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I agree, as it is now seems to be the least problematic way. I see I can't choose a 2014 Lib as it says it is old. Would be nice if there could be an option to convert that whole Lib (For custom Libs), but not a big issue to spend much time on it. Btw. If I switch in the resource browser from File to VW Libraries, Finder Window jumps to the file location, not to the VW library path.

Yes, sounds logical. Why should you crop a screen view anyway.

Yes, that's the setting I missed Nevertheless there is at least a frame that shows me the view borders now. But I have to switch it explicitly on for camera view. (that I can "zoom to all" to get a full screen view). So I vote for an additional switch in the Tool Mode Bar Most elegant would be a grayed out surrounding like in Cinema and an auto zoom of the crop frame to (nearly) full window.

Great, thanks. But is this the feature that would otherwise allow me to view camera views cropped to the cameras viewing angle ? (Which I missed so far)

I understand that VW 2012 can't open objects created in VW 2015 with new features. But a Library with simple old wall styles or doors ? Couldn't older objects be converted on the fly when importing or at least a hint that the Library needs to be converted to VW XXXX ? What happens when I convert a normal 2014 file to 2015 ? F.e. I had problems with 2014 stairs where faces where flipped or missing, the german developers did a fix for the stair tool which should be included in VW 2015 Int. now. Will then my broken stairs be recreated by the new stair tool after file conversion ?

Yes, 64 bit and Cocoa (same palette windows), render setting for 3D views, stories without fake layers, non hierarchical classes setting in dropdowns, HTML 5 help (now I can even read it on 10.7.), curtain walls, .... This update solves 80% of my complaints that I had starting with VW 2014, at one time. Really Great !

Hi whashisface, I see your walls are overlapping. Isn't that a problem when calculating volumes and costs ?

I hit the ESC key until it stops Sometimes there is a lag or the key gets lost. It's difficult also when trying to rotate the perspektive. Most of the time the rerender starts before the model is rotated. And I don't like much the linear single core function in Apps. F.e. that you can't open anything else as long as a Dialog like Organization window is closed.

Thanks ! But I don't think that's a good idea. It's ok for delivered libraries but tedious for workspaces and a real update breaker if there are longterm projects. Why not a special *.vwl (VW Library) ending for Libraries and the ability to read but not convert them to a higher version number, as it is done with normal older files.

Interesting, what will happen in 2015 if I create custom 2014 libraries ?

I have the same issue with that strange frame hiding the geometry in the view window. (existing file from 2014) I also switched back to orthogonal view but would prefer perspektive mode if it works like in 2014. Anyway, that new setting for 3D windows is great.

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And I realized that way that there is an option to view alphabetically ordered text only.

If you move your cursor to the top of the screen, the menu bar should pop back down, there should be a blue icon at the top right to disable fullscreen mode. Does that button not appear, or when you click that, fullscreen does not disable? Seems to work with a smaller file now without problems. Maybe I had a strange combination between switching the 3 options to full screen by Icons or Text Menu. Or, as it needs some time to switch with large files, I didn't wait long enough.

I see. It looks tedious to even draw a single of those end caps. Also no rare situation.

I'm also interested. As far as I experienced you can't connect walls with custom end caps anymore. You have to assign the complete end cap to one wall and set the other walls to touch the cap. But I don't know why you need so many custom caps ? Better to show a screen shot. If you need standard end caps, these can be set in the wall preferences insertion options.

I don't know how many % of users have a subscription and that will work for VW in marketing means, but I think too that that's the way to go. I will go to subscription soon too. But I think it's good to have still the option to buy a release and maybe even decide not to upgrade. These users wouldn't buy VW at all if it is subscription only. And to make people update their VW there needs to be a new release with really lots of new features at one time. Subscription means that you decided to go VW for the next years. If that decision was made it's not so important to get a completely new feature rich release. A continuos development could also reduce the concentration of bugs which you experience with SP 0 releases. But maybe it is not so easy to serve both user groups.

That's the way OS X fullscreen mode works. No title bar, no dock. That's fine for Apps like Safari, iWork, etc. I don't use it either as I normally use, and switch between, a lot of Apps where I need to access the title bar very often. In VW I arrange my menu windows on screen and if I open a file I push the green button to scale the drawing window to jump in between the Menus. Don't know why but it makes me nervous if parts of the drawing are hidden behind Palettes. I'm looking forward to get a non palette one-window UI like in Cinema or Modo some times in the future Would be nice to change the width and proportion of Object Info, Navigation and Resource Browser in one go.

That blue button appears but it doesn't change anymore when I click on it. Same for the Window>Full Screen, I can toggle but no changes. I managed to come back some how by activating (the other) Space with the File, instead of the Space with the palettes, from the Spaces overview. But now I can't resize the view Window and palettes. Strange. But if that happens on old 10.7.5 only and current OS X works fine, I wouldn't invest much time in it.

Grossartig ! VW 2015 Awesome work ! My first issue, I can't switch back from full screen mode under OS X 10.7.5 (I am the one who uses spaces on OS X)

Isn't it september 16th now ? (Since 12 and a half hours here where I live) VW main site is still 2014 and VW2015 site is still the pre teaser. Is there a new release day ?

But then I would need a seperate render window and real cameras like in Cinema to save my images. On the other hand I really like the reduced material settings in VW. I use to set 80 % of my materials directly in VW.

So as a workaround you could create a wall with the Thickness of the real walls length and as long as the thickness Then it should slope well. A little tedious to have to do that for each wall component again I vote for Parasolid Modeling Core in Architectural elements. :grin:

I started with VW 2014. VW has some really nice features but I was disappointed that it felt a bit like a Win 3.1 app. I thought I read here that 64 bit won't come very soon. Therefor I'm really happy to hear that VW 2015 will be now 64 bit and rewritten in cocoa. That was my main complaint about VW. I should have no more RAM issues with larger projects and exports and more consistent UI windows. I think that was a lot of work and makes a good base for further refinements. So I hope I could get in the future a graphical UI refresh, 4 window views, Parasolid in all 3D geometry and BIM Tools, a two way Cinema connection and a losless direct BIM exchange between, at least all 3 packages, of the Nemetschek family. :-)

I like the idea of one (or more*) lines to define the elements and the position where to measure. F.e. for windows with different openings at the walls inside and outside. * to jump in depth when f.e. a wall has corners.