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Ross Harris

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  1. Although that achieves the result, the update has resolved one workaround (contour units) and added another with the steps to create a label less site model to use the 'add contours' button and tools. One takeaway is that it is less onerous that tricking the site model to stay in a different unit to the rest of the project units... but still - how is a new user supposed to work this out? Also, 'custom label placement' should be renamed to 'Auto contour placement' There's nothing custom about that preference in the dialog. The user should be able to turn this off and still be able to use the tools activated by the 'add contour labels' button in the OIP. So, for update 5 or VW 2025, can we please: Rename 'Custom Label Placement' to 'Auto label placement' Allow the 'add contour label' tools to be used when the above pref is off. Once that's done, we just need to property lines to be data taggable and it will be just about perfect. 😍
  2. What we need here is a pin object option, with lock remaining a full lock up - this would be useful across the board.
  3. We almost got there.... The ability to place contour labels under a poly line is fantastic... but... why oh why, can we not have an easy way to start with no contour labels and allow the polyline mode to place them where we want and these be the only contour labels on the site model? Am I missing something? For all the amazing capabilities in the site model that really stands VW apart, its things like this to document a 2d plan that completely let the whole show down. That and property line annotations - these should be data taggable. The big R gets this stuff right.. Generally, the tweaking to the site contour labelling in this update has been fantastic and has been wished for many times on this forum over the years... but it just needed to go the extra millimeter to give total control of labels to the user. 🥹 Please.. in Update 5 can we have the option to have no contour labels on the site model but still use the polyline mode to place them?
  4. @napwszzm rerun the updater and you should see update 4a - works a charm.
  5. NZ's a special place 😉 😁
  6. Sorry - should have mentioned, I've run repair on the updated install and the clean install with no change in result.
  7. @JuanP nothing - I double click and get the busy cursor for a couple of seconds and thats it. I've rebooted and also done a clean install of VW from the customer portal after doing the update from the updater. This is happening on my office and home PC's where 3.1 was working perfectly.
  8. I've installed the AU/NZ version of update 4 and it won't even launch..
  9. I prefer to do floor finish slabs on top of the structural slab so I can schedule/quantify all the floor finishes. Plus, all our floor finishes except polished slabs are inside walls, so is 'construction correct'.
  10. Twinmotion 100% for presentation exteriors. Enscape for something quick - mainly use this for interiors tho.
  11. Yep a totally reasonable question. All software has it's pros and cons... Now that we've got Revit (after an 8 year sabbatical) it gives a refreshing perspective give on things generally. Both do exceptional things. The unfortunate side effect of raising prices is that it becomes within distance of the competition, you naturally start looking at the alternatives and what they can offer.
  12. 100% agree on that! Great detective work on the AVX issue too.
  13. Go to a system builder for your new machine - the big box brands (dell. HP, etc) always scrimp on a system component somewhere to enhance their profit margin to the end users misfortune.. not to mention the insidious crapware they preload to 'assist'... You don't need a workstation spec machine - a hot gaming rig will do the business. I usually upspec as much as I can with the CPU and memory - hard drives and new graphics cards are easy to add in or swap later on for a bit more longevity.
  14. It might have the speed on paper, but it's the architecture of the components. A system from in 2009 is practically prehistoric compared to systems in the last 3-4 years. Bus speeds, memory bandwidth, memory type (DDR3 in your rig vs. DDR5), PCIe lanes are considerably faster on current cpus, which the software (windows, directx, drivers, vw) in 2024 is written to leverage. I had the same issue years ago with my old 2008 cheese grater Mac Pro - great machine, but the architecture just let it down and was put out to pasture in 2015. When looking at minimum system specs, you might need to consider the other things you'll be using, like chrome running lots of tabs, pdfs open in acrobat, outlook - known resource hogs. System specs only consider the software they represent, not real world use cases of a computer with multiple programs running - which they can't - no vendor can account for individuals computing workflows/habits.
  15. Your Xeons came out in Q1, 2009.. so pretty old tech. Maxon recommend a Kaby Lake minimum - that's a 2016 release Last ditch options are downloading the latest NVIDIA driver and running windows update to get most current win 10 version (updates directx at the same time) that will run on the pc. Failing that it's got to be compatibility issue with old hardware. You'd probably best to start thinking about an upgrade for VW 2024 and newer - the good news is you won't need dual CPU or Quadro to make VW fly - a current i7 14700k or a Ryzen 9 7900X3D with a rtx4070ti super (our two office rigs have i7 13700k/rtx4070 and i9 13900k/rtx4080 respectively) will make your current rig look like a bicycle being overtaken by a Veyron on the Autobarn - for less than matching your current config with today's products (dual Xeons, quadros,etc) - unless you need this config for another use, that is. My home home rig is a Ryzen 9 3900x/rtx3080ti (CPU is from 2019) and is no slouch using VW - no maxon plugin errors on any of these machines or our laptops.
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