You should try and keep power and signal cables separate although not a must. If you have an UPS and start operation from that the DC to AC converter with its higher EMI maybe a problem but have not found a specific case. TV cables are double shielded and unlike MIL spec cables with a shielding effectiveness of 45 db they have 90 db. I think that is the same for some of the PC special hook up cables you pay $$ for. In the EMC world this is called category separation. If you want some boring reading look at MIL STD 461 and 462. I like the small plastic straps with stick on where you can place where you want. For course they do not stay forever

Maybe in this topic: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=281d57a2c178bd72&hl=en or in this forum in general: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/label?lid=0db5c0a33a01bbb3&hl=en

Nice, but where i can see the file size? is there a plug in that can do this?

Duh! Should off course have eliminated new object creations. (They are all too expensive.) Changing it and the numbers are quite different: d=Sketchup.active_model.definitions[0]; inst=d.instances; c=10000000; puts "Counting #{d.count_instances} instances..."; t=Time.now; c.times { d.count_instances }; puts "Count: #{Time.now-t}s"; t=Time.now; c.times { inst.length }; puts "Count: #{Time.now-t}s" Counting 8642 instances... Count: 3.562s Count: 1.795s

@unknownuser said: works ok here (Chrome/OSX). see if the user doesn't have any antivirus that mess things up. or you can use TeamViewer and debug on his machine As it turns out - the user had Norton Antivirus installed. When he disabled that everything worked fine. His browser was Safari - but I'm not sure if that is of any significance. I do say... Norton... blocks secure HTTPS sites... So the issue is now resolved. Thanks guys for checking.

HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp n/SketchUp/Plugins where n is the version number There is a Google folder in my User Library but the only thing in it is information about Picasa

@pilou said: Why i have not more this lovely interface ? [image: file.php?id=125578] I have now only this small one! (4 icons) against 5 & PopUp...It's yet fabulous! [image: Add-Quad-Patch.jpg] I'm getting the same but then again it's a 14 year old plugin. Works nice.

I talked about this in another toolbar topic. I wonder if it would help if the 0.1 sec delay was just "cooked into" the restore() method itself ?? Then you would not need to modify a bunch of plugins and re-release them. <span class="syntaxdefault"><br />class UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Toolbar<br />  alias_method</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">orig_restore</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">restore </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  def restore</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">()<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">    UI</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">start_timer</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">0.1</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> false</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">      orig_restore<br />    </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">}<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">  end </span><span class="syntaxcomment">#def<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">end </span><span class="syntaxcomment">#class<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span>

Nice find, I am taking December off, so guess what I'll be doing? Brushing up my Max organic modeling skills.

That is because fun is in funeral. An odd way of revealing a search indeed.

Hi Thomas, One solution I used to make a material map (same issue - I needed to cover a wall with ivy but didn't want all the additional polys for vray.) First, I took a leaf component from an ivy model I had (17,000 faces with just one component!) - then used component spray on a rectangle in an empty model. I added and deleted leaves until it looked how I wanted to to look in my full model. I set up a view straight on, and with the right sun angle, did a vray render. As a result, I have a png (with transparency) that I can use as a material map in vray (I also made a bumpmap layer with a b/w version of the image.) Like Csaba suggests, I place it at a distance from the backdrop so it casts shadows. Here is an example in a rendering. [image: penthouse_img31crop.jpg] -Andy

Very interesting. Awaiting your TT_toolbarTool...

Thomthom, I think this is very photo-realistic renderings and I like it. I dont mind the flooring material, I just think it would help if there were less of it in the foreground...cropping the image a bit more may help, because theres just too much of it and it takes away from all the detailed areas.

after fresh fall of snow, yes.

@magpie said: Any tips on setting up your improv. render farm? is it easy? I just grabbed all the old computers the office discarded when they upgrade the workstations. I currently have 11 old P4 computers. Not very efficient in terms of CPU power and power consumption compared to modern computers... @magpie said: sorry... reviewing your images and yes they Do have a bit of shadow I've flooded the interior with lights so there is no strong shadows. I guess it's been in fear to too dark areas, but I suppose that the renders would have benefited from some lighter and darker areas in order to provide better contrast and dynamic in the images. As well as more details to indicate that people actually used the place.

Never - my brain was being silly.

or start with this address: http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?board=15.0 goodluck,

not really... the context menu is "built on the fly"... The menu needs to know what items and submenus it will need to display. It cannot know what they will be until Sketchup processes all the context_menu_handlers.