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When I edit one cabinet in my kitchen layout the texture/images from other components stay visible. Really not what one wants.
SU 8.0.3161 on OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)

@solo said:

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

Go to netflix and locate 'Coupling'. Find the episode entitled "the cupboard of patrick's love". Learn about the importance of your 'porn buddy'.

And really - MS & Apple - get your act together. Browser history and email address lists and other nominated folders should be auto-deleted by the system if the correct user does not enter a password on a regular basis.

@unknownuser said:

Thankfully you didn't google 'google'. That would break the web

Just imagine if you googled for the people googling google gogglers. I think you might cause a garbage collection rooted at Higgs.

Ah, Susan, that would be Vancouver Island. Which is, what, 70 miles off Vancouver? Thanks for the offer, much appreciated but sadly not one I can take you up on. Apart from anything else I'm seriously busy actually building the house! See http://www.rowledge.org/tim/building/building/blog.html for latest status.

You're welcome to use my house design. Slightly out of date file but all there; as displayed by @Last at the AIA show etc.

http://rowledge.org//tim/building/AshlingRdLayoutForGoogle.zip

Beware - it's a scary thing to work out!

I recently discovered that (according to one or other of the various calculators) inflation from the time of my birth to now was about x17. That's bad enough but housing inflation (in UK) appears to be about 10x that - or x170 !!

Surely the real issue is that we shouldn't be even be thinking of producing printed material?

Everyone ought to be able to use a system like SU to examine a good, detailed, model of the project and work from that. With devices like iPad etc it should be the standard to have them at the site and to work from up to date soft design models. Your foundation corners and datum points ought to be drawn on the ground by laser from a fly-over of a Predator drone

If one does really need to fall back on dried slivers of dead tree then surely SU/LO can do an adequate job of keeping the various views up to date? I haven't had any issues in my project with that. Yes, there is a problem if design changes require big changes in notes attached to a view. What would be wanted to automatically handle that (aside from a real, practical, helpful AI) ? You might be able to implement a way to attach notes to the parts within SU and 'pull them out' in LO. Then a deleted part would automatically remove the unwanted note, for example.

Those of you advocating reductions in retirement benefits might want to think carefully; you're likely to be getting there in the not too distant future…

What on earth do you expect old people to do if there is no plausible pension? Live on the streets? Take up drug dealing? Mugging? Prostitution?

I think I've built pretty much everything I've designed in SU. From the little bits of model airplane landing gear through office furniture http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=1259776282395917285925759&scoring=m all the way up to my new house http://www.rowledge.org/tim/building/index.html

She was only the conductor's daughter, but she knew Sir Henry Wood.

Atheism: not so much a religion, more a personal relationship with reality.

Document my code? Why do you think it is called 'code'?

What is the difference between a Duck? One of its legs is both the same… (I don't get it either but I still think it's the funniest gag ever)

@mike lucey said:

I thought the Variér Furniture collection might be worth mentioning here, should look very well in renders!

I've been sitting - well, kneeling, on one of the slightly less expensive versions of that for about 25 years now. I always wanted the one with a back that you could sort of rock back in and use as an armchair as well as a desk chair. Never did get round to it but the plain kneeler has served me well and saved my back for half my life.

@xrok1 said:

we live in a closed ecosystem, the amount of water on the earth is the amount of water, you can't get rid of it unless you blast it into space. you can only change its form, BUT, since we can do this at will; whats the problem?

Simply not the case, I'm afraid. Water can be destroyed very easily. Just run it through a chemical reaction that results in no water on the output side.
Sure, lots of those reactions are part of living things and tend to (eventually) release roughly the same amount. Not all though. Water gets bound into concrete for the fairly long term, for example. It gets pulled into subduction zones and held in some form within the lithosphere for potentially billions of years. It can be split by ultra-violet and the oxygen and hydrogen go their separate ways, with the hydrogen possibly departing the Earths regions since it is so light. Water simply isn't immutable; we gain some from space occasionally or from chemical reactions and we lose some.

The key problem isn't the total amount, anyway. It's the amount available in a practical sense that matters. Much of human civilisation takes their water from large aquifers of glacial melt. Draw down the aquifer faster than it fills, or melt your glacier, and pretty soon your city will die. I'm told Adelaide may be the first city in recent history to suffer this fate.

@khai said:

that and I have about 1.5tb online with the machines here on our house network. my monthly bandwidth from my ISP is 125gb. then it's a dollar a gig over that to a max of $50.

online just ain't practical. (we push the 125gb limit each month anyway)

But how much changes each month - that's the amount you would have to transfer during backups. Assuming of course that your backup system is moderately smart.

Time Machine. Archive to external discs every now and then.

Plenty of online backup services if you have the upload/download speed and allowance - depends on your ISP.

But do it.

@tridem said:

:roflmao: the only lack in the rock I believe is the screen's refresh time...

Hardly:-
Weight.
Responsiveness even worse than Windows on an underpowered netbook.
Totally useless for content creation purposes after just a few characters worth of input.
Only plays Hard Rock mp3s.
Breaks floor when dropped.

@thomthom said:

But I'm curious if SketchUp can be made LargeAddressAware, which would mean under 64bit OS it could address 4GB ram instead of 2.

What? Windows only allows you access to 2Gb? Insane. Immediately stop using such a lame OS.

I suspect many people are mis-using the whole '64 bit' thing.

Changing a program to use 64 bit sized pointers may well slow it down since you now have to move around twice as much data for every operation. Whether that is a noticeable effect depends a great deal on the exact operations involved and the precise details of the machine you are using. And what other programs are running and how much real memory they are holding on to and how much vmem thrashing that causes.

Changing a program to use the 64 bit instruction set available in the recent intel cpus is a different thing. Hidden under the ugly lump of crapulence that pretends to be a Pentium 17 or whatever it would be by now is a reasonably well thought out RISC machine with a lot of capabilities, many more registers than the stupid x86 instruction set and potentially better performance.

It's like the whole 'why isnt SU multicore' outcry. Not every algorithm is sensibly parallelisable, nor easily. A pity, since massive parallelism is the only way we are likely to be able to take advantage of future benefits of Moore's Law. It may even be that in order to use hundreds of cores we have to change to much less 'efficient' algorithms from the perspective of a single cpu.

The Google video demonstrating changes to Layout? First example file is my house

A performance reduction? There shouldn't be, unless the virtual system is poorly implemented. The cpu architecture is the same so there is no instruction emulation to be done. There will of course be an apparent performance hit because you will have to keep remembering the UI and functional differences as you swap between systems. You should even be able to minimise that problem if you understand enough of the virtual system's configuration since both Parallels and Fusion etc seem to have modes where the Windows windows appear within the Mac desktop instead of within a distinct workspace.

If you have two monitors you can have all the Windows stuff appear on one of them, or perhaps keep a separate Space for it.

I have one of the early-09 24" iMacs with the Radeon 4850 graphics and there haven't been any problems at all that I have noticed. SU runs very nicely indeed.