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  1. I have seen this problem too. A quick work around seems to be drawing a disposable version of what you are trying to create without using the snap loupe. Then when you use the snap loupe to initiate geometry it seems to work. It seems that some form of view change prior to trying to use the snap loupe for creation causes this failure. HTH, Ion
  2. I think what Orso is talking about is the preselection highlighting showing from merely mousing over objects. And the selection highlighting post click. I checked my alpha copy of Rhino for the mac and it does show selection highlighting in all viewports, but no pre-selection highlighting. It doesn't show all possible snaps, only the nearest one, but does show them in all viewports. HTH, ion
  3. It is the Create similar object command. A very handy addition to VW2009. Essentially it allows you to create another object simply by holding down those keys and clicking on a door for example. It makes a copy of the original that you can place somewhere else. There is a preference in the Vectorworks preferences that will control if you will be switched to the same layer an object is picked up from. HTH, ion
  4. I have had luck importing the raster image into a 1:1 layer and then making a layer above that at the scale of the image, 1:1136 in your case, and then measuring a known distance. Almost always this gives me what I am after. The issue of course is if you want to draw at a different scale, but that is what the Object scale tool is for I suppose. HTH, Ion
  5. Some interesting testing data on these macs Barefeats
  6. and refuge from the conficker virus... Funny that Microsoft had to hire an actor to perform the "unscripted" purchasing decision. Lauren's home page Ion always have been cool enough for a mac, always will be.
  7. Keith, Don't know if you tried to do what I suggested with the viewport, but I was able to viewport in other layers geometry, change to whatever view I wanted and trace/snap to those objects. Maybe I am missing something about what you are trying to do, but it seems that it should work for you. HTH, Ion
  8. Why would you not cut/paste what you want duplicated from one layer to another? If that doesn't work, why not simply make a viewport of the other layer(s) on your current layer and trace over that? HTH, ion
  9. ionw

    stairs

    The same smoothing angle options exist for the viewport. Just under where you chose the hidden line rendering, is a button to set the line rendering options for the viewport. HTH, Ion
  10. Ray, There is something strange about this Polyline. my Object settings are all checked, and I am seeing what Benson is describing. Try the extrude to see the pretty show i described above... ion
  11. Highpass, I believe if you take the template you would like to come up at startup and save it as a template named Default.sta and put it in the Templates folder of the User then that is what comes up at startup, and when you choose Blank document. HTH, Ion
  12. Nice catch, I ran into that above below roofline issue and ended up faking it because of deadlines, shocking I know. Thanks for the tip it is a good one. ion
  13. Hi Benson, That is a weird one. It gets even weirder if you extrude the shape, because everything above the fail points appears extruded, and everything below disappears. but if you do an Open GL rendering visually the bottom comes back into view, but the selection highlighting only indicates the top part exists. if you double click to edit, you see the whole shape. I highly recommend sending it to bugsubmit. As far as the one question I can answer, yes it is expected the copy paste from 08 to 09 would be a bitmap or fail all togther. Wish I could have been more help ion
  14. And to add to the overabundance of information on this relatively simple sounding question, if you want to start a selection rectangle that originates over a Filled object, hold the shift key down and it will ignore the object below the cursor. This does not work with the 2D reshape tool marquee mode. HTH, ion
  15. Depends which version you use. If you use 2008 and earlier, no. In version 2009 you can set that option in the Preferences. See Image below:
  16. I think the full backup option is the Save a copy as available in the file menu.
  17. LAN or not, what you describe seems far removed from the the Norm. Over the 8 years I have been at my firm, we have been through 6 versions of vectorworks, 6 Mac OS versions, 3 different server configurations, transitions from PPC to Intel processors, a transition from 100Bt to 1000Bt networking. We have varied from 15-20 employees and we are not seeing the consistent crashing that you are. Does the program crash? yes, but occasionally. Most of our employees will work for weeks without issue at all. This is not to say all is milk and honey in the land of Vectorworks, some tools don't do what we want, we have to come up with workarounds as well. Does there seem to be any pattern to the crashes you are having? Are they related to a tool group, e.g. section viewports, site modeling?
  18. That was obviously not VW 2009.... it was either 12.5.x or 2008
  19. A few years back I brought in a 3ds file made in Rhino, but I was mainly doing it for review not rigorous work, so I don't know what drawbacks that would have. HTH, Ion
  20. While CUPS is free, it depends how many prints you are charging for. For us, with 16 stations, we often bill for a several hundred letter pages and usually 15-2000 Architectural D sheets split over 60 different jobs in a month. At that point having an integrated database for reports pays for itself in a single month. Over the course of 60 months you start talking a couple annual salaries. If you are a one or two (wo)man show then see if mining the CUPS logs works for you, as Islandmon points out it is free. But track your time, because at most common billing rates a single hour spent mining that log would pay for a license of PrintCapture. Also don't forget to make the CUPS log work for you, you would have to be militant that you and everyone else put a job identifier in the file name before printing to be able to properly assign it to a job. It takes surprisingly few web based spec sheets, architectural sheets named Untitled-1,2... to pay for a license either. No I am not a company shill, no I don't think that it is a perfect solution, but sometimes 95% is better doing nothing. Just my USD0.02 whatever that is worth nowadays, ion
  21. We currently use PrintCapture by Gluon software. It has served us well for nearly five years. it can be configured to several different capture types. The only issue we have had is that one no matter what they try we can't seem to capture prints to USB connected printers. The other consideration is that you need to configure the printers names exactly on the capture station and the client station otherwise Printcapture discards those prints... unless you check track all printers, but then it tracks Adobe PDF maker prints as well, making an issue when billing. $100/station Another possibility I looked at recently is SepiaLine. They were adamant that they didn't have the above mentioned shortcomings, and they started tracking wide format not normal sizes like PrintCapture. You also need to have one PC to run the managing software, but tracks Mac or PC. $150/station. HTH, ion
  22. ionw

    Decompose walls

    While Pat's method does what you are after, I prefer to use the Ungroup command. It will ask you if you want to ungroup high level objects, say yes and continue ungrouping until you you object counts no longer increases. For example a single wall with a single door took three Ungroups to make it entirely primitives. The reason I like this is that it gives you all the component parts of the doors and windows. Door swings are arcs, wall-component fills are maintained. It really depends on what you are after. HTH, ion
  23. Look under the vectorworks section of your print menu. If it isn't visible, ups the circled pop-down and adjust the value at the arrow HTH, ion
  24. I would try a different dwg, one that possibly you have successfully imported before. we have no issues here.
  25. ionw

    Grid Bubble

    I don't know that it was clear what I was saying either. We work with a master floor plan that has the master grid layer on it. This is setup in DD before it goes out to the team doing CD's. Then we make individual files for each sheet that all reference back to the master sheet via viewports. So we do end up with multiple grids on multiple sheets in the annotation layers, but the master grids can be turned on for each sheet to check the veracity of the 'local' grids. Unfortunately we experienced the issue you are having, with scale, with layouts on multiple sheets. We still haven't found a way to bring one set of grids for the whole project. Our system works fairly well, but could definitely use improvement. ion
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