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Interesting. Currently I dod not have a problem with standard mouse usage and I am curious if I could get used to a vertical hand alignment. But if drag when moving isn't higher I could imagine ... What I can't imagine so far would be a trackball solution ....

Great, that is like my MadCatz. It is there, I forgot about too it as it also does not disturb .....

Basically I never ever had a problem with a mouse with a cable ... (otherwise it is not a Mouse - more a Mole ....) If it is wireless, I do not want to need to change batteries like with an old Apple Magic Mouse or Keyboard. If it has an USB cable option to load (or permanent connection offer) that is OK. If not, at least standard AA or AAA battery sizes for Eneloop rechargeable batteries .....

I also first thought about something from Logitech. Because of driver quality and features and hardware reliability I experienced in the past. I will look closer to your recommendation. But I also hope for some reasonable gaming mice options from Razor or such. BTW, when Microsoft dropped Mac Driver support (Until I was so happy with Microsoft Intelli Mouse Explorers for many years, totally reliable although only in the 30, later $15 price range) I bought some mice at that time, also a Logitech USB office mouse that had a "side scroll" scroll wheel feature - which made it totally unreliable for CAD MMB actions. Is your offer free of "side scroll" features ? (Watching the feature list it looks like it is ...)

I still use my 3D Connexion CADMouse, because of the extra separate middle mouse button (and as I have the 3DCon Driver installed anyways for Space Mouses) But the Mouse again, this was already the second RMA replacement and now after 4 years, again it has a corrupt left click. (Missing clicks and far worse, unwanted double clicks) I am not pleased that another mouse manufacturer also means the need for another driver suite but I wish for a new Mouse. My wishes : - reliable in drivers and hardware quality (basically like any other mouse beside CADMouse that I ever owned) - separate middle mouse button not mandatory, as long as the Scroll Wheel works as reliable and comfortable for both, scrolling AND MMB clicking - it should have an ergonomic form and buttons and be suitable for a larger hand (Logitech Mouse Man Wheel around 1998 was perfect, most current mice feel a bit too small for me .... often thumb buttons are too near for my thumb) - it should look Apple-like, cool, modern, reasonable colors or lack off, ... - it should not be from a too exotic manufacturer that goes bankrupt after a few years (my beloved MadCatz Ratz5 would be great if it would still have macOS drivers) - it should offer a a USB(C?) Cable, at least optionally beside Bluetooth - driver need to allow separate Settings specific for each App Basically it will be more about gaming than office mice .... mainly for CAD and 3D (not gaming)

You said Favorites he said Bookmarks SNCR 😅 I also have also bookmarked VW help in Safari (probably for VW 2019 or so, but I can edit the year ....) But if you do Bookmark all such things, your bookmarks may be so crowded and deeply hierarchic in Sub Folders that it might be even easier to start VW and open help from there .... (At least my Bookmark collection is that way) An alternative would be to create an Alias to VW's local help on desktop (?)

Generally I also always asked for a consolidation of Select/Move or any other Command that includes a Move option and the Move by Points Tool. I think the recommended way would be by using the "G" key. That should allow to reset the move at a certain point, before you enter the values from there. Problem is that I try to use "G" every few years again but so far never was able to make it do what I want or expect. Seems I am not compatible with that VW feature. My Keep It Stupid Simple approach in this case would be - move the points to black line - move again away to desired location .... This is also why in VW I really use Select/Drag Tool for 95% of movements. (Together with the "T" key to lock to a single Axis, if ever applicable) And I never ever used any Select/Drag option in any other CAD before or after VW. All had beautiful satisfying single do-it-all Move Tool. I think the Gold Standard for Move Tools goes to Microstation, same for Selections and Filtering and easiest use of Axis constraints. (On the 3D Mesh App side, it is clearly Modo !)

They recently changed the UI to make it similar to Unreal. And soon you get Lumen (realtime GI) in TM. You can already test the preview. I think TM is on a very good way. But they want money for TM now. In the past they gave away permanent licenses for TM and did not ask for a fee between TM main versions. No w they may ask for a price per year or version, which is similar to a service contract or nearly like a subscription. Beside that it seem to stay perpetual. Same for Unreal. Beside Game producers, for "linear" productions, like videos (!) or visualization stills, Unreal was free. No visualizers also have to pay. It is announced and said there will also be a minimum earning until the fees start, but so far no concrete data or numbers .... Interesting. Basically I preferred Enscape in the past and was so much waiting for a Mac version. But then they went chaos (group) and subscription. And I do not go any subscription ......

In VW 2024, for the first time, you can adjust the UI in 3 sizes. Will not change the Icons - but makes them bigger.

Somewhere on VW's website there was a feature comparison. There was a big cry when they lately excluded the Wall Tool. But I have seen a newsletter today where they recommend VW over SketchUp and Rhino : https://blog.vectorworks.net/why-you-should-choose-vectorworks-fundamentals-over-sketchup-and-rhino It has a table below that shows that C4D Export is still there ....

AFAIR I have Undo : 64 or more Backup : 8 or 16 Since I also switched to Actions instead of Time, my VW crashes went down significantly !

I like the new Icons much better. I also still need to get used to the new Icons as some changed a bit overall. But usually, beside watching, I recognize my Icons 50% by muscle memory. And I manually sort my Palettes and Menus in my custom Workspace. Mainly the Basic Palette which I have heavily customized in content and sorting order. I have docked it at the bottom under the view window as a long row. When I see the same Palette in the SPACEBAR HUD in standard portrait mode, I have to watch and search for Icons too 🙂

OK ..... So it looks like everyone really hates that new Sonoma feature and I am the only one profiting from such helpers ..... (I might getting too old now 🙂) I would agree when you all start your Feedback-Assistant App (*) and tell Tim Cook that this feature should be only optional and its activation located in the Accessibility Settings .... (*) At least you get a Feedback-Assistant App on your machine when you participate in macOS Public Betas ... It works a bit like crying your wishes into the woods - kind of a monolog .... But every now and then with a newer macOS version some of your complaints are solved. But I am not sure if that is correlated in any way ....

Lines vs open Polygons too ? (Just kidding) If it helps for reports and calculations, I would be OK with sorting VW Rectangles into a global (closed) Polyline scheme .... as long as all "Rectangle-features" are somehow mimicked be Edit Tools or similar. On the other hand, I often used and want, to keep the ability to magic-wand-select only (true) Rectangles vs other 2D geometry. So I do think that in the reports case, I would rather like to see that change/feature include into the features of Reports (?) For the initial Rectangle to Polygon Conversion task, I could live much easier with that, when Reshape Tool automatically destroys Rectangles, when you grab a Vertex (as long as there is no better solution). BTW, AFAIR, could even be that there is an old post somewhere in the Forum where I wished exactly for the same thing, that it would be more consistent if Reshape Tool does an Auto convert to Polyline. But only if needed as a Vertex is grabbed in Vertex Mode .... But that was surely before I learned to love VW Rectangles and their reliability ....

AFAIK there was already another Thread about this, which I also upvoted. Everything that does not necessarily needs an opened file should be also available from Start Screen without any file loaded.

If I remember correctly, since we got that setting for view mode when switching between 2D and 3D, I had ideas for improvements, but now I could live with it well. AFAIR it was a few VW versions later when VW started to ignore that settings in Edit Modes (at least Symbols ?) But AFAIK there was never an other setting option for Symbol editing. And if I got that correct, that 2D/3D switch definition setting is gone in VW 2024 (or hidden in another location ?) but it seems to still works reasonable for me in View Window. And I tried to open a Symbol, it opened in a 3D View but in Wireframe which is not my preferred setting. But after switching to Top Plan View and back to 3D View, it went to Shaded automatically. If this adapts to all of my (File migrated) Symbols after I enter Edit Mode in VW 2024, that is OK for me ....

I LIKE THAT INDICATOR ! AS I OFTEN ACCIDENTALLY PRESS CAPS LOCK WHEN I MEANT JUST SHIFT .... BTW, FOR ME THE ARROW IS ORANGE, AS IT USES THE HIGHLIGHT COLOR SETTINGS.

I do not really get why VW uses 80GB of RAM. I assume VW just forgets to free the RAM again after the files are saved and closed (?) For me it looks like batch convert opens, after each other, each file to convert and save. Maybe it opens more than a single file at once for multithreading but I never have seen more than 3 File Tabs when batch converting. I assume, currently VW grabs new RAM for each new file to convert but gives RAM back only after batch convert has finished all jobs. If this is the case, I think the only option to avoid that is to start batch convert with small parts from all files. I think this may be not comfortable but feasible - as I also assume that 1000+ files may not lay in a single file folder but in some sub folders (?)

Basically what I tried to say 🙂

Uhm, it makes me always nervous when I look at Airport closeups and see crossing runways or even taxiways crossing runways. Like Zurich Airport in Switzerland. Yours is a quite mild example, but still ... they could meet if things happen. Unfortunately no clue about your scaling problem as I am a georeference novice and do not know how to officially dimension a runway. I personally am not used to which georef system I have to choose from. So I realize that often the coordinates I read out of web maps will lead to an offset of the site in VW which I think is also a scaling/georef distortion standard thing. Once I got the correct position of my site, the Geoimage looked reasonable in scale .... But not sure if that has anything to do with your case.

For me the Rectangle Object is one of the greatest VW features. I think it is great that it tries to stay a Rectangle. For me it is reasonable to need to convert it first to be able to destroy it. (I think I have "Convert to Polygon" in my RMB "object mode" option menu) I always get crazy when in DWG Apps, a Rectangle is just a mere Polyline and so easily distorted accidentally. And a VW Rectangle has so many unique and cool features. (OIP Action Center radio buttons, length/width auto adjust, option to keep aspect ratio when scaling, ....)

Not sure where the original geometry is coming from. A generic Solid in VW, OK, so as said above. If it is still a VW Extrude, maybe I would like to keep it an Extrude with modeling history, so enter the Edit Mode, do the operation with the 2D Toolset in the Profile ....

I misunderstood the red line to be a Fillet. That would have made it possibly more difficult, at least in earlier PushPullTool versions (?) But would never come to the idea of moving the red marked Edge as indicated for Sketchup (?) (in any of my current or previous CAD Apps, but opposed to Sketchup as a Face Modeler, these were all Solid Modelers) As I would fear that the the extension for that curved Face would be extended by the linear Face instead that way. And I would fear that the snapping point - where to reposition that red edge would not fit. I would have immediately gone to the PushPullTool. I would select that little linear Face and PPT-pull it, over the related area, into the left area. Usually PPT action would extend the curved Face safely this way and reliably close that gap. And if there would really have been a fillet in that red edge, some of my CAD's would have needed to PushPull to the end of the Fillet first, before being able to again PushPull the little Face over the whole void in a second step to finally close that gap.

I think what a typical VW user would do would be : - Draw the larger (bounding box) Rectangle - draw the smaller Rectangle (for the void) on top of it - select both > Clip Surface - void Rectangle stays selected > delete This is your base 2D geometry Now either in 2D Mode : - setup and use (2D) Fillet Tool to round those 4 corners - Extrude - 3D Rotate for correct orientation Or the 3D way : (which saves modeling history) - directly Extrude that Polygon - (3D) Fillet Edge Tool for these 4 corners. ----------------------- Usually for Extrudes in VW it is better to do as much features in 2D as possible before extruding. As most 2D tools are superior than 3D Tools and for roundings it may be more reliable when further editing. On the other hand, the 3D Tools have a history for later changes. So a full 3D approach would be : - draw top view bounding Rectangle, directly extrude to bench height - either copy that cube for void Cube and PushPull or .... or ... to adapt dimensions - do a Solid Subtraction - Fillet Edge Tool for these 4 corners. This way you can always do changes later by double clicking the bench and enter or navigate between different features. Like the Solid Subtraction, editing base or cutting cube, adapting features like Fillets (which is a relatively new 3D comfort feature), and so on.

I am pretty sure that VW 2018 is no more supported on a Mac that runs macOS 13 or 14 Sonoma and very unlikely to run at all. Do you have access to any Mac with an old macOS from 2016-2020 where you could install your VW 2018 ?