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    Problem quitting VW on NT4

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi

    recently the only way i can exit VW 8.5.1 ON NT4 is by ending task.

    If i choose file - quit the drawing window closes but the program will not. It freezes

    and the only way i can get rid of the program is by Task manager & end task.

    Has anyone gotten around this problem.

    System = VW 8,5.1 on Compaq with 64ram & nt4 ( sp 5 ).

    Any suggestions appreciated

    PAUL

    Font Manipulation

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi

    I need to take a block of text and squash it on the x axis.

    In other words asymmetrically scale it perhaps x = .4 & y=1

    Can this be done ?

    The application for this is some slanted signage in elevation etc.

    Any help appreciated

    PAUL

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    blank sheet printing errors

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    A g3 running VW 8 in our office when printing a drawing to A3 printer or plotting a page

    eg. print page 3 of 3 , when the plot is sending, the screen view zooms in and a thick black line appears. When this happens that sheet will print out blank.

    This problem crops up every couple of prints no matter what sheet size or plotter chosen.

    Any ideas

    HP 1220C Printer opinion

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I had posted some queries on this printer in bulletin board over tha lst few weeks and with some positive feedback along with research I bought this printer.

    I run it on a 200 pentium pro PC with VW 8.5.1

    and 64 mb ram.

    An A3 architectural site plan with quite a few symbols and trees etc ( approx 5mb plot size )

    prints in less than 5 minutes.

    The quality is excellent and to be honest on ordinary plain paper is 90% laser quality.

    Its quiet and fast and very, very crisp especially with line drawings.

    I wonder would a bullet board category on hardware reviews be useful as its very difficult to find reviews of say printers from real people who own one and use Vectorworks

    PAUL

    Purge complete folders

    in Wishlist - Feature and Content Requests

    Posted

    It would be great if in VW you could select a folder containing many VW files and run a purge command where each file is purged without being open individually.

    This would be most useful for archiving and quickly saving HD space on servers.

    This command exists in Microstation and is called " compress directories ".

    OS 9 upgrade hesitancy

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm running VW8.5.2 on G4 350 with OS 8.6

    I dont have many problems with VW now.

    Our office has just gotten a copy of OS 9.

    Should I upgrade? as I have searched the database for problems with OS 9 & VW and there are varying opinions.

    Am I asking for trouble or has patches been found since those os9 Q&A on BB pages 2-3.

    Thanks

    PAUL

    Purging groups of files

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I am currently trying to free up space on our server. ( all apple office )

    Like in microstation ( compress directory ) is it possible to have a folder with say 10 VW files and do a group purge where each file is purged without having to open each one and carry out the task.

    Any ideas appreciated !

    PAUL

    HP 1220C Deskjet

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks Greg

    Does the printers 8 ram seem to take all the print file leaving you to work away on your PC while the printing carries on in the background?

    My A3 drawings are typically about 2 - 5 mb in size.Are these file sizes similar to your own.

    Thanks

    PAUL

    Diel Graphsoft recommended printer???

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have a budget of ?600 to buy a printer.

    I run VW8.5.2 on Pentium Pro 200 PC with 64 ram.

    The printer is for architectural drawings and

    can be monocrome.

    However as VW print files are large I need this printer to have decent memory and possibly upgradeable with RAM.

    What in your opinion is out there for that money and will work fast with Vectorworks ???

    Paul

    VectorWorks Slow with Imported Bitmap Image

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Images can be slow in VW however a couple of ideas to try.

    Try to keep all images as jpeg's as this format is way smaller in size than any other.

    If its 3.8 as bmp it could be as small as .5 as a jpeg.

    Keep resolution as minimum as possible!

    If its a pict then " import pict as picture"

    seems to be quicker than " import image file "

    Regards

    PAUL

    Advice needed for printing solution

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I run vectorworks 8.5.1 on 200 pentium pro PC

    Printing from current version of VW is extremely slow and in-consistent.

    I need a solution as I have a decent workload of architectural drawings.

    Is fitting a network card in my printer or buying a new printer with one @ 10/100 speed a solution.

    The slow printing is a fundamentally serious problem with VW 8.5 and I am disappointed that a release is issued with such a fault

    Any advice on what is a common problem I would say ! would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    Error Tpe 2 with V 8.5.2

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I have a performa 6400/200 with 104 ram

    56000 assigned to vectorworks.

    With a drawing having a lot of symbols it is constantly crashing with errpor type 2

    why?

    I fixed it for a while when i installed upgrade onto 8.5.1

    Anyone any ideas?

    PAUL

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