[AT] Another OT computer related but could be tractor friendly

[Larry Goss]

OK  Things do change, and it may have changed since the last time I tried to work with it.

Those things seem to happen more often than I ever remember in the past.  :-)

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008 7:44
Subject: Re: [AT] Another OT computer related but could be tractor friendly
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Larry, it doesn't require any internet access at all to run it 
> after it's 
> downloaded unless you want to interface it with google earth for 
> placing 
> models on a particular site.  Otherwise it just runs inside 
> the computer.
> 
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Another OT computer related but could be 
> tractor friendly
> 
> 
> > FWIW, Sketch-up comes highly recommended by my colleagues who 
> are still 
> > teaching at universities across the county.  It does an 
> excellent job of 
> > getting you started in modeling and documentation.  I 
> haven't tried 
> > loading and using it since I got high-speed Internet here at 
> home, but it 
> > does require that in order to be efficient.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
> > Date: Friday, October 24, 2008 17:44
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Another OT computer related but could be 
> tractor 
> > friendly
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >
> >> from looking at the tutorials, it looks like a powerful
> >> program.  I need
> >> something to use for site layouts instead of the old drafting
> >> stuff.  I
> >> don't have the room anymore for a drafting board.  I have
> >> been looking
> >> at a lot of programs and wasted a lot of time trying to run
> >> autocad.  I
> >> have an old version of autocad.  perhaps I could upgrade
> >> it, but the
> >> learning curve is so long, I just cannot justify it.  I am
> >> taking a
> >> website development course at the local vo-tech to be able to
> >> set up a
> >> means to sell my engineering services, antique cars and trucks
> >> and
> >> tractors and parts.  All I need is one more learning
> >> situation....
> >> Cecil in OKla
> >>
> >> charlie hill wrote:
> >> > Some time back I mentioned Google Sketch-up.  I played
> >> with this for a time
> >> > and gave it up.  Then  I reloaded it and this 
> time I
> >> actually looked at the
> >> > tutorials and some online video instructions plus I bought
> >> Google Sketch up
> >> > for dummies.
> >> >
> >> > If any of you are interested in conceptual drawings of
> >> buildings, models, or
> >> > most anything you should try this software.  Use the
> >> tutorial that comes
> >> > with it and go online to this site
> >> > Http://sketchup.google.com/gsu5vtvideos.html and kill  an
> >> hour or so looking
> >> > at the videos.  They are done by the same guy, Aidan
> >> Chopra, that wrote
> >> > Sketch-up for Dummies.  After about 4 or 5 hours of
> >> learning curve you'll be
> >> > amazed at what you can do with the software.
> >> > It will be a good way to spend some cold winter days in a
> >> month or so.  I
> >> > have a couple of projects I'm trying to design with it.
> >> I've also used it
> >> > to build "as built" drawings for some modifications I did 
> at a
> >> tank farm
> >> > recently.
> >> >
> >> > Sorry if I'm boring anyone with this off topic but I hate not
> >> to pass it
> >> > along.  If you want to build a barn or tractor shed and
> >> want to know what it
> >> > will look like when it's done this is the way to find out.
> >> >
> >> > If anyone is interested I'll be glad to go into it further 
> off list.
> >> >
> >> > Charlie
> >> >
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