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hi, i just installed 10.10.3 and my spacenavigator behave funny in VW 2015. i tried to reinstall, invert or remove commands in the settings, but nothing seems to work. so i tried VW 2014 in the same 10.10.3 and space navigator works great. also, the puck works great in other apps. any hint on what to do?

no offense, my critics was not to you but targeting all the support people who say "oh my god..." when i say that i am working on a 150MB file all in 3d. it so silly, in 2013, thinking to put out a cad software that do all those 3d stuff and not using it because no computer can support it, even high end product. but hey, i have been using this soft since early days of mini cad on mac and still using it and still proud of using it instead of autocad or inventors or solid works. i have always used macs for working because with them you concentrate on work and not on the machine your on. and we have to look at what i am saying, more like a wish list than free criticism. and i also know that, to code what i asked for, in a complex piece of soft like VW, is more than ripping an mp3 on an ipod, so it is a perfect case of "easy to say, no so to do..."

i am very happy to see that i am not the only one who think that multithreading, 64-bit, better openGL and multiple window must be the APEX priority at VW. and for those at VW who are likely to think that if we end up with 200MB file is because we do not know how to model, well here is the news: my 200MB file are super stripped down to minimum, meaning the least possible complexity in modeling with the least poly, sweeps and extrudes with the minimum resolution, textures to minimum, etc. i do 3D/animation/rendering in other soft since many years and for me it has been a MUST to strip down to minimum, in short, i know how to be efficient in 3D. When i work for example, with Strata 3D, whatever i do, i always see 24 processors (12 cores x 2 threads(hypertreading)) to full 100% when i work or render. it is the same with Adobe Master Producer Suite. With Adobe, there is also another advantage that VW could capitalized big on. it is CUDA. With my Quadro 4000, you must see how fast encoding a video or rendering in AfterEffect is. IT IS SO FAST THAT I AM AFFRAID TO EVEN TOUCH THE CASING OF MY COMPUTER, afraid of being burned by it! the difference between an Ati 5770 an the Quadro, in rendering in after effect is 8x minimum! that is because they came up with Mercury Engine which uses the 256 cores of the quadro to render to screen. that should be so AWESOME if VW could come up with that! OH! God, let me take my breath for a moment....;p and from my point of view, even with those annoying problems, i very much like VW to model and will be very sad if they do not do something about those things because there is other great cad packages out there that begins to be very interesting, integrating 3D, nurds, simulation, etc. that will bias us, buyers, when it comes to buy a cad package for a definite amount of $$$. so VW team, think of it!

searching on the site i found your post you are right to be upset about the "single thread" "non 64bit" VW13 is working. by my standard, it is an evident lack of vision not to urgently work on that problem from the developer. it took the alliance with Cinema4D in the render section to give us full multi threading and 64bits, which increased dramatically the performance of raytracing and radiosity. but everything rendered in other format than raytracing and radiosity is not realized by the C4D engine and therefore very slow. i have a dream machine, a 12 cores mac with 32 gig of ram and a quadro 4000 card and even with that, if i do a line render on a 150MB file the computer is on his knee asking me to end is misery! when i asked them about that, all i had as an answer was that "who creates 150MB files anyway?..." so for now, the only thing to do is keeping asking for multi threading and full 64bits and multiple windows like any decent 3D sofware out there and hope someone will listen and do it...before we die!

hi every one, concerning the snow leopard installing problem, i just talk to my rep and she says that the installer is not compatible with 10.6.2 and she will send me a new 2009 disk for installation on snow. so probably your problem is the same! bye

hi, you probably checked "check for updates..." in the installer. well, the update software included in the installer do not work with snow leopard, so it creates error and stop the installer somewhere in the 3/4 of installation, sometimes further. so try to unchecked the "check for update..." button at the beginning of installation and maybe it will go through perfectly. once installed, do in VW "check for updates" and it will do it. bye