angelo

As a die-hard user of VW v.8, I am still a little cautious to switch to v.9 in part because of all the discussion about the bugs and so forth. I checked out the demos at a recent conference and I didn't notice significant changes that would merit purchase of a v.9 upgrade based on how we use the software. Regardless, this news that the extend tool has been eliminated is pretty alarming. Like some of the other users, my co-workers and I use 'extend' and 'trim' a lot. So I wanted to let NNA know that there are more of us who would like these tools to come back if they are indeed gone. I also always wished there was capability to trim and extend with what is called a 'fence' in AutoCAD. That would increase speed ten-fold with these tools in particular. BRING BACK EXTEND!!

Thank you all for your replies and discussion. However, we typically render with formZ instead of Vectorworks. I was wondering whether 2-D drawings had ever sucked memory dry and what people did about that. Thanks for your input.

I see there has been discussion of VW being a memory hog in the PC platform. Has anybody had problems with VW 8.0.1 & 8.5.2 taking an enormous amount of memory, even more than it was allocated, on a Mac? We are using a PowerMac G3/266Mhz w/ Mac OS 9.0.4. Do polylines such as site contours dramatically affect memory usage and overall performance? What other things might be causing any memory issues?