Hi everyone, have been a little quiet of late with working remotely. Great to be back here and seeing some longtime members.
I'm about to pull the lever on a new desktop [old one kicked the bucket after nearly 8 years] so I'm a bit rusty on what hardware / combinations SU members are using.

Attached is the specs I've received from my local computer shop. They suggest that AMD have taken a huge leap forward over Intel; I recall the opposite applied when I last built a system.

I woudl love some feedback on what you guys are using or prefer to for your ideal setup.

Have a super day.

Terribly sad situation for this boy and his mates. We had 4 shark attacks in 3 days in Australia recently... never nice to hear but still hard to stay out of the surf.

Hi guys, I got around to making this little project.
Decided to stick with SU and it was easier that I thought.

Modelled and laid it our into a template.

Took a few days in total but has turned out not to bad.... all hand punched / hand stitched with 1.0mm waxed thread. Vegetable tanned bovine leather.

Just a little bit of clean up of the gluelines and give it a good polish....

Terribly sad situation for this boy and his mates. We had 4 shark attacks in 3 days in Australia recently... never nice to hear but still hard to stay out of the surf.

All sorted, my license just needed to be undated with Trimble.. I'm away. Thanks Dave.

Yes I have tried that too and get an AI response with steps to fix it. Have been through that as well and had to uninstall the license server account and reinstall.. still nothing.

I will keep trying through; it woudl be great to just get a resonse from someone real to see if they can help.
I appreciate you chipping in mate. Will let you know how I go.

HI Dave, you're well mate! Yes I did log in to Trimble Connect andclieck My Products which is where I downloaded the VRay file to load which I have done. Tried the Contact Us link if still having trouble and it said there was an authentication error via Salesforce....

Once loaded, I signed into Vray/ Help/Chaos Account which was successful but when I click 'Manage Chaos License Server' it tells me 'No licenses available'
Have contacted Trimble support each day for tha last 3 days and nothing back... bit frustrating!

I have tried a number of times to load VRAy into SU as I have a Studio subscription which I believe VRay is included in. I have done eah step to load and sign into Chaos license server but still when I open a toolbar it say there is no active VRay license.

Very frustrating as I have been troubleshooting for a few days now so I thought I'd reach out. With thanks.

@nickchun thanks mate, I appreciate the feedback...

Hi guys, I got around to making this little project.
Decided to stick with SU and it was easier that I thought.

Modelled and laid it our into a template.

Took a few days in total but has turned out not to bad.... all hand punched / hand stitched with 1.0mm waxed thread. Vegetable tanned bovine leather.

Just a little bit of clean up of the gluelines and give it a good polish....

@Rich-O-Brien Hey mate, hope you're doing well...
Thanks for the feedback Rich, I don't render as much as I have done in the past but still want the system to do so when the need arises... I'll certainly pose the question to them and see what difference in price it is.

You know; I often think about Basecamp 2010 in Colarado and the Sketchuppers I met there... was such a long time ago but always fond memories to maybe get back in the room with some quality people.

Cheers mate.

Hi everyone, have been a little quiet of late with working remotely. Great to be back here and seeing some longtime members.
I'm about to pull the lever on a new desktop [old one kicked the bucket after nearly 8 years] so I'm a bit rusty on what hardware / combinations SU members are using.

Attached is the specs I've received from my local computer shop. They suggest that AMD have taken a huge leap forward over Intel; I recall the opposite applied when I last built a system.

I woudl love some feedback on what you guys are using or prefer to for your ideal setup.

Have a super day.

Thanks Pete, that looks liek the ideal program for my littel hobby!!