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What is Archer?

Caltrops! More caltrops!

Roody_Yogurt wrote:Caltrops! More caltrops!

Ok.

Those are some fine area denial weapons.

I asked H. Jon Benjamin for an explanation. He would not give it to me.

By the way, is there a single celebrity that doesn't appear awkward and illiterate on Twitter? Besides Weird Al. I should give a cash prize to whoever can find #2.

Steve Martin and Conan O'Brien are pretty good. Norm McDonald is funny if you like Norm McDonald (and I do), but he just doesn't tweet enough. Everybody else though, yeah.

pinback wrote:Those are some fine area denial weapons.

I especially liked the one with the blood on it.

I also did a 3D model of a Czech Hedgehog you can view and download from the Google Sketchup Warehouse. What's interesting is you used similar wording to the description I gave for a the Czech Hedgehog, when I wrote "This is a Czech Hedgehog, a European theatre World War II anti-tank weapon. It's roughly 6 feet tall, and designed such that a tank can't simply push it free, the tank will generally end up on top of it. It is what is called an "area denial weapon" in that it attempts to deny enemy access to an area protected by it. "

It's one of more than 100 models I've uploaded both large and small to the 3D warehouse, ranging from a 1/4" nut on a 1" bolt, all the way to several buildings more than 50 stories tall, and many other things. I have both uploaded models to the warehouse as well as included other people's models in stuff I created. It's a lot of fun to do things in 3D that you wouldn't have the capacity to do if you had to use real-life modeling things like clay, wood, metals, etc.

To use any model from the 3d warehouse you need Sketchup 8 which is available in a free download from Google. It's an amazing application for what it does. I'd say it puts the equivalent of a multi-thousand-dollar 3D CAD system into the hands of an ordinary person, for free. Rare cases of people who do professional development and need the extra tools can buy the $495 version.

Sketchup looks like the cad-cam system I use at work, only with a bigger palette and way more textures. Plus it's easier to do the 3-D. Without me going to the website and really looking it ,what sort of filetypes does it use?


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AArdvark wrote:Sketchup looks like the cad-cam system I use at work, only with a bigger palette and way more textures. Plus it's easier to do the 3-D. Without me going to the website and really looking it ,what sort of filetypes does it use?
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Yes, it uses its own proprietary .SKP file as its native format, or for Google Earth geolocated buildings, .KMZ; however, it can export to the open COLLADA (.DAE) format, which is an XML type file. It can also - very slowly, of course, since it has to parse it - import .DAE files and several others. What the professional version has are more file converters.

I saw this the other day.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9705ca41-2 ... 06d42b27f4

I really wish I could figure out who wrote the episode and ask them if the joke was going to be "caltrops.com" but then they changed it.