@jql said: Saurus I've tried NanoCad (for the simple stuff i described) and it seems good. However there isn't and offset through point or is there? Best regards, JQL I'm no expert in NanoCad. I personally use AutocadLT. It doesn't have offset trough point. I simply do offset by picking distance from point to line. NanoCad is our secondary choice, on other comp., just not to buy another license. If I knew about it earlier I wouldn't buy AutoCad in the first place.

Exporting sketchup to the dwg format and bringing into autocadws seems to be the only way (I've found) of viewing our models on an android tablet/mobile at the moment. (Not into ipad thing) It works reasonably well but is reliant on your model being up on autodesks server. Is google going to produce a viewer or have they lost interest and left this for Trimble to pick up?

Thanks Tig and Fiona, As I suspected the free stuff is pretty scratchy, if it works at all... but I did find Able2Extract http://www.investintech.com/downloads.htm Does a good job, converts to DWG as well as DXF, and its possible to set units, line width and scale. For a $100 it seems reasonable value Edit:....And thanks Rich and All for the links below

Thanks Tig, Partial selecting would certainly help...but it does seem like a recent problem....Ive been using this function constantly since it was first introduced way back in version? without much trouble.

@jsteacy said: Very convincing pebbles, I assume you modeled a few then used the fur plugin to distribute them. what we're the settings you used on the fur plugin? Also it looks like (but hard to tell) you used a pebble texture underneath the modeled ones to cut down on the amount of modeled pebbles, smart, I'm curious what this would look like farther away as part of a whole house shot to see if it's still as convincing (plus I don't think many renders would be so close to the pebbles). Thanks, yes, I used three modeled pebbbles [with a slight sheen in Twilight] as the base component. There is a pebble texture underneath, as insurance, but I can barely see it. This image is about a 50% crop of the original, so the area covered wasnt extensive. Even though I only used 100 instances to a square metre the rendering time ramps up considerably as each individual pebble has to be rendered. So, generally, something like this is useful for close up shots...or maybe larger areas if you have plenty of time and a really fast computer.

Tig, and Jim, Thanks for the tips, good to know. Funny thing with one of my menus, because one selection is a little bigger then the rest, I am able to get 2 1/2 columns too:-)

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Yeah, the help is replaced with the helpcenter. Which is a way of taking all the help offered and turn it into an amazing labrynth of articles that dont relate well to eachother...... Chris I'd like a great big PDF with all that info.

fantastic results, Stu.

Awesome Stu. Looks like a photo to me! The new Podium is amazingly fast!

@solo said: .. using this technology to create a virual portfolio "virual"? Is thats a virtual viral portfolio or viral virtual portfolio?

thanks, Stu

As funny as this is I think the artist is making an important and chilling statement. Dolly the sheep meets the Matrix is pretty much with us now. Who would like to bet that the big toy companies [not to mention the military] are not looking seriously into this now?

Hey, Stu, you weren't one of those singers by any chance?

Anssi, Thanks Mate, but I think Iv'e found the problem. I hooked up an oldish LCD monitor and SU seems to be running sweetly even with large files. So it would seem that my ancient CRT monitor wasn't able to handle SU with a current well speced video card. [ed. actually it couldnt cope with an older card either.....I think it just ran ot of steam ] So it looks like I will indeed have to replace it with that Samsung 245T.......... If anybody is interested.......http://www.trustedreviews.com/displays/review/2007/11/09/Samsung-SyncMaster-245T/p1 Stu

Perosnally i dont think there is any such barrage. I count 5 such threads on the first page of the corner bar out of a total 25 threads. The numbers decline sharply after that, with only 2 more such threads in the next 4 pages. Id interesting threads outnumber the 'whats...' thread by a lot, although obviously this is very subjective.

Yes, the problem is that you would use it with your left hand, with the mouse still being used in the right (or vice versa). The problem for most of us is that our left hand is already permanently parked over the Shift/Ctrl keys, so it just tends to get in the way. Some people have reported that they prefer it...or at least its big brother which actually has keys built-in...but I've just found it less intuitive. It works a charm in other stuff like Google Earth or even navigating large images.

That's funny...might be alcohol related, huh?