Hi Jim78b.
I think TIG has done a plugin that does exactly that? i.e. Make a model, then the plugin gives you 4 orthographic projections where you can add dimensions.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=35096
There's also another great plugin that allows parametric dimensioning, by a Russian company- a company who's name currently escapes me too 
It's too early and I have a headache! Sorry.
But there is hope out there! 
Tom
@solo said:
Just out of curiosity, do you believe in global climate change?
Of course (I believe in global warming). But I also believe that we still don't quite understand what causes it.
But more to the point is what I worry about a growing number of (mainly young) people who have a very low opinion about humanity on the whole. I am also concerned about ways the so called self or government appointed "experts" tell us we are all heading to catastrophe and so dictate to us how we should live. I feel we are fast tracking ourselves on a steady path of regression, (by playing on people's fears about things like runaway population as well as climate change) and I believe this will eventually lead back to a much harder way of life we left in the past, a long time ago. I think many people have forgotten just how hard it used to be, and how hard it used to be without simple things such as pain killers and cures for many illnesses. I should point out that the government love this regressive trend because it means they don't have to invest in new technologies and industry any longer (hence the term "lazy capitalism"). No investment means far fewer jobs.
I have a progressive nature. I'm 100% for the human race as well as our future. I want to help teach my children to design, build a space-age future complete with cars that use highly efficient alternatives to fossil fuels etc. But I also believe that we still need to burn coal as well as oil in order to get there (if you see what I mean?)
Hi Chedda.
Any Mac Mini with an Intel will be an improvement over the G5.
I also have a Mac Mini (they are just sooo cute!!). This one is an early 2010 one (I think?). It's excellent, but I get the best one you can afford. The graphic card on this is a 256mb job- which is fine for most applications, although obviously a dedicated one that doesn't share the main memory will be far better.
Just go for it. And if possible, get it via a friend at university or college, because that'll save you a few bob.
And also hop over to Crucial and get 8 gigs of ram for 50 notes too!
Have fun.
@unknownuser said:
- My personal preference is to avoid over clocking if possible. One of the main contributors to electronics reliability is emitter base junction temps and that just drives the temps up. Usually we like to keep them down to 125 C or less. I think the upper limit on a single core is about 3.5 GHz and SU does not use dual cores yet. If you have the foot print and connection for more case fan that could be a good move. I have two and still runs warmer that I like;
I agree.
Heat is one of the biggest killers of electronic circuitry. If you turn it on then off this is really not good for circuits. Making something hotter increases the temperature ratio that the hardware is designed to cope with, reducing the reliability of your hardware. It's actually best to keep computers running all the time, to keep their temperature constant, but we all know that just isn't always possible.
Tom (City & Guilds in Electronic Servicing Levels 2 & 3)
I know what you meant.
On a lighter, more creamy note...
Ben & Jerry's have now got in on the act! Just how cynical is this? 
"Suck up your favourite ('organic'?) ice cream with a clear conscience!" 
Rock on bez & jez 
They play the environmental card- obviously good PR on their behalf, but one of the main reasons we are paying crazy taxes as well as increased fuel bills is because environmentalists have chosen to play on peoples fear about climate change. So we are now heading for targets we can't achieve, and as a result we must pay more taxes! Consumables cost money. They need massive investment, because energy companies need to pay their shareholders. The profits they make are astronomical. And another big freeze is forecasted in Europe again this year.
This is part of the reason I played the Greenpeace and WWF card before. They're all part of the 'greater picture'! 
It is highly likely that this will evoke emotions- but emotions are the reason these games that are played by governments and aforementioned organisations become so personal to the general public- especially the middle classes.
Under the circumstances what could the police do? I think they behaved very amicably this time considering the circumstances. The police otoh were wrong to arrest all those on the bridge the other day. If they'd arrested this guy, it would have probably sparked a riot! Personally I thought he should have saved his anger and become the next Malcolm X!
America needs new leaders! This guy's got more passion than Obama! That can only be a good thing!
@unknownuser said:
If it were up to me, Cheney would rot in jail.
Why bother? What would it achieve? He'd only be replaced by another twit.
@unknownuser said:
Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.
Immanuel Kant; An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? 1784 (Excerpt)
I don't know. I don't think "greedy" is the right word. More like 'ignorant' perhaps?
In Britain the south has become so affluent, that most people living down there seem to have lost control of their senses. It seems people forget once they become comfortable.
Both our current leaders (hung parliament, because so few came out to vote), are both ex-Etonians. They have practically no grasp on reality at all. You're more likely to get into one of the top 5 universities (Oxbridge etc) if you went to public school (Eton is a well known British public school that only sons of bankers are most likely to afford) and paid the £5000 per term entry fees, rather than going to a state comprehensive government funded school school.
Did you also know the majority of 11 year olds who went to state schools over the last 20 years don't even know what an architect does, whereas ask someone from a public school, and you will get a different answer? As a matter of fact, if you are a well known RIBA architect, it's more than likely that your children will also go to public school.
Same probably goes for the monetary system, as we no longer live in a meritocracy. But when our leaders are also both ex-public school, this is hardly surprising. 
CPU and graphic board looks good. Although 5 years is getting on a bit
I'd upgrade to Windows 7 (asap) and get as much RAM in there as you can afford!
SketchUp is only 32 bit, and you won't notice any speed change even if it was 64 bit.
I've got 8gigs of RAM running on this 2 year old Mac Mini, and it flies!!
@mike lucey said:
A byegone parasite IMO, Mayer Amschel Rothschild quote states, Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws. We still have these parasites in our midst!
Mike, I know it wasn't your intention, but I'd be really careful how you use the word "parasite"!
@idahoj said:
From my readings, it appears the OWS protests are pretty much focused on companies within sovereign borders.
Further proof that no one really knows what they are marching for!
On the radio this morning the 5 major energy companies in Great Britain announced even more price rises. Some bills have increased over 100%!!! Yet the government are doing bugger all (why am I not surprised?). Labour interjected, with the same old "we would have done that" when everyone knows quite well, that in power, they wouldn't.
With energy, it's down to investment, and it's something we won't see with "renewables"- well we will, in the way of wind turbines, because they cost millions to put up and service. But that all comes out of our pockets as energy corporations don't want to invest- and with a population frightened off by a nuclear only future, is that hardly surprising?
....and this is why I raised the point about Greenpeace and the WWF. Yes it probably will "spark more visceral responses", but they, and privatisation (as well as public share holders) are very much part of 'the problem' too.
It would be interesting to see what people here think of international corporations such as Greenpeace and the WWF?
Why prosecute bankers? Prosecute the real culprits, Governments!!
In fact forget prosecutions- far too expensive! Form new parties with new, progressive politics and throw these dinosaurs out!
See my other post here;
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=40678
(so I don't double post, and break forum rules )
When are we ever going to learn? 
Don't blame bankers...
It's far too convenient and more importantly, conspiratorial, to blame bankers and big corporations for mess. All this does is to 'allow' already lazy politicians to wriggle out and away from their responsibilities.
Blame governments!! They are the real culprits! It's governments who make the rules, the big decisions on how your money is spent. Not individual corporations or bankers!
@jgb said:
And corroding aluminum with cola is not a party trick. Unless the party goes on a few days, and you get a source of uncoated aluminum. Foil won't do. It's not a myth, I HAVE seen it myself.
But equally you could argue the same about vinegar and lemon juice! And what about all those who chew lime (the alkaline version), areca nut and betel in countries like India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka?
Can you imagine salad without vinegar, or hummus without lemon? Heavens forbid!
As for caffeine, tea and coffee have copious amounts of that. Life without coffee??? Arghhhhh let me out of here!!!! 
......the thread?.......what thread......?
It's a great party trick Joel, but considering that the body contains a far more dangerous acid- hydrochloric acid, and that does a very good job of not rotting the stomach...... this urban myth scare story is nothing but.... a scare story! 
I've heard this story so many times from so many sources in so many guises. I actually think it's more a case of mass hysteria in support of the hatred of anything non-natural (whatever 'natural' is supposed to mean?- It's like that much over abused word "organic").
One of the arguments is "coco-cola rots your teeth. Here's an example... soak a tooth for 3 days" blah blah blah.....
The only really frightening thing about coke (or any cheap foodstuff) is the amount of sugar (or worse, fructose (http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/fructosedangers.htm) it contains.
How many people can you name who have died from a direct poisoning from drinking cola?
@jgb said:
The tea & soya milk equate to the Diet Coke
This is very true....
But I prefer diet Pepsi!
It's a Coke vs Pepsi debate again!
@unknownuser said:
For the people, by the people.
Not: for our greedy pockets at the expense of the people.
But how do you intend to rally 'the people' when all 'the message' does is alienate 'the people' by claiming that they are brainwashed or stupid?
You could also start by setting fire to your Mac? Apple are a global corporation and their products are manufactured in China.
