...There is still a problem

Hey

This past week we were not able to work from our complete K Drive as it is still being fixed in Cape Town. There is however a temporary drive set up so that we are able to work from some of the work that has been uploaded before the K Drives hard drive was sent off to Cape Town.

With all that said I hadn't had much work to do at practice this week because of the accessibility of the work that we need from the K Drive. The Only work I did do was continue working on a sketch up model which I thought I would finish in the middle of the week but only finished by the end of the week. I had some complications with sketch up as some of my faces did not want to create surfaces and they were just lines. I did not know what was wrong because from what I could see the lines were connected. After many frustrating attempts at trying to connect the lines I would eventually give up and redraw whatever I was trying to connect. I eventually discovered that the Auto CAD drawings that I imported into sketch up did not have straight lines. This was confusing to me because all the lines of the drawing in Auto CAD were straight but when I imported them to sketch up they didn't line up. These lines were out by a millimetre or less because it was not evident in the drawing. I asked a colleague of mine and he told me that if you import drawings from Auto Cad into sketch up you have to make sure all the lines are straight otherwise they will not line up if you had to construct a model in sketch up. Even if the lines are out by a single millimeter they will not create a face in sketch up. I was told to rather then drawing from Auto CAD drawings it is better to measure the drawings and construct it in that manner. This way you ensure that the lines in sketch up are straight and that the model is being built or constructed in the correct manner. This is vital because if we had to hand it to the graphic designing team, it makes there jobs a lot easier as it makes the rendering of faces much easier.

That is all for this week, not much work but enough to get through the week.
Till next Friday , PEACE and have a good one :)