Sketchup & iPad2 - exciting times!

Very cool. Now, if you weren't a blind old heifer, you could use a smaller menu system so the project could be shown larger.

P.S: Can you design/draw directly on the iPad, or just view?

-- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca

Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Like someone said (I think elsewhere, and this is paraphrased), waiting with baited breath for the port of Sketchup for the iPad. But, given the "love" between google and apple, that bait may become stinky ...

I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to cliches, but that's one of them.

Try "bated breath". :)

And no, C-Less, it is just a 3D model viewer which allows you pan, zoom, and orbit around your model. Three actions that were heretofore impossible to do outside SU on any device except a computer capable of running the program itself.

That's indeed progress ... besides, I can't imagine anyone wanting to design any custom piece of cabinetry or furniture on anything less than a computer capable of running the software, and with a mouse/pointing device attached.

Swingman wrote in news:oeKdnaMkZO- XVf3TnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Thanks!! I looked it up:

My excuse is that English is my second language, and there is no direct equivalent in Dutch that I know of.

Nice!

Thanx for that information. It makes more sense now. English is my first language.

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My excuse is that English is my second language, and there is no direct equivalent in Dutch that I know of.

Hey, give the furriner a break. He couldn't have used the "stinky" part without his misspelliung.

Cool enough.

There's that. I was thinking of quick designs to grab new contracts while in the field. (I process smaller potatoes than your org does, and I've sold things from a sketch on a 3x5" paper notepad.)

-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

iPad lacks the computing resources to pull it off. Maybe someday with "heavily arms" iPads.

You would think woodworkers, of all people, would comprehend using the right tool for the job.

No one who actually uses one, and is therefore familar with the purposes for which an iPad is ideally suited, would consider wanting to use Sketchup on one to "design".

An iPad is an ideal _presentation_ tool. I would not use one to design on anymore than I would use a hammer to carve a cufflink.

Okay...("use a hammer to carve a cufflink") in my files/brainpan.

I bought my sweet Angela an iPad2 for finishing her Masters Degree and I have had a chance to play with it up at the cottage and SO see the potential to use it as presentation tool. Perfect for that job. Perfect. But inputting on it? Na... you need 2 big monitors and keyboards and stuff...

After that it's a simple transfer.

Yeah, me, too. (You'd use a mallet, not a hammer, right? ;)

Grok that.

-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

=A0 =A0 =A0 -- George Bernard Shaw

Now what's the problem......?

Bingo!

No problem. You forgot what "grok" meant, dincha? OK, Toysie.

Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed?to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science?and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.

-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

That's what I thought, but thanks for putting it out in the open again, Larry. -- Best regards Han email address is invalid

I'm not as dumb as I look, you know...well..how COULD I be?

Robatoy wrote in news:e23058d7-371f-4d80-9aa8- snipped-for-privacy@fd21g2000vbb.googlegroups.com:

With such a lovely face? Naah, impossible ...

What's her reaction to it so far?

She loves it. Emai, weather, news, some medical apps, her entire medication library, and Angry Birds. She's not totally convinced it is going supplant her desire to feel and smell a book, so as a reader, the jury is out. With the funeral and the visitors from the US and other places, she really hasn't had the time to snoop for aps. So far she loves it and I'm sure it will grow on her more as it fits in one of the side pockets of her lab-coat.