We have just made Thea Studio 1.2 and Thea for SketchUp publicly available as a demo version. All of you have now a chance to try the new Field Mapping engine and also Presto GPU running on Nvidia cards.

@unknownuser said: These animations are real time ? Those are rendered in Thea Studio's darkroom.

I wonder how the costs of deconstruction compare to the construction costs. There's maybe one advantage: it's easier to reuse or recycle materials than when turning it into a pile of debris. Like with nuclear powerplants, proper deconstruction often hasn't been considered in the planning and the costs (and time) for nuclear powerplants easily exceed those of construction.

Keep in mind that read_default passes the attribute text through eval() before it is returned, apparently with a rescue nil clause (or modifier.) This is why we cannot have any un-escaped embedded double-quote characters in the attribute.

@notareal said: @atlastudio said: Would like to know how to reduce noise if there's any experts reading! Not sure how materials and scene is set, but I do get a impression that most light comes from the Sun trough a glossy based glass (a real glass that creates caustics) curtain wall. Some "tricks": Thin Film based glass (architectural glass) will speed up convergence a lot. TR2 will render most challenging light paths and materials (naturally with cost of render time) Super-Sapling set to "High" with TR1/TR2 helps to reduce noise Use some fill light (a emitter that is not visible to the camera) to boost convergence, if most of the light comes trough glossy based glass. Note: light components and mesh emitters intersecting nearby mesh may cause noise as well as emitters that has really dense polygon mesh. Make sure that pure white and black are not used, keep diffuse colors in 6-96% range. Thanks for the tips, have just coughed up and bought it today so looking forward to seeing what i can achieve.

Alas very dangerous and some polluting!

Have you been in egypt during the summer? Bigger stones there. What about the great ancient theater. Tragedies-dramas performed during the day from dawn till afternoon. Trilogies. Under the sun. The night isn't the appropriate hour for such meanings. Wearing their huts (chinese like) and eating onions and garlics. Indeed, the great dramas of Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides under the smell of ailoli :: [image: ZWoV_220px-Allioli.jpg] And something sad. On a tomb of a dog. "Here the stone says it holds the white dog from Melita, the most faithful guardian of Eumelus; Bull they called him while he was yet alive; but now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of night." [image: T5Sn_breed.jpg]

I could see doing that, so as to work with skp files in a normal Ruby session (outside of embedded SketchUp Ruby.) But D.M. says that his goal is to work inside SketchUp embedded Ruby. What's the point ?? The SDK is a subset of the Sketchup engine. Inside SU it is already loaded into memory, so you do not need reader and writer DLLs at all. Just use IT. There IS an example in the SDK that shows how to.. and the first step is to always get a handle on the Sketchup application.

@sepo said: wow....this looks so promising. Could someone elaborate if the trees are going to fee pay for or part of library for existing users? They will be available for all licensed users.

@cotty said: Ah, the tank Doing lawnmower duties

I guess it must interact well with water. We have plenty of water in our bodies. Here you can learn more on the regenerative medicine. 60 Minutes-Regenerative Medicine.wmv - YouTube [flash=480,385:bn1xfmja]http://www.youtube.com/v/oQQRUSR36jo[/flash:bn1xfmja] They talk about ECM starting from 4m 14s.

Not bad although that's too apparently a make-up. So is this IMO: [flash=600,400:khxujtim]http://www.youtube.com/v/O57wkDBUyZo[/flash:khxujtim]

@unknownuser said: Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for! It is really weird. I have checked all observers, but didn't remember this method hidden in SketchUp::Pages! Yup.. it is overlooked because is does not have a protoclass defined, nor it's own page in the API reference.

there is also http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ - liked the filtering capabilities [image: download_screenshot.jpg]

Ah, very interesting. Sort of like an inertia reel block safety device.

Here's a way that doesn't iterate every windows there is. It enumerates the windows of the calling thread. Cuts down the searching and ensure that you don't get the wrong window. win32_sketchup_window.rb

Whole experiment is interesting. I do like the Locking. It is amazing how precisely the disks locks in its position! p.s. I am sorry for the doubled post. Haven't noticed former. Mods please merge both.

Thanks Tomaz for the headsup. I was not aware of this problem (Smart meters) and it could be a problem for people living nearby those smart meters, particularly whoever is sleeping in the bedroom above that bank of smart meters. I think I will do some more reading up on this subject. Mike

@dan rathbun said: Components can contain nested Groups and other Components. The Components could be normal or dynamic. If nested, you'll need to do a recursive search (make a search method that calls itself.) Dan, I am an author of two exporters , I have learned it few years ago. SU2Thea exports whole SU model hierarchy. @adamb said: You would need to follow the hierarchy all the way to the top to determine if any antecedent (parent) was hidden - and thus all subsequent children are hidden - to get the correct answer. Basically it requires you to structure code as a recursive descent.. which runs counter to the definition.instances graph-like structure. I do walk all the hierarchy from the very top till the last visible? entity. It works perfectly on all objects. SU2Thea exports everything fine except this door for example: The door has several layouts of a door leaf defined. They are all being exported, because when I check e.definition.entities all return true although not all are being visible on a screen at the same moment in the same instance. I guess I have to recognize whether I have a DC, then check which option has been chosen for the instance I investigate (probably an attribute) and then discard all faces in a definition that doesn't belong to the 'option' (I guess defined in an attribute of the instance again). I hope that is easy to distinguish parts of DC definition that are optional. If it isn't obvious from attributes that a DC stores then.. it will be hit or miss. @adamb said: EDIT: as I'm writing this..are you saying hidden? and visible? are actually different? I was asking Dan whether there is a difference, but I doubt. API Docs don't mention it. I will dig into the issue. I just thought someone has already been there.