Hugo

Apart from that, why use Norton Personal Firewall since Mac OS X comes with a built in Firewall, that is very secure and more than enough? Norton will only use memory and CPU from your Mac. It is useless.

I have had some problems printing and the solution was to move Vectorwork's folder outside from the Applications folder. Weird but it worked.

Or exporting as an image file (JPG, PNG, TIFF, etc)

It seems a very slow task is coming...

Hello, I have a drawing with several layers, with lots of text callouts I typed in lowercase. Now I need to make all them UPPERCASE. How can I do this easily? Hugo

G-Pang, Stop joking. I can believe you spent money in three iMac G5s with a 20" screen and 2Gb of Ram, to leave them for the secretary... I have no iMac G5, "just" a 933 Mhz iBook G4, but I'm sure a G5 iMac is a great machine for VW. My iBook is fast enough for VW, it has only 933 Mhz. A 1,8 Ghz G5 iMac is more than twice faster! Not everybody here has money to throw away as you, and people asks for real advice, not simple comments thrown away. Of course a G5 iMac will not be as fast as the latest Powermac, but it is still a very fast machine.

I am creating a concave figure, creating one arc, offsetting it 200 centimeters to one side, and then joining the four vertex with lines. So I get four objects (the two arcs and two lines). I want to apply a filling to this figure. How can I do this? One way is to draw a filled polygon over it, following contour lines, but it is a very slow and unprecise thing. Is there a way to select the four elements, and then click somewhere to make them one object? So then I can select this object and modify its attributes via attributes palette? This way I coud get a faster and more exact and precise filling method (similar to Autocad's hatch feature). Any ideas? Thank you. [ 05-09-2005, 12:37 PM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

Josh, That was exactly what I was asking for. Thank you very much for your advice. It works perfect for what I need.

Hello. I have an oval, which I extruded with an angle, with the tappered extrude command. Now I want to make a real model for a presentation, and I need to make this object with paper. How can I unfold the 3d object, so I can print, cut and build it with paper? I need the faces of the tappered extrude. Any ideas?

I have discovered THIS solution in another post. IT WORKS! Dtheory posts: Hello All, I have noticed a curious phenomenon. I too had the problem refered to by Christiaan (above) >>3) all printers are missing from the VW print dialogue box so we can't print For some reason moving my Vectorworks folder out of the (default) "Applications" folder to another that I have created on my machine called "Applications (X)" brought the printers back... moved the folder back to "Applications", the printers disapeared again. Printers seem to be gone unless my vectorworks folder is in any folder OTHER than the default applications folder... (yes I have repaired permissions for my machine) Printers also are present when logged in as root though my normal day to day account is administrator... [ 04-20-2005, 11:30 AM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

dtheory, It works!!!!! GREAT!

Hello. I have a very big problem. I'm unable to print from VW 11.5 under Mac OS X 10.3 (10.3.8 and 10.3.9) to an Epson Stylus 1280 printer connected via USB. This happens in both a Powermac G4 400 mhz and an iBook G4. All other apps print successfully (Word, Preview, Firefox). Also tried with an Stylus 740 and same problem. Tried reinstalling printer, then VW and then the entire OS. No success. VW still doesn't want to print! Tries to create a printer but no success. HELP please! [ 04-20-2005, 10:37 AM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

Hello, I need to edit a swing bi part door; I want one of them to be wider than the other. How do I edit this? Thank you.

Larry, Will VectorWorks take advantage of that 64 bits, being a 32 bit application?

Hello. It seems that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is almost out, and I'm interested in upgrading my Mac. I want to know if VectorWorks has been tested with 10.4, and if there are any issues with the upgrade. I don't want to backup, install and find that VW doesn't run. I understand that Quicktime will be upgraded to version 7, and VW relies on Quicktime heavily, or am I wrong? Thank you. [ 03-30-2005, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

Considering VW can run on a G3 with only 128 Mb of RAM (although these are basic requirements), and that it only takes advantage on dual processors in the render department, and that it is a 32 bit and not a 64 bit app, a G4 iBook can handle Vectorworks flawlessly. But the extra screen in a Powerbook is cool, and a better video card is better for rendering. If you only plan to use 2D and modest 3D, an iBook is more than enough. Anyway, you will be using your laptop form more stuff apart from VW, aren't you? I insist, an iBook is great and will do the work without problems, but a Powerbook is better, and will be up to date for more time. But it cost a bit more too.

I use an iBook and it is a great laptop, I use VW on a daily basis. iBooks are fast enough, and have a great battery life. Anyway, I think the bigger screen and better resolutions you can get on the Powerbook (plus a faster computer overall) makes it a better computer for CAD drawing. If you can spend the money, go for a Powerbook. Hugo

Hi, I'm using Vectorworks 11.5. I have a site plan with lots of polylines representig hills and rivers, etc. I want to extract a part of the plan, a rectangular part. I draw a rectangle containing what I need. I want to cut that rectangular section and erase everything else, or copy that to a new file. One option is to trim all the lines and polylines that extend themselves outside the rectangle, but that is a neverending operation. I have tried both the trim option in the tool menu, and the clip tool, but both do not work, they split or erase some polylines while others not, some ones shrink themselves and others stay the same. How can I do this? I know Autocad has a feature where you extend a line and every line crossing this one gets trimmed. Something similar in VW? Please help me.

Delmer, Thank you very much! That is exactly what I was looking for!

Wow... You have a beast computer! I have only a 933 Mhz iBook G4 with just 640 Mb of RAM and 11.5 runs very fast. In fact I think it performs slightly better than 11.0.1. Maybe you have some fonts in conflict. Try deactivating by groups on Font Book (without deactivating essential Mac OS fonts, take a look at www. thexlab.com) I can't believe your computer runs slow! [ 03-17-2005, 11:59 AM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

I run Vectorworks 11.5 on an iBook G4 and it performs excellent. iBooks are fast and silent. And GREAT battery life. Be sure there is no Mac compatible software before deciding. [ 03-14-2005, 10:27 PM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

I have had a similar problem like the one you describe. My exported DWG files seemed to hang Autocad in a PC. But I discovered that if I pressed the ESC key in the PC, when it seemed to be hang, the file finally opened. I'm sure this is not the correct way it should work, I think VW outputs some complex data Autocad doesn't know how to handle very well. Hope it helps.

Hey, you should try this plugin! It is just what you need I think. For Mac: http://www.vectordepot.com/downloads/ExtendTo.sit For PC: http://www.vectordepot.com/downloads/ExtendTo.zip

Well, this means that any CAD application won't benefit from dual processors... So then, video ram, RAM and the processor speed are the most relevant things in order to have a speedy Vectorworks experience? How does the bus speed, the HD speed and others affect VW performance? Vectorworks uses or not the velocity engine from G4s and G5s? [ 11-18-2004, 11:50 AM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

Today I worked a bit faster, but have reached a point where updating the site model leaves VectorWorks with the spining beachball forever. All the other apps respond without problem. The file also hangs VW in a PC. I'm really not sure if this slowness is due to my iBook.