SYSTEM-X DESIGNER WANTED

[cachalote]

thank you skypurr. 
let's see how far we can take this. 

[socrates]

keep up the good work! 

I just can second Elaine! 
This is a great project - and I am completely sure that this will become a very important contribution to the collectors world! I imagine an exchange of building plans as we are right now exchanging links from playmodb... 
So, let's try how far we can get with this...

best,
socrates

[tonguello]

Is anybody having trouble with sketchup 8?? It doesn't work fine either at the office nor at my home pc. I can't figure out what the problem is but I can't see my guide lines for instance, they are there, but invisible..... I have some other problems... can anyone think of a solution? or I jsut should uninstall it and start all over?
Cheers.
Gaston

[Indianna]

Hi Gaston! 

I can't be much help as I am just learning SketchUp too, but I tried going to the SketchUp help forum and did a search on the term "invisible guide lines" -  I don't know if your answer can be found there but you might try some other questions there.   

[tonguello]

Hi Gaston! 

I can't be much help as I am just learning SketchUp too, but I tried going to the SketchUp help forum and did a search on the term "invisible guide lines" -  I don't know if your answer can be found there but you might try some other questions there.   

Thank you indianna. I'll try that again. I did it with no results! I'll keep trying.

[Sir Pleamo]

Is anybody having trouble with sketchup 8?? It doesn't work fine either at the office nor at my home pc. I can't figure out what the problem is but I can't see my guide lines for instance, they are there, but invisible..... I have some other problems... can anyone think of a solution? or I jsut should uninstall it and start all over?
Cheers.
Gaston

Well, SketchUp 8 seems to be published a little bit too early, it has some strange bugs. Most Problems seems to come from the Plug-Ins, so try to deactivate all of them. The Ruby-Script makes sometimes problems... But all in all SU8 is a little bit slower too. If you have installed more than one SU (e.g. SU7 and SU8) this causes problems too. Maybe it helps! Oh, by the way clear the not used temps regulary. You also could try to repair the installation instead uninstall the program...

In this sense good luck!

[Sir Pleamo]

...a more complex model (now with this crane 3112 is definitely completed):

[cachalote]

wow, "the" crane - one of my preferred playmo parts. 
thank you so much sir pleamo, you are a true "master". 
cranes always make me remember of a time i had to climb to a big abandoned one to fix a "jumping" halyard from the top of my uncle's boat.
everything went fine while i was climbing but to stay at the end of the rusty crane's "arm" swinging with the wind (lying with my belly down) and trying to "fish" the mast's top (also swinging with the moving water) with one hand is something that still today gives me the creeps.
12 meters in this situation seem as high as 60.

... but not to deviate too much from the subject, this crane comes from a time when geobra still tried to do sets with a "close" link to reality. 
this crane is actually very similar to a "real" small crane to hoyst small boats and its mechanics work fine. 

maybe this 3d project - in its future "free" aproach to design new system-x parts - can convince geobra to abandon its we-really-try-to-impress-dumb-children recent design trend  (but children are really not that stupid) and go back to hans beck's efforts to make things "work". 
in his times this equilibrium between a toy-look and a real-look was so wonderfully achieved.

[tonguello]

thanx sir pleamo. I'll try that too!
That crane is awesome!!!! Really great!!!

[skypurr]

Having shown this to Junior he has shown interest in having a go at this.
Could anyone tell us how to go about getting sketchup -  is it sketchup 8 that we need, what does it cost etc?
We are on a pc not mac.
Thanks,

Elaine