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  1. That is my feeling too. That´s one of the reasons why we didn´t update to vw23.

    VW often freezes by simple tasks like moving 3d objects with the mouse by drag and release in 3d space, or selecting many objects.

    PushPullTool freezes often the whole program when you try to select a face within a complex model. Even faces are selected within symbols, that are inside hidden classes.

    For me it feels that SP4 brought more and other problems than SP3 had to offer...

    I am the only one in our office who is testing vw before we roll it out to all others and currently i think we will skip this version if SP5 is not a huge improvement.

  2. Exactly. Everyone has a workaround, but vectorworks has not improved the structuring of the layers for daily use for years. Instead, complex new features come along, but they also need one or two versions until they really work (groundsupport calculation in braceworks as an example). and small things like layer groups have been on the wish list of many users for many years. and these are certainly not only those who write in forums.
     

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  3. does anyone else have seen something similar before?

    i imported an ifc file from a client. quite heavy with 640mb. took about 30minutes. the building itself is an existing which is getting refurbed.

     

    after the import the geometry was far of the internal origin. it took me several attempts to place the user origin near the geometry.

    vectorworks sometimes suddenly blanks out the rulers, no geometry could be seen anymore and after selecting all on the active layer (wanted to zoom to activated objects) it crashes.

    well after i managed to see the imported geometry i switched to shaded. my file was still in mm units and i switched to m units.

    after that a prompt appears telling me the document is being updated. never seen this before. on the bottom right in the status line was written "geometry" and the green progress bar was running.

    but on my screen i could see that each part of the geometry was differing from a second before.

    after the process was done, which took about 6 minutes, my model looked different, but more complete but also things disappeared that are there in reality...

    what´s the thing that it a) takes so long to change units in a cad system and b) that geometry can differ with two different unit settings?

    i guess it relates to the distance to the internal origin, but how do i get an imported ifc file direct after import close to the user origin?

     

    see the screenshots attached, that show the difference in shaded view.

     

    first on is units set to millimeters

    second one is units set to meter

     

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  4. That´s just the same that i see in the office that i am working for.

    MacOS is much more responsive to changing in tasks between different programs, like the ones you are using.

    Windows (10 in our office) is much slower when it comes to special tasks like refreshing references (in vectorworks) or copy something huge from one app to another.

    I´d say - stay with MacOs .-)

  5. i have this question.

    i have counted many symbols (seats, tables) for an exhibition stand within a worksheet.

    is it possible to get the result from single cells into something like a datatag or similar that always displays the cell information inside the drawing?

     

    thx!

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