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    Vectorworks User Interface Overhaul

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

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    A new UI isn’t just about making it pretty. It’s about increasing functionality, look and feel, ease of use and importantly brand.  It’s important that the software is seen to be moving on and keeping up to date. For me Vectorworks (though I love it really) feels like a hotch potch of tools. Like my garden shed - crammed full of tools making them hard to find and when I do find them they are often broken. 

     

    New features are laid on top and not always integrated fully - and old features are left to fester with no way of knowing which is which. 

     

     Not to mention the funny quirks that we are probably used to but don’t even notice now we are so used to them. 

     

    I did did some training recently and couldn’t believe how many times I said “I know it’s not intuitive”, or “I know it’s a bit odd”

     

    Vectorworks feels so so old and out of date now. When I slip into autocad for Mac, or Cinema 4D or even twinmotion it just feels so much nicer. 

     

    I’ve said this every year for the last 5 years “so much for a new UI with this version”. 

     

    My money is now firmly on never. 

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    WWDC 2019 - Mac Pro Hopes

    in Hardware

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    On 6/5/2019 at 4:40 PM, JRA-Vectorworks-CAD said:

    @jeff prince I am using 2 32" 4K BENQ displays running from my Macbook Pro, now using an external Razer Core X GPU with Vega 64 and its works a treat.

     

    The 32" BENQ monitors are matt finish unlike shiny iMac screen and are really good value and recommended, and have great features and inputs Galore. The PD3200U is the better quality one but I cant really tell the difference not the second screen. If you are interested heres some benchmark and testing of the razor Core.

     

     

     

     

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    Hi @JRA-Vectorworks-CAD

     

    I’m looking at a new display for my MacBook Pro.  Is this set up still working well for you a year down the line?

    Sharing files advice

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hello

     

    I have a large VWX file which I want to share with a supplier who also uses VWX2019.  My large VWX file has about 5 referenced files as referenced viewports

     

    I only want to share specific parts of the drawing - not the whole lot.

     

    Oddly - usually when I share like this, the recipient wants a DWG - in which case I set a saved view then export to DWG from there.  As they want a VWX I can't do that.

     

    Any ideas?  I could set up the elements they want as a separate file - then reference that into the main file, but that doesn't solve the problem as some of the layers I want to share are already referenced in from an external file.  There doesn't seem to be a way of breaking a reference and importing the file in its current state - thus creating one file from many.

     

    Any ideas?

     

    Can someone tell me how I can select this symbol please?

    in Troubleshooting

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    On 1/26/2019 at 10:10 PM, Matt Panzer said:

    It looks lie Vectorworks thinks the symbol is a 2D only symbol but it should be a 3D only symbol. When you edit the symbol definition's 2D component via the Resource Manager, then immediately exited the edit mode and the selection problem goes away because Vectorworks reexamines the contents of the symbol.So, the question is how the symbol got this way.

    Thanks Matt

     

    No idea how the symbol got that way to be honest.  Is there a way of forcing Vectorworks to reexamine all the content of all the symbols and therefore resetting and fixing it?  Or do I need to go through each symbol one by one?

    Can someone tell me how I can select this symbol please?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Thank you Kevin

     

    That is correct. That symbol has objects in the 2D portion of the symbol set to the 3D plane (so confusing) and that throws VWX. 

     

    I don’t know how it got moved onto type 3D plane and it has happened to lots of symbols and seems to have happened suddenly. I’d been working on this file a lot in Mojave and 2019 and am pretty sure it only just happened. All I can think of is a couple of weeks ago I deleted some classes and reassigned objects for a Rudy up and I wonder if something happened then. 

     

    So frustrating. Is this all part of the new symbol editing in 2019?  So complicated. 

     

    Thabks again for checking this out

    Can someone tell me how I can select this symbol please?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted · Edited by Andrew Davies

    On 1/24/2019 at 11:44 AM, RussU said:

    Are the chairs in with the table, as part of the same symbol?

    Can you pop your symbols in a new file and send it over? Mark and I can have a look at what's up

    Hi

     

    Thanks - here is my file (I thought I uploaded this a couple of days ago, but it must have failed)

     

    On 1/24/2019 at 4:30 PM, Kevin McAllister said:

    Have you tried using the "crossing" marquee to select them? If not, hold down the Option key and drag a marquee across them. When you hold down Option and drag a marquee VW will select anything the marquee crosses.

     

    Kevin

     

    Thanks Kevin - always forget that one!  I did try it, and no - it did not work.  

    On 1/24/2019 at 11:25 AM, markdd said:

    Restart and then if that fails,  kick it!

     

    Stumped for now...

     

     

    Was going to restart and if that fails throw the laptop out of the window - that just as good?

     

    Thanks again all.

     

    TEST.vwx

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