race, or does some works are lost under snow for this season?
Cheers,
Simon.
Well done dear Numb
Sonny Stitt, New York City, 1953
@unknownuser said:
Born in Allentown, PA in 1923, Herman chose to attend Ohio University in Athens, the only university at the time to offer a degree in Photography. Herman's jazz photographs, now collector's items, are a unique record of the jazz scene of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Leonard’s work is held in The Smithsonian’s collection, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NY, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LA, and the George Eastman House, NY, as well as the private collections of Sir Elton John, Bruce Bernard and His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
simon
[flash=640,100:oou4apyh]http://www.youtube.com/v/0c0O9rwQ9po[/flash:oou4apyh]
[flash=640,100:oou4apyh]http://www.youtube.com/v/J2W5F_071Ig[/flash:oou4apyh]
[flash=640,100:oou4apyh]http://www.youtube.com/v/CsZJGZVRT28[/flash:oou4apyh]
[flash=640,100:oou4apyh]http://www.youtube.com/v/TVUl1Z2IRdo[/flash:oou4apyh]
very nice drawing and render dear Dale, thank you (Pictures downloaded )
The atmosphere for "Jazz". At night when everything is low: the light , the city , home,, and there a voice, a saxo, a piano....
It seems to me that I recognize Aretha (or Nina?) at the piano, Billie in the close up, I don't know who is at the saxo.
Cheers,
simon
Dear Dale,
So nice to meet you again
Thank you for your precise explanations. They help to participate to your project (you are a bit too far to lend you my arms )
The reasons you had made the upper floors in wood are very instructive ++ Can we say that the concept of passive house(Passivhaus in German) is maintained by this way?
This is something I like deeply in my inside to understand and ear explanations about architectural (and mechanical) choices. May be in another life I would had been an architect!! This probably come from my family consisting of a line of building engineers.
The most famous of them was my great-grandfather from my father side, Armand Considère which was one of the inventors and great promoter of reinforced concrete construction...
here are some links dedicated to him:
Armand Considère
http://en.structurae.de/photos/index.cfm?JD=62
http://www.planete-tp.com/article.php3?id_article=1282
[url]http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Considère[/url]
And here is a beautiful family picture which shows him accompanied with his daughters (one is my grand mother )
[url=http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/generalPicts/MretMellesConsidere_enbateau.jpg:19p3sf3o]
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@unknownuser said:
PS Simon... Been to any good concerts lately?
Here is my last one, dedicated to you
[url=http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/generalPicts/2011-11-21_201358.jpg:19p3sf3o]
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[url:19p3sf3o]http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=21899&p=367194#p367194[/url:19p3sf3o]
++ simon
A long time since I have reported my work 
This one is dedicated to Dale Stephens who had been kind enough to ask for my news
This was a precious concert of Nathalie Stutzmann (singer and director at the same time), playing Vivaldi and Haendel. The concert had been recorded at the "Cité de la Musique" in Paris on 17 of november 2011 , .
Available until 17 march 2012
This is the third time I record this so great artist with her own group based in Metz.
please clic the picture to link
and here is the program:
or in pdf format if you want to Copy/Paste:
NathalieStutzmann_Haendel_Vivaldi.pdf
If you like to listen rare musics, I recommend you the Cité de la Musique site where you are going to find plenty of amazing full concerts.....
with all my best to you dear visitor
simon
Dear Dale,
Excuse me for not coming back earlier to watch the progress of the building.
I just have read all the five pages and 71 posts of this thread!!
It was quite difficult to follow because of the technical language of construction. At the same time it was nicely instructive and exciting as a true story.
It's amazing the work you have done. 
We can easily imagine how you will live in harmony with the house. Making a home is perhaps the oldest thing in the world but that no one does anymore, except you.
I have been surprised all along by the techniques used in the building process and by some design principles that I have never seen applied at home.
As I believe to understand, the key word is this:
"We Can Get down to -40 here"
All these techniques are playing in the fight against the cold!
The Quad-Lock system like Lego to make a perfectly insulated walls:
"Quad-Lock has the highest available insulation" " A Quad-Lock building is Ultra Energy-Efficient because of continuous EPS Insulation"
Everything above the ICF walls: the upper floors are made with wood, also well known as a good insulator. I never see that melting for the walls here. Why walls are not completely done with icf?
"The ground source Geo-exchange system was a big project"
An incredible project I would say! Pipes under the ground:
"We put in 1800 lineal feet (548 m) which required us to dig trenches about 6'(1.8 m) deep x 10'(3 m)",
and how many lineal feet of pipes have you put inside the concrete floors..?
You had to strongly believe in this technique to invest such efforts and money ! May be I have to consider this at home?
The insulated roof covered with galvanized sheet metal rather than tiles, I presume to withstand the snow and allow it to slip.
by the end, the incredible nice construction of the fire place, built almost like a separate building. the chimney built outside the house (I don't know why: don't you lost some warm by this way ?). I only find strange you haven't installed an insert as heat recovery.
About the technique "to acid stain the floors" I've never seen this practiced at home. It sounds quite simple, beautiful and cheap.
What I also find human and beautiful with your story is that everything is underlain by the arrival of winter. It's a race against time.
"Winter strikes hard and fast here, and I am really pushing to not get caught."
Dear Dale and Judy, what you do is great and I wish you all the best in your house and the land surrounding it.
very friendly as you know,
simon simon.
First tests, nice tool
For me, a precise brush is missing, but many wonderful effects are available.
The free service is may be a bit too short
simon
Dear all "Sorry for the OT" bis
thank you for the link dear Numb. The funny thing is that I work for "Le Jour Du Seigneur" prod episodically for many years..
[flash=640,480:2eknh65l]http://www.youtube.com/v/OJ3JlzVbqcE[/flash:2eknh65l]
*simon
Dear John,
Your style is so nice
You have an incredibly huge production 
You must draw at a thunder speed It is even hard to stay updated with your progress 
my best congrats
(ps: architectural links of our so good fellow Numbthumb already bookmarked )
simon
Hi,
I have to test this new Tig's tool which seems perfect for the purpose.
I just wanted to remind and connect readers with the same request I had in times and which can complete the purpose: Can i draw an arc with a specifying circumference value
And especially to focus on a calculator linked by Pilou
(clic the picture)
simon
Dear Remus,Pilou,Gaieus and Jean,
I'm afraid i haven't found into your replies exactly what i'm searching for.
What i need sometimes would be drawing an arc from point A to B and tape the length around the arc in the VCB (in place of the rope), leaving SU decide corresponding radius.
//
I Know A and B so i know length rope (rope)
I know length around the arc (arc
it's the value i want.
I don't know angle (A), neither Radius (R)
//
(mathematic is a strange land to me)
If i want an arc=t , i have to found R and A with rope value.
R= arc/A
and
R= rope/2sin(A/2)
=> arc/rope= A /2sin(A/2) >> for me it's the end of the travel
//
others relations:
A = 2 x arcsin(rope/2R)
and ???§§§!!!=**@@
Sorry for so trouble