LarryO

I had no issues opening either file on the WIN 11 platform with only 16GB RAM. And Bluebeam Revu for pdf viewing.

Has any one successfully used Microsoft Power Toys keyboard manager and shortcuts functionality with VW? Specifically I was attempting to map an alt character sequence to a keystroke to place a text character into a text dialogue. Such as <alt 0216> Ø by pressing <right shift><numpad 0> Initially I was able to get it to do so for a text box but Keyboard Manager/Shortcuts is failing to place the character into a callout dialogue. Seems to work ok for swapping physical keys like <left alt> and <left ctrl>.

I agree this statement is true +95% of the time. The times which I've had successful a cancelation is so few I do not recall the last one. The other aggravation I experience everyday since switching to the Windows version is after entering/changing data in the object info palette and concluding by hitting the enter key you also need to hit "Esc" before the shortcut keys respond. (or click in a safe area to move the cursor outside of the OI window.) <change data>,<enter (keypad)>,<Esc>,<X>,<choose next course of action>

Hmm, that is an interesting aspect of rendering priorities I had not been aware of beforehand. I was anticipating that I could get both hatch patterns to be visible at this location. I had placed the concrete hatch first anticipating it would be in the background vis a vis 2d hierarchy protocol and removed the background of the second hatch. I adjusted the placement as you suggested moving it 0.5 forward of the concrete hatch and for good luck removed the background of the concrete hatch, but ultimately was unable to get #1 viewport to render it as Hidden Line rendering. Increased smoothing to 20°. Only in wireframe was I able to see both patterns and while shaded rendering completed it too masked the concrete pattern with the other hatch instead of showing through. Shaded rendering does not seem to recognize alpha channels of hatches.

Thanks Pat, it appears that this issue is bigger than us. Given that this locks up when one wants to render the 2D fills I suspect one or both in combination, the fill pattern used for the wood and or the hatch used for the concrete. It may also be the way this render option is being implemented. There could be two functions chasing (processing) each other's data output.

I had just finished the update to 2026 31.3.1 (update 3.1) The repair procedure in the updater app found no files requiring repair. Interesting to note that there are two tea pots appearing when trying to update the viewport. I attempt to close the file without saving, one of the teapots disappears as VW attempts to cancel the rendering but the VW locks up before the second one has a chance to be removed. Back to TaskManager to kill VW.

Two teapots running in circles. 😞

9210 Constance House.vwx Here is the VVW2024 file again with the expected dashed hidden line background rendering set and the display 2d fills checked for all the applicable detail viewports. Give it a try with this version. I'm not getting any completion to updating even one detail viewport using VW2026 update 3.1 build 850644 Fortunately I am not at the final submission stage so for today I simply used shaded rendering.

Program cannot even terminate the renders to close the file. Seems to save ok but I have to kill the VWs to close the file window and open another file.

Take #7 for instance. set background render to dashed hidden line and check display 2D fills, then attempt to update the view port. While that is processing do the same for #3 and wait a minute before pressing update to see if #7 finishes quickly. #7 might partially regen but not come into focus. Which is the point at which I pressed update for #3. This is the memory use after more than 15 minutes while processing only 2 viewports.

I missed mentioning that upon import into VW2026 from VW2024 I had to reset all the background rendering for details 3 through 12 to dashed hidden line and tick the display 2d fills box. And change #2 to shaded. While #2 renders quick enough, trying to update just one of the dashed hidden line renders with 2d fills on is not getting to completion after more than 15 minutes. It is looking like I have to use wire frame and hope the reviewers do not get too confused by all the lines that shouldn't be there.

HP Z4 with Intel Xeon W-2123 @ 3.5GHz with 16 GB RAM NVIDIA Quadro P2000 5GB VRAM Dedicated

I've created this page in VW2024 and thought if I tried to do the export in VW2026 it might export to pdf in a reasonable time frame but no such luck. Both versions are running at over 30 minutes without producing any output. page E2 9210 Constance House.vwx

It will likely be related to a fastener such as a bolt or screw. They can be set to automatically adjust to a standard length or manually set lengths. Imperial bolts for instance will want to be 25.4 mm

You are going to have to focus on the tool's preferences which are likely stored in an attached data resource. Perhaps it is possible to pre-set a couple of styles (if they don't already exist in the drawing file), then swap the names in and out of a "style field" in that resource. Assuming a style field exists. Data Tag Style changes might just be an embedded procedure that changes all the data fields and is only accessible when the Data Tag Preferences window is active.