*Claes

Is there any news on this? taken from 'www.macfixit.com':A Canadian distributor of VectorWorks writes "Apple informed us earlier this week that they will be shipping OS 10.2 even though it includes several important bugs which makes VectorWorks incompatible. At this time, if you are an OS X user, we recommend you stay with OS 10.1.5 and run Vectorworks 9.5.2. Please keep an eye on Nemetschek's web page for announcements on the release of the 9.5.3 patch."

I guess by layout you mean the tool palette positions? The best way then would be to position them the way you want across the 2 monitors, and then choose 'edit the current workspace' and then save it with another name.

Thanks for your answer - layer linking I have used before, but the problem is I can't send these complete drawings to clients because the linked view takes to much time to render...so I put a bitmap of my rendering (screenshot) next to the top/plan view as a 'fake' linked layer. This doesn't help my biggest problem though- the vanishing point thing. It's only in some drawings, but I don't know what causes it. Normally you're able to render things in different layers at the same time- with shaded polygon, and a correct vanishing point...

Is this a completely known problem or am I missing something? I've got a lot of rendering problems with 9.01. In Open GL rendering only one layer will show. With a lot of fixtures, rendering is impossible in shaded polygon with multiple layers. To render some kind of 3D view, I can turn the light-fixtures class off. But then I'm still stuck with this weird vanishing-point problem! Has anyone experienced this ?!

I'm trying to get a rendering from a drawing. There's too much truss in it to render ('increase partition size' while the application uses 210 Mb) so I put that in another layer. In between the trusses there are towers (scaffolding). When I make a nice 3D view in orthogonal, it's ok. Align layer views works fine. But when I set the view to perspective, the two layers go to different vanishing-points. The 2 layers have the same Delta height and height (0), experimenting with that did not help. I replaced the venue dwg with a large flat extrude. Suggestions anyone? (I'm using v9.01)

Another one in favour of putting the gobo's where they belong, in the fixtures please! (and, indeed, in the object info palette of a spot, next to 'draw beam' maybe?)

I guess you could do it without Renderworks by tracing the image and then extruding it. Depends on the kind of picture if the result will be adequate.