[VW won't clip surface]

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Have you tried doing a section of holes at a time. I was doing some fretwork and it took ages. It may help to do this in 3D using the sbtract solids.

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I did try it in sections, but as I continued to clip the additional sections, VW got slower and slower. As I neared the end, VW just couldn't do the job. In other words, as the clipped object got more and more complex, VW slowed down until it just could not handle the task anymore.

[VW hangs... Watching the spinning beachball]

This problem happens on both of my Macs. Usually it happens when I do an undo command, or I change view. I have done repair permissions and it made no difference. I'm convinced it's a redraw bug in VW.

[VW hangs... Watching the spinning beachball]

I have a G4 Mac running OSX 10.3.2 and VW 10.5.1. Hey what gives? I work along using VW and then suddenly every few minutes VW hangs for from a few seconds to a minute. Quitting and rebooting VW helps, but the hanging business will start again. I need to work, not watch the spinning berachball. Is there a fix for this problem?

[VW won't clip surface]

I have a G4 Mac running OSX 10.3.2 and VW 10.5.1. I'm trying to draw a piece of pegboard. I draw a 21-1/2" x31-1/2" rectangle, make a 21 x 31 grid of 1/4" dia. circles, and center the circle grid inside the rectangle. I ungroup the circle grid, select all the circles and the rectangle, then do a clip surface and all I get is spinning watch, then beachball. So is it true that this operation, which seems so simple to me, is just too complex for VW?

[Fillet & Trim Failure]

I tested the higher 2D resolution and the results were inconclusive. Sometimes the fillet command rounds all 4 corners, sometimes not.

[Fillet & Trim Failure]

VW 10.5.1 and Mac OS X 10.3.2. I'm been told to test with a higher 2D resolution. I' will report back when I have done that.

[Do you have a PowerBook G3 Bronze?]

I'm running OSX 10.3.2

[Fillet & Trim Failure]

Here's an example to demonstrate my problem: Open a new drawing, set the scale to 1" = 1", and draw a 4" x 1" rectangle. Select the Fillet tool, set the fillet radius to 1/2", click on the "fillet and trim mode" setting, and try either clicking an edge of the rectangle which should fillet all corners, or drag across the corners to fillet them one at a time. Most often I can only fillet 2 corners, rarely 3 corners, and almost never will it do 4 corners. If I add .001" to the height of the rectangle, it will fillet all 4 corners. Does anyone else consider this an issue?

[Do you have a PowerBook G3 Bronze?]

If so, please test if it will auto sleep after the minuets of inactivity as set in your energy saver when VW 10.5.1 is booted. Mine does not sleep.

[No Auto Sleep After 10.5.1 Update]

Richard,

I'm using VW 10.5.1 with OSX 10.3.2 only. Trash OS 9 a long time ago! I haven't heard anything further about the no sleep issue.

[No Auto Sleep After 10.5.1 Update]

Irving,

Your situation seems to me to be a hardware problem. Mine is definitely a conflict with VW 10.5.1 since we it is the only program that while running causes my PowerBook G3 Bronze not to auto sleep.

[No Auto Sleep After 10.5.1 Update]

Since update to VW 10.5.1, my PowerBook G3 Bronze will not auto sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity as I have set in my energy saver. This only happens when VW is running. If I quit VW the computer will sleep as expected. I tried turning off the VW auto save, but that made no difference. Any suggestions to fix this would be appreciated.

[What causes a solid subtraction to fail?]

Another long standing problem I have with VW is that complex solid subtractions fail. I cannot predict when it will happen. What I find is that sometime after I've created the solid subtraction, it all of a sudden is not the way I originally created it! Parts are missing! Anyone else experience this?

[What causes VW to slow down?]

In VW 10.5, and for that matter every previous version, it seems that when a drawing reaches a certain level of complexity, VW will occasionally hang... "stuck thinking". Most often I see this when I'm do an undo command. Beachball, beachball, (snore sound here) beachball.

[Organizing Layers and Sheets]

OK, so that's it for layers. How about organizing sheets? Anyway to do get them organized like can do with classes?

I make detailed drawings where I need to turn classes and layers off just so I can make sense of what's going on. Navigating to theses views can be really slow. Sheets help a lot, but I can have 30 plus sheets in some drawings, and that gets confusing too. It would be great if sheets could be placed in folders that then "pop-open" when you roll over the folders name in the sheets pop-up list in the lower tools section of the VW window.

[Organizing Layers and Sheets]

I'd appreciate it if someone could give me an answer on this.

[Organizing Layers and Sheets]

Is there a way to organize layers and sheets similar to the hierarchy organizing available with classes?

[VW 9.0.1 Problems]

Matthew,

Thanks for the suggestion.

[VW 9.0.1 Problems]

First off I need to say that overall I think VW 9 is a great program. Here are some problems I've encountered with the Mac version:

Keyboard Zooming - Using the spacebar+command key to zoom in, or the spacebar+command key+option key to zoom out, if you click too quickly, you lose the zoom tools.

Snap to Object Grabbing the Center Handle - With the eight handles preference on, trying to resize and snap an extrusion's edge to another object grabbing the center handle does not work. I see others have commented on this too. It's difficult to work around this so I hope it gets fixed soon.

Extrude Along Path - A great idea that's nearly useless. Try making a a length of link chain. Make the link from a circle for the shape and a rounded corner rectangle as the path. Duplicate the link 100 times and note the saved file size is over 200 megs! Try and render the drawing hidden line and it will not render.

[Render Textures with OpenGL?]

I can not get textures to render using Render OpenGL with that set to render textures. How do I make it work?

[Where are VW 9 Workspaces?]

VW 9 installs only the standard workspace. Where are the others that where included in previous versions. Also, where is the RenderWorks workspace that was installed in previous versions of RW?

[Multiple Extrude of 3D Polygons]

Imagine the possibilities if VectorWorks could make a multiple extrude of 3D polygons!

[hidden line rendering facets]

I assume by your request that you are exporting your rendered hidden line file as EPS and importing into an illustration program. I do this a lot and I agree that having VectorWorks hide the facet lines would be a huge time saver. Also, improving the accuracy of VectorWorks EPS export would speed up the clean up required in the illustration program.

[Renderworks..Saving an image]

Daniel, Thanks... I just tested it again on my Mac, and it works! I know the last time I tried, both VectorWorks Tech Support and I could not get it to work. I must have updated some part of my system so it now works. I found that exporting as a Photoshop file is a cleaner image than a JPEG.

[Renderworks..Saving an image]

If your having trouble achieving a resolution higher than 72 DPI using the "export image" command on a Mac, well that's because it's still a broken function. It was claimed to be fixed, but I guess no one really tested it. When I called to ask why I still couldn't get it to work, they were a bit surprised, but they did confirm it's still broken.