Andrew Treverton

Printing from Vectorworks 9.0 : The print has missing lines / prints only text or even nothing at all. The problem does not exist when printing a version 8.5 drawing. We have tried this on all of of printers (Epson inkjets/ Design Jet (using Microspot software drivers) and a HP Laserjet.) The problem persists on all machines. We have even tried to export the V 9 file back to 8.5 and try to print but whatever has caused the problem in 9 gets exported too. Please find a file which we have tried to print but has had the problems mentioned above. Vectorworks 9.0 is really slow! The reaction times of the tools are not as fast as 8.5 which is irritating. Even on our latest G4 machines. The problem is worse on Power mac 604e machines. We get messages that serial numbers are in use when they are not. Are we supposed to put all the serial numbers into the software so that it picks on which isn?t being used? On my machine I have found that the prefences have been lost after they have been previously set eg: the line weights changed back from mm to default Mls, the use sound option turned itself back on, eight handle selection turned off etc....seems to revert back to defaults. This is all a really big headache. We are unable to print some documents which some people have spent a week working on- the work is trapped and cannot be printed out. So far Version 9 is a really big disappointment. We can only hope that these problems will be addressed in the update. Please (techs) can you get this looked into really quickly. This is costing us money. Andrew Treverton quote: Originally posted by B Perry: This the perplexing question of the day. Will my work print correctly on my HP Color LaserJet 8550 or will there be randomly missing lines, letters, arrows, and/ or dimension leaders. Today I have a project involving raster images, so my problem is not solved by printing to pdf since the images change to Black and White. So I redraw some of the missing lines to see if they will show up. They do!!! But now others which were previously visible have mysteriously disappeared so now what? Does anyone have a clue? Tech folks? Can you help. I have a job to do and the my excuses are getting old. I am running Win 98 if it matters. Using VW Version 8.5.2.and judging from these message boards VW 9.0 is not a solution. Responses greatly appreciated!

We agree. VW9 is a pain to use. This is just one of many bugs which are costing our company a lot of time and money. Andrew quote: Originally posted by Alistair Kirkwood: i have found that using keystrokes within vectorworks 9 is very slow when compared to VW8.5 for example in vectorworks 8.5 i would select an object while holding OPTION key in order to duplicate it then i could move the duplicated opject with the mose and switch fingers to hold the SHIFT key in order to constrain the horz or vert movement. in VW9 it seems that for each of these steps i have to pause or unselect the object. this makes for very slow drawing, and i can't understand why this process would have been changed. also why can't we use our keys to flip between options within a tool. within the double line tool one could use the option and apple keys to flip between desired options. this is not possible within VW9 unless it is different keys? i suppose the only good thing about all this is while drafting you can almost feel like you are faster than your computer. on second thought i'd rather have the speed back than the ego trip. alistair