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Rich:
nice "compound"
with all the fencing study your walk flows and ensure you have easy access to various areas
without having to "go the long way" just to get there
is there access for large trucks - say a tree cutter to get to most sections of the site ?
I have 2/3 acre and have a 12' wide double gate at the front for large vehicles
been here 2 years and so far had a cement mixer for an addition and a tree truck
also had my pre-built shed delivered and dropped on site
Lew
I am truly blessed Lew. With all the good and bad decisions
we end up making in life, somehow I managed to land on my
feet in making perhaps the biggest decision of all, where we
are going to live.
Funny you should mention fencing and walk flows. After about
2 weeks on the property I made my first major investment and
bought myself a Honda Recon ATV. I haven't regretted it for
one moment since . The fences were all erected by the
dear little lady who previously owned the place. She was a
legend in the neighborhood on her tractor with her post hole
digger. The fences do help control the flow of wild critters
across the property.
Here is a rafter of the local gals out for their morning constitutional.
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OK, here’s the poop. First off thanks for all
the suggestions. I had a play with this over
the weekend and this is what I came up with.
As suggested, there are several ways to go
about spacing out and rotating a row of trees.
But… but… but… there is no way I can find to
automagically vary the heights of the trees.
I’m a visually oriented guy and I start to glaze
over when I’m 700+ pages into the manual and
trying to sort out Absolute and Relative angles,
so I prepared a little demonstration with a
generic tree fitted with a dorsal fin to aide in
observing the changes in object orientation.
In the end I used a combination of approaches.
I broke the trees into 8 groups of 20 trees each
which also happens to be way they are laid out for
irrigation purposes. Then I created 8 Polyline
Distribution Paths using the Random Angle Object
Orientation and increasing the mean height of the
trees in each path to create a stair step effect.
I chose the Polyline Distribution Path over the
Transform/Replicate option because it offered
the Random Angle feature. Finally, (and Glenn
neglected to mention this ), I exploded the
Distributed Objects which enables the selection
of individual trees again and manually adjusted
the heights of about 75% of them to get the
desired ascending – descending effect for the
whole line of trees.
I won’t bore you with how long this process took
but suffice it to say that if I was hiring Bryce
to do it I would be out hundreds of dollars.
Anyhoo, there they are. 160 trees with no 2 alike.
BTW, this is for a site plan I am working on for
my spread here. The area encompassed by the
fence is exactly 2 acres and contains all of the
structures on the property. I still have several
structures and dozens of trees to add to the
plan (file size is currently 18MB and climbing).
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Wasn't that back when dinosaurs roamed the earth?
Where did you play? My meteoric career was cut tragically
short when I blew out my ACL in my sophomore year at
San Jose State.
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I don't know Cadman, when I placed both of those
symbols in a plan neither one looked to be 3D. I've
wasted all the time I'm going to trying to figure out
how get the Plant Chooser and the Library Browser
synced up. I have created a plan specifically for 3D
plants and I just drag the symbol in question into that
plan and see how it looks. Since I can rarely find the
specific type of plant (especially trees) I want I usually
end up picking out a symbol that resembles what I am
looking for and going with that.
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Here's my approach. Let me preface these remarks by
saying that I run all my "A" programs on a dedicated
stand alone workstation. If you are on a network I
wouldn't necessarily advocate this approach.
First off I almost never install a new program while
connected to the internet (the rare exception being
some software updates downloaded from the internet).
Obviously I always try to obtain a hard copy (CD DVD
etc.) of the software I buy and install. Once a program
is installed I will then connect to the internet to activate
and update it as necessary. This approach precludes
having the installation programs running amok and
installing all kinds of unnecessary things.
The first thing I do after installing Windows is to
systematically disable Windows Update, Messenger
and Windows Firewall. I also run without any anti-
virus software whatsoever. IMHO, antivirus software
is by its nature a virus (a benign virus hopefully but a
virus none the less) that always runs in the background
using up valuable resources and interfering with normal
computer operations. I don't use my workstation to surf
the internet. I have older "retired" rigs that I use for that.
I tend to upgrade at semi-regular intervals and when I
do I usually upgrade everything at the same time. For
example my previous rig was a Pentium4 running
Windows XP Pro, Internet Explorer 8, Office 2003,
Adobe Acrobat 9 etc. It was so stable and reliable that
I used it until much of the software had become "sunset"
and the advent of newer versions finally forced me to
upgrade. Now I'm up to Windows 7 Ultimate, Internet
Explorer 11, Office 2010 and Adobe Acrobat 10. When
I get a good combination of compatible programs I
rarely worry about updating them unless something
comes along that is really worthwhile. I don't mind
being a version or two behind what is considered to
be cutting edge as I find these programs are usually
more stable and have had any major problems resolved.
What does all of this mean? You tell me. I find my
rigs to be fast, reliable and crash free. And in the event
that something should go terribly awry I am not above
taking a night off and doing a fresh install of Windows
and all my programs. In fact I advocate this practice
from time to time to give your rig a new lease on life.
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You could go to DJP's house.
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Lisa, what Scott was so eloquently trying to say is
that if you enable "show shadows" in the Render/
Preview Options section of the Preferences menu
the shadows will always stay on (even when panning
and rotating). A very nice touch.
BTW, I think the speed with which the shadows are
now rendered is more a function of an improvement
in version X6 than your fast Mac. They are fast for
everyone now.
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I would be interested in knowing what kind of
speed increase you realize if you get around
to overclocking your CPU. I have never put
the overclocking capabilities of my rig to use
as for the most part the plans I work with
haven't been that complex and I haven't seen
the need.
Nice crisp RT's BTW, and your second image
reminds me that roundball season starts tonite.
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..... I do not want to be the cheapest guy on the block. So funny, I used to be proud of the fact that I was the cheapest guy on the block..... and it worked okay for me......
I mean how much does it cost to furnish the underside of a freeway overpass.
LOL! I don't remember which of the first astronauts it was.
Alan Shepard, I believe, who when asked what he was
thinking while sitting on top of a rocket about to be launched
into space replied that he was thinking that the rocket had
been built by the lowest bidder.
BTW, I think I'm beginning to see why your internet connection
is so slow. Time-Warner isn't going to upgrade service to that
overpass any time soon.
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Don't know why I didn't try this sooner but if
you don't enter anything in the "Name" field of
the Plant Chooser and instead just select a box
in the "Type" field (along with any appropriate
Sub-Type) and hit the Search Button you will get
a list of everything of that type in the Browser.
Unfortunately as Jon and Nic have noted you
can't tell which ones are 2D and which ones
are 3D.
I too would be interested in a site for good
quality 3D tree symbols since the Library
and Bonus Catalog 3D offerings are limited
at best.
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It looks to me like you are trying to access the 3d feature
while you are still in plan view. If you open or create your
3d view those options will be available to you. Most of the
3D dropdown menu items are unavailable in plan view.
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Does anybody know of a way to get the Library
Browser to display the plants by their Common
Names and not the Scientific Names? I really
don't want to become a Botany major just so
I can locate a Walnut or Apricot tree. And of
course as we all know by now the search
feature is as useless as teats on a boar hog.
I do realize that you can cross reference the
names in the Plant Chooser but you have to
enter each category of plant individually and
there are dozens of categories.
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Apple's share is still rather small
Lew
Heaven knows I don't want to start a range war....
But I've read that the Mac division (as small as it is)
is one of Apple's biggest cash cows. Why? Because
the profit margin on those machines is very high.
Translation, Apple is gouging you guys.
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A couple more mystery layers:
-"0" (I am sure there is a reason for this otherwise it would not be there..... but I have not figured it out)
- DEFPOINTS (I have never understood this layer)
Those two layers are two of the basic AutoCAD layers.
Whenever you open a new drawing (.dwg) file in ACAD
it automatically creates layer "0". Once you dimension
anything in the drawing ACAD creates the "Defpoints"
layer. These layers cannot be deleted in ACAD.
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....I have a feeling I will never be able to get rid of my PC. Why can't I get rid of the PC?
Resistance is futile. It's a Window's world.
BTW, what is Apple's market share these days?
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I see Jintu got the transfer accomplished. Sorry, I got
sidetracked last night and by the time I checked back
you guys figured it out.
Mick, I haven't tried to download or install anything yet,
but after seeing Jintu's gorgeous sample I will definitely
be checking it out. I was hoping you guys would get the
process all smoothed out and then I will waltz in and
reap the benefits.
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@Rich ...do the images go too if you copy paste to another thread ? I can always repost if I can get it to work
I tried but the images won't post.
Do you guys want me to transfer Mick's tutorial to the Corona thread?
If I copy and paste Mick's original post (#38) the images transfer fine.
If I copy and paste Jintu's copy of Mick's post (#41) the links to the
images transfer and are active so the pics can be accessed.
I would have just gone ahead and transferred the post but there
seemed to be some question as to whether the steps were working
properly or needed to be tweaked.
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I don't see a Corona Thread Jintu?
Mick, that thread is in the chatroom.
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Hi
Thanks for your tutorial. Please allow me to repost this in the Corona thread, this information is important. The question is how.
Just highlight Mick's post and copy it. Then go to
the other thread and past it into the reply window.
I think here is where I'm supposed to say ... easy peasy.
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Looks like that Holstein on the floor didn't fare too well either.
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Yep, there's a lot to like about SSD's. Why wouldn't
you want to replace an internal disk spinning at 5 to
10 thousand rpm with a drive that has no moving
parts? Think about that, no moving parts. Are you
kidding me, a fence post has no moving parts. A
rock has no moving parts. How the heck does a
highly sophistimacated doowhackey like a data
storage and retrieval device have no moving parts?
A Row Of Trees
in General Q & A
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I would love to have the capability to be able to
vary the sizes of distributed objects as well as the
spacing and rotational angle, however I'm not sure
I have the total grasp of the concepts necessary
to make a feasible request.
It's always interesting to me just what computer
programs think "random" is. One could make the
argument that any combination is possible. It
just depends on the size of the sample and the
time over which it is taken. It's the old "room full
of monkeys banging away at typewriters" that
would eventually write all the great works of
literature if given enough time deal.
Actually I have had this sick idea festering in the
back of my mind that I should vary the heights of
the trees to exactly correspond to the heights of
the actual trees. This of course would require me
to individually edit all 160 trees. Aaarrrggghhh!
BTW, to update that room full of monkeys deal
maybe it would be more appropriate to speculate
that a room full of monkeys at the keyboard with
Chief could eventually design the Taj Mahal.