@mike lucey said:

Would it not make sense for Google SketchUp to employ / sub-contract some of the passionate bright lights in the SketchUp Community to get SketchUp development back on track and possibly change the slogan, '3D for Everyone' to '3D as it should be'.

Or, that they concentrated on the core, getting it up to date, and opened SU up even further so the community could develop all these features that we want but cannot do currently. Like better UV tools, animation enhancements, and dare I say, fixing the shadow bug. (Yes, I know its a legal matter but I've never seen any other Open GL application with this bug so there must be ways of getting around this?) 🤓

@unknownuser said:

This exist for more 2 years 💚

You sure know how to hurt a guy!

@tomot said:

Missing on mine aswell,

All previous versions of VfSU had Low Priority.

Sorry, the above picture, with its blowout lighting, was rendered with version v1.48.66.

I have now installed v1.48.67, and giving it a try.

I tried to render the same Scene, however after 50 minutes the, Building Photon Map process was only 70% done, hence I abandoned, the Rendering process. Something is clearly wrong!

thomthom, you still have my file and png's of my settings. Perhaps if you have time, you might give it a try.

In fairness to Google SketchUp staff. I have to report that Vray v1.5.05.30 was the culprit. After I uninstalled it. I have had no more problems, with error messages, when SketchUp is closing.

Well ones things for sure, will create a whole bunch of jobs - great for the economy. Mind you, that will be govt jobs - not so good.

@ecuadorian said:

Well, updates have been generally smooth, but when I tried to install the buggy video card drivers from nvidia it did hang. Just out of curiosity, what antivirus do you have in Windows 7?

I have not had any problems with my NVIDIA geforce 8800GT, and I have not installed any antivirus software yet, I was going to do that task last. However I'm a bit reluctant to continue at this stage, due to the current problems. I have noticed that there are numerous updates to Windows 7. However I have not kept track of which update the OS was at when this problem occurred.

@anssi said:

I have to disagree on this

Great looks like we both go back, many years. (how time flies) I used to create my own menu system so I could actually use the program. I recall v2.5 came on 6 floppies. I finally quit using it around release 14. I always thought the AutoCad Users Group was there really only for Autodesk to test their buggy releases, while at the same time charging its customers for that privilege.

But the more important question is why are we still producing 2D drawings for construction in the 21st century? Some of my students ask me that question. My response is, because that's the way its always been done. Hopefully some day in their lifetime some CHANGE will occur.

Problem is that the internal "square faces" are not coplanar! 😮
So ruby "remove inner face" cant work 😒
So you must ask a request in the Ruby section
with a title like [REQ]Select internal lines
don't believe that plug yet exist 😄

After the last elections where the vote was clearly stolen by means of corruption, cheating and widespread intimidation I guess most compassionate people world wide would really like to see something happen, however sanctions will only hurt the innocent folks who are trapped in this predicament. I know a little about sanctions as growing up in South Africa I lived through many years of it, the fat cats were not affected, small business and consumers were.

As far as Israel goes, I must admit that I'm very surprised at the US media for not exposing the 455 new Jewish settlements that has been authorised in the beginning of the month which clearly goes against a UN resolution to halt new settlements on disputed and Palestinian lands. I know it's all politics and such a story will always be hushed here in the states as big business and media have agendas unknown to myself.

I am not taking sides in this dispute as I have many great Iranian and Jewish friends that have expressed the real day to day face of this struggle, be it land and security in Israel or be it control, corruption and isolationism in Iran, I would just like to see the facts and the truths be broadcast evenly and without bias, and not opinion.
Too bad Michael Jackson crap inspires the US markets more than real world affairs.

Thanks for shining a light on this for me Chris, I need to get new batteries 😄

Question:
"Who's voting for all these new regulations?"

Answer:
The millions who voted Labour in the last general election.
It was in their manifesto.

The millions who voted Conservative in the last general election.
It was in their manifesto.
(A weaker, but similar version, promised by them.)

Moral:
You get what you vote for.

try this 😄 http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=6029&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=sketchyffd

Thanks everyone! Cleanup_model.rb did the trick!
with thanks to John H. Aughey for the script.

Ross that is a very topical issue; there is no clear distinction between a freedom fighter and a terrorist. There is a very good documentary series currently showing on Al jazeera that questions what the difference is. By todays standards, the allied partisan resistance fighters in WW2 would have been classed as terrorists. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2009/02/20092565012929122.html

There is no internationally agreed definition.
@unknownuser said:

Terrorism expert Walter Laqueur has counted over 100 definitions and concludes that the 'only general characteristic generally agreed upon is that terrorism involves violence and the threat of violence.' Yet terrorism is hardly the only enterprise involving violence and the threat of violence. So does war, coercive diplomacy, and barroom brawls."

@unknownuser said:

The Patriot Act defined “terrorist activity” so broadly that it encompasses virtually any deed, even if carried out under threat of death or against a brutal regime. The Patriot Act also liberalized the definition of “terrorist organizations”: In addition to the Tier I and Tier II lists of known and actual terrorist groups, a terrorist organization could now be any “group of two or more individuals, whether organized or not,” which engages in any form of “terrorist activity” thusly defined.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism

Thats quality, gonna be hearing that squeak for weeks.

@unknownuser said:

On Wednesday, President Obama announced limits on executive pay at $500,000 at companies who receive bailout funds.

"In order to restore our financial system, we’ve got to restore trust,” the president said. “And in order to restore trust, we’ve got to make certain that taxpayer funds are not subsidizing excessive compensation packages on Wall Street."

Maybe he's listening?

Hi,
I have installed New version Sketchup 2014 but your wiindow tools are not working!
Please let me know how to fix?
Thanks

@tomot said:

@edson said:

tom,
I found out what appears to be an odd behavior in your plugin: the louver tool and the mullion tool generate doors without frames! is that on purpose or my copy is not working properly? I am on mac.

I find it very strange in comparison with your own Bifold Tools which generates complete doors with frames.

Sorry for the very late reply,...its by design, for example if you don't like the bifold door panels you can delete them and replace them with actual louvers, from window tools, or use a pic that represents louvers. the same is true with my cabinet tool, if you don't like the panel effect you can replace the panels with louvers from window tools, as illustrated in the attached pic.

thanks for the explanation.