Hugo

I use VW in my iBook G4 which has a 14" LCD screen and I'm very pleased with it. Specially coming from a 15" CRT iMac. Although the iMac screen was very good, the LCD feels and looks much better, much easier on my eyes. Everything looks crisp. If you can, go for it! [ 02-21-2004, 02:28 PM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

Beaster, Thank you for your ideas, I'll have to try them. The thing is actually I'm working in drawings created by another person, so I'm not sure if enabling grid snap may confuse the things more. Maybe if I enable it anytime I move something it will snap to the grid and I will distort the whole thing more... But I'll try your suggestion when I start a brand new drawing from scratch. Thank you. Propstuff, Have you had this issue only with version 10.5.x or has it happened to you in earlier versions. This have been the first months for me using VW on a daily and intensive basis, so I've discovered this problem. I didn't notice this with VW 9.x but it may have been present too. Is there any preference I can adjust in order to gain precision? Thank you, Hugo [ 01-25-2004, 09:27 AM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

In the last months I've working all the week, all day long with VectorWorks 10.5.1 in a new job I got. We are making three houses and we use VW for drawing plans, elevations, sections and some 3D models. This has been my most "intensive" work with VW. I've been using it since the university and now that I'm already an architect it is my main tool. The thing is now that I'm doing serious work with it I need to draw with absolute precision. There are some issues we are having at the office (my boss and me, we both use VW 10.5.1 under Mac OS X 10.3.2) and I need some advice. In the university I didn't care too much, I drawed trusting in the smart cursor. When I extended a line and "center" appeared in the screen when getting to the center of a line, I was sure my line was going to join the other on it's center. Or when "point" appeared, the line was going to touch the other exactly in that point. But now I have found that many times this is not as precise as I want. A line that was supposed to join another in it's center, it's really not touching the other line. They are almost touching themselves, but if I zoom in I can see a noticeable difference. They are just milimeters, and if I print the drawing, it will look good anyway. But it is NOT exact. Other times I click on the polygon tool and start drawing besides another one. In some places, I want their vertex to be the same. So when "point" appears, I click hoping they will share that vertex. But when finished, if I zoom in I discover the vertex are not the same. The same has happened when dimensioning. Specially when using the chain dimension. I click on both caps of a wall, but the dimension measures slightly different. If I zoom, I can see the "point" where I clicked was not really the begining of the wall. It was just milimeters from it. Why is this happenning to me? This matches with the fact that I changed my old iMac G3 for an iBook G4 and that I also changed the Apple Pro Mouse for a Microsoft Wheel Optical Mouse. Could the mouse be the problem? I have noticed some odd behaviour in other apps too, like web browsers. Sometimes I click on a link and nothing happens and I have to click again. Or are this some known problems in 10.5.1? I'd like any opinions on this thing, or suggestions on how to draw more precisely. Thank you

Propstuff, THANK YOU very much for the plugin!!! It is EXACTLY what I was looking for... AWESOME!!! Hugo

Thank you Katie, for your almost instant reply! I'll try your suggestions and see which one is best for me. Thank you again, Hugo

I'm using VWA 10.5.1 under Mac OS X 10.3.2 and I have several paralell lines I would like to extend to a single perpendicular line. I use the Connect/Combine tool in order to extend each line, one by one. But I would like a faster way to do this. Is there any tool/way to extend all the lines with only one operation? It is very tedious to click on each line and go to the perpendicular and again and again and again... Thank you, Hugo

Hello, this is my contribution for making VW a better app... hehe I have found two bugs using VWA + RW in an iMac DV 400 with 768 Mb of RAM. 1) When accidentally I opened VW in my new iBook, a message appeared in the iMac telling me I couldn't use the serial number in two machines.OK. It asked me to save before quit, and I did so. The two files that were opened and supposedly saved at that tine got corrupted and turned into 0 Kb (they had 4 Mb of size before that). I lost them. I recreated the situation again and sometimes it happened, and others didn't. Very strange but DANGEROUS. 2) I created a custom workspace for myself and sometimes when switching from the single line tool to double line tool or the inverse, the single line tool button becomes gray and the line (of the button) disappears. Not a serious thing, but looks like a poor software error!!! That is it. I would also like to post a very big improvement for me since 10.5. VW has never again crashed to me, and I used to have frequent crashes before. Since 10.5, absolutely none. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Now I have sold my loyal iMac and I will do all my work in my new iBook G4, I hope the good behaviour will continue. Thank you, Hugo I forgot to post that I'm using Panther, now at 10.3.2 [ 12-17-2003, 09:59 PM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

I'm running Panther and VWA 10.5.1b in my iMac DV 400 with 768 mb of ram and everything runs great. Panther is faster than Jaguar and VW runs very smooth, I have had NO crashes. Very good. I also use Gimp print drivers in order to print large sizes in an Epson Stylus Color 1520 with no problems. Great thing! [ 12-07-2003, 10:34 AM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

To make the thing simple, I want to draw with some colors on the screen, and print with others. This others are not only black, I want some color hatches, so black and white only is not useful for me in this case. Any idea? I tried that thing of the workgroup but couldn't figure it out. It seems complex for what I need.

Is there a way I can assign colors to classes, and save that, and switch between "color sets"? What I want to do is work with a black background, with every class with a different color, but when printing I want to set the white background and most of the classes black and a few with color. Actually when I have to print I wait until the drawing is finished and then I go to the classes window and change all the colors to black, but this is very slow, and if I want to have a print preview in the middle I have to change all the colors in order to print and then again to continue working. I've tried with sheets but no success. Is there any way to do this? Thank you. Hugo VWA 10.5 Mac OS X 10.2.8 768 MB of ram

I know that, you are right. But I'm working together with other people and they have decided to draw the swing lines straight, not rounded. It is just an aesthetic consideration, just wanted to know if it was posible.

Katie, What I'm trying to do is having the swing line straight instead of round, in a top plan view. Thanks. Hugo

I need to change the door projection line from the standard round one to a straight 45? line. How can I do this? I can't find the option in the Object Info palette. VWA 10.1.2 Mac OS X 10.2.6 Thanks!

Any Mac user over there to share experience in this?

I'm using VW Architect 10.1.2 in Mac OS X 10.2.6 with all updates, latest Quicktime, etc. My computer is an iMac DV 400 Mhz, 768 MB of ram. I have discovered a problem that I didn't notices before, altough it's been present since 10.0.1 Working in my drawings, i go to the Objects palette, click on Door and then Door preferences. There I choose the width, and change the config between cased opening, swing simple or swing bipart. I press ok, and when I'm over a wall, I click at the insertion point, and I get the previous kind of door instead of the one I just chose! If I go to door preferences again, I see that the door config didn't change, and I try to change it again. I discovered that at the first try it doesn't change, I have to insist 2 or 3 times in order to get the change. Is this a bug or what? [ 07-13-2003, 05:50 PM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

I'm thinking on upgrading my iMac (a 400 mhz iMac DV with a 10 GB HD and 768 MB of RAM) to a newer Mac. I'm an architect who uses VectorWorks 10 for work, among with other apps like Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia FreeHand, Dreamweaver and Form Z. My iMac, although very loyal and capable of doing all what I need, is feeling a bit slow, specially when doing more than one thing at once. I'm using Mac OS X 10.2.6 and thanks to multitasking I can work in several things at the same time, but I want more speed. Looking at the eMac, it looks like a great thing. All in one, saving space. A 17 inch monitor capable of higher resolutions than my iMac. 1 Ghz Power PC G4 is doubtless much faster than my 400 Mhz G3. A bigger HD, and a 32 MB video card instead of my 8 MB. A 7200 rpm HD instead of my 5400 rpm's. Sounds very good. My doubt is if a 1 Ghz eMac will be enough for my needs or if definitely I should buy a PowerMac? I like to do lots of things and learn new apps and all that, but I do not plan to upgrade all the time. Just want a fast computer, I'll put more RAM onto it and start working. Don't have too much money to spend too. I'm tempted to go for the 1 Ghz eMac and add some 512 MB of RAM. Or should I wait a bit for new PowerMacs and maybe new eMacs with DDR RAM and all that? Are those things noticeable for working with VectorWorks and 3D? Anybody here using an eMac and have some opinions to share? Lots of thanks. Hugo Mujica, from Chile.

Katie: Thanks for answering! Most of the time I run VW 10.0.1 along with Mail, MSN Messenger and Safari (or IE before Safari appeared). Other times VW is the only running app. Almost never I run VW with Photoshop or Word. I think the crashes can happen randomly. What I forgot to mention is that evrytime it's going to crash, I know it will, because the program gets sudenly slow and the HD makes a noise (as if I was saving a file or something like that)

Just change the units and everything becomes normal... I suppoose this is a bug.

Sorry, I've been posting a lot in the last time, but I have had some problems. A week ago one of my drawings turned into a 0 kb file and I had to redraw almost everything. Now I'm backuping in a separate folder to prevent something like that again. Now I'm not happy because VW Architect 10.0.1 still crashes about three times a week. Of course it's the app I use the most so it's obvious I see more crashes than in others, but thius thing bothers me. VW is the only app that crashes constantly in my system. I also use Photoshop 7 and MS Office, along with Safari, Mail and iTunes and all of those apps never crash. This crashes happen at any time and generally I'm doing very easy tasks at that moment, like panning or zooming, or just drawing a line. It happens with any file open, not only with a special one. I'm getting a bit crazy and saving almost every minute, but I think something is wrong here. I erased and reformatted my HD about 1 month ago and everything has worked great except this random crashes. Otherwise VW runs fast and nice. I'm using an iMac DV 400 mhz with 768 MB of RAM, under Mac OS X 10.2.3 Here are the crash logs, thay may be useful to catch the problem, or not? ********** Date/Time: 2003-01-13 17:29:28 -0300 OS Version: 10.2.3 (Build 6G30) Host: Hugo.local. Command: VectorWorks PID: 374 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000050 Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x00f3f6dc in 0xf3f6dc #1 0x00f3fd4c in 0xf3fd4c #2 0x00f40358 in 0xf40358 #3 0x00f405c0 in 0xf405c0 #4 0x00f3f130 in 0xf3f130 #5 0x00f3f1b0 in 0xf3f1b0 #6 0x00da894c in 0xda894c #7 0x001cf440 in 0x1cf440 #8 0x001cf910 in 0x1cf910 #9 0x001ed4a8 in 0x1ed4a8 #10 0x001ee234 in 0x1ee234 #11 0x001fcde8 in 0x1fcde8 #12 0x001fd08c in 0x1fd08c #13 0x00463bc4 in 0x463bc4 #14 0x004681ac in 0x4681ac #15 0x00466628 in 0x466628 #16 0x00466440 in 0x466440 #17 0x004662f4 in 0x4662f4 #18 0x00b16098 in 0xb16098 #19 0x00b16ad4 in 0xb16ad4 #20 0x00b17734 in 0xb17734 #21 0x00b1f0b4 in 0xb1f0b4 #22 0x00b22368 in 0xb22368 #23 0x00b119f0 in 0xb119f0 #24 0x00b126f4 in 0xb126f4 #25 0x00b216f8 in 0xb216f8 #26 0x00b214d4 in 0xb214d4 #27 0x00b22904 in 0xb22904 #28 0x005a0374 in 0x5a0374 #29 0x0055d2b0 in 0x55d2b0 #30 0x00205a28 in 0x205a28 #31 0x0021c50c in 0x21c50c #32 0x0021d868 in 0x21d868 #33 0x0021d300 in 0x21d300 #34 0x00207ce8 in 0x207ce8 #35 0x0021ae3c in 0x21ae3c #36 0x0021abdc in 0x21abdc #37 0x00205c28 in 0x205c28 Thread 1: #0 0x90073c48 in mach_msg_trap #1 0x90005f90 in mach_msg #2 0x90148b10 in __CFRunLoopRun #3 0x90180fe4 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific #4 0x94d9c1c0 in _ZN10HALRunLoop9OwnThreadEPv #5 0x94d911b0 in _ZN9CAPThread5EntryEPS_ #6 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body Thread 2: #0 0x90073c48 in mach_msg_trap #1 0x90005f90 in mach_msg #2 0x9022a75c in SwitchContexts #3 0x90225008 in YieldToThread #4 0x90243300 in SetThreadState #5 0x9026d978 in SetThreadStateEndCritical #6 0x0023e078 in 0x23e078 #7 0x0023c914 in 0x23c914 #8 0x0023c810 in 0x23c810 #9 0x0023cf4c in 0x23cf4c #10 0x0023e3e4 in 0x23e3e4 #11 0x9023bdac in CooperativeThread #12 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body Thread 3: #0 0x90042688 in semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap #1 0x9003e8b4 in _pthread_cond_wait #2 0x90233384 in TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon #3 0x9023c170 in TimerThread #4 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body PPC Thread State: srr0: 0x00f3f6dc srr1: 0x0000d030 vrsave: 0x00000000 xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x00f3fd4c ctr: 0x00f3f1a0 mq: 0x00000000 r0: 0x00000044 r1: 0xbfffe830 r2: 0x01de2000 r3: 0x00000044 r4: 0x079262d8 r5: 0x07926408 r6: 0x00000130 r7: 0x00000003 r8: 0x03e9ddcc r9: 0x0420b053 r10: 0x0420b054 r11: 0xa0221734 r12: 0x01de2d78 r13: 0x00dcddfc r14: 0x00dcde04 r15: 0x01ce8814 r16: 0x00000003 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x0558fcc0 r19: 0x00000000 r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x0000000f r22: 0x0000000e r23: 0x0000000e r24: 0xbfffee88 r25: 0x01ce5464 r26: 0x079262f0 r27: 0x01bba6fc r28: 0x079262f0 r29: 0x0000001c r30: 0x07935ffc r31: 0x07926000 ********** Date/Time: 2003-01-18 21:17:19 -0300 OS Version: 10.2.3 (Build 6G30) Host: pc-204-50.san-francisco.pc.metropolis-inter.com Command: VectorWorks PID: 453 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x0000000c Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x00f3f6dc in 0xf3f6dc #1 0x00f3fd4c in 0xf3fd4c #2 0x00f40358 in 0xf40358 #3 0x00f405c0 in 0xf405c0 #4 0x00f3f130 in 0xf3f130 #5 0x00f3f1b0 in 0xf3f1b0 #6 0x00da894c in 0xda894c #7 0x001cf440 in 0x1cf440 #8 0x001cf910 in 0x1cf910 #9 0x001ed4a8 in 0x1ed4a8 #10 0x001ee234 in 0x1ee234 #11 0x001fcde8 in 0x1fcde8 #12 0x001fd08c in 0x1fd08c #13 0x00463bc4 in 0x463bc4 #14 0x004681ac in 0x4681ac #15 0x00466628 in 0x466628 #16 0x00466440 in 0x466440 #17 0x004662f4 in 0x4662f4 #18 0x00b16098 in 0xb16098 #19 0x00b16ad4 in 0xb16ad4 #20 0x00b17734 in 0xb17734 #21 0x00b1f0b4 in 0xb1f0b4 #22 0x00b22368 in 0xb22368 #23 0x00b21784 in 0xb21784 #24 0x00b1bf04 in 0xb1bf04 #25 0x00b1b9e4 in 0xb1b9e4 #26 0x00c41234 in 0xc41234 #27 0x00b1b158 in 0xb1b158 #28 0x00b1ab28 in 0xb1ab28 #29 0x00c3fd58 in 0xc3fd58 #30 0x00c3f954 in 0xc3f954 #31 0x00c3f8f8 in 0xc3f8f8 #32 0x00c43430 in 0xc43430 #33 0x003387e8 in 0x3387e8 #34 0x00204f64 in 0x204f64 #35 0x0020533c in 0x20533c #36 0x00230a34 in 0x230a34 #37 0x00205290 in 0x205290 #38 0x0021d69c in 0x21d69c #39 0x0021d2d8 in 0x21d2d8 #40 0x00207d24 in 0x207d24 #41 0x0021ae3c in 0x21ae3c #42 0x0021abdc in 0x21abdc #43 0x00205c28 in 0x205c28 Thread 1: #0 0x90073c48 in mach_msg_trap #1 0x90005f90 in mach_msg #2 0x90148b10 in __CFRunLoopRun #3 0x90180fe4 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific #4 0x94d9c1c0 in _ZN10HALRunLoop9OwnThreadEPv #5 0x94d911b0 in _ZN9CAPThread5EntryEPS_ #6 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body Thread 2: #0 0x90073c48 in mach_msg_trap #1 0x90005f90 in mach_msg #2 0x9022a75c in SwitchContexts #3 0x90225008 in YieldToThread #4 0x90243300 in SetThreadState #5 0x9026d978 in SetThreadStateEndCritical #6 0x0023e078 in 0x23e078 #7 0x0023c914 in 0x23c914 #8 0x0023c810 in 0x23c810 #9 0x0023cf4c in 0x23cf4c #10 0x0023e3e4 in 0x23e3e4 #11 0x9023bdac in CooperativeThread #12 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body Thread 3: #0 0x90042688 in semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap #1 0x9003e8b4 in _pthread_cond_wait #2 0x90233384 in TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon #3 0x9023c170 in TimerThread #4 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body PPC Thread State: srr0: 0x00f3f6dc srr1: 0x0000d030 vrsave: 0x00000000 xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x00f3fd4c ctr: 0x00f3f1a0 mq: 0x00000000 r0: 0x00000000 r1: 0xbfffe790 r2: 0x01de2000 r3: 0x00000000 r4: 0x0b50d278 r5: 0x0b50d3a8 r6: 0x00000130 r7: 0x00000003 r8: 0x03e9ebac r9: 0x041f6b23 r10: 0x041f6b24 r11: 0xa0221734 r12: 0x01de2d78 r13: 0x00dcddfc r14: 0x00dcde04 r15: 0x01ce8814 r16: 0x00000003 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x04e78d50 r19: 0x00000000 r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x0000000f r22: 0x0000000e r23: 0x0000000e r24: 0xbfffede8 r25: 0x01ce5464 r26: 0x0b50d290 r27: 0x01bba6fc r28: 0x0b50d290 r29: 0x0000001c r30: 0x0b51cffc r31: 0x0b50d000 ********** Date/Time: 2003-01-26 12:09:35 -0300 OS Version: 10.2.3 (Build 6G30) Host: pc-204-50.san-francisco.pc.metropolis-inter.com Command: VectorWorks PID: 401 Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x481400c1 Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x00dcc430 in 0xdcc430 #1 0x00a58418 in 0xa58418 #2 0x007ae994 in 0x7ae994 #3 0x00a6163c in 0xa6163c #4 0x00a62f0c in 0xa62f0c #5 0x00a63bdc in 0xa63bdc #6 0x00a63a28 in 0xa63a28 #7 0x00a01cec in 0xa01cec #8 0x00a6460c in 0xa6460c #9 0x00a01f00 in 0xa01f00 #10 0x004c2d78 in 0x4c2d78 #11 0x005c87f4 in 0x5c87f4 #12 0x005c8af4 in 0x5c8af4 #13 0x002acb14 in 0x2acb14 #14 0x002081c0 in 0x2081c0 #15 0x0021e47c in 0x21e47c #16 0x0021db60 in 0x21db60 #17 0x0021ae58 in 0x21ae58 #18 0x0021abdc in 0x21abdc #19 0x00205c28 in 0x205c28 Thread 1: #0 0x90073c48 in mach_msg_trap #1 0x90005f90 in mach_msg #2 0x90148b10 in __CFRunLoopRun #3 0x90180fe4 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific #4 0x94d9c1c0 in _ZN10HALRunLoop9OwnThreadEPv #5 0x94d911b0 in _ZN9CAPThread5EntryEPS_ #6 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body Thread 2: #0 0x90073c48 in mach_msg_trap #1 0x90005f90 in mach_msg #2 0x9022a75c in SwitchContexts #3 0x90225008 in YieldToThread #4 0x90243300 in SetThreadState #5 0x9026d978 in SetThreadStateEndCritical #6 0x0023e078 in 0x23e078 #7 0x0023c914 in 0x23c914 #8 0x0023c810 in 0x23c810 #9 0x0023cf4c in 0x23cf4c #10 0x0023e3e4 in 0x23e3e4 #11 0x9023bdac in CooperativeThread #12 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body Thread 3: #0 0x90042688 in semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap #1 0x9003e8b4 in _pthread_cond_wait #2 0x90233384 in TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon #3 0x9023c170 in TimerThread #4 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body PPC Thread State: srr0: 0x00dcc430 srr1: 0x0000d030 vrsave: 0x00000000 xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x007d2944 ctr: 0x00f3f110 mq: 0x00000000 r0: 0x007d2924 r1: 0xbffff460 r2: 0x01bb6000 r3: 0x04bb95b0 r4: 0x00000001 r5: 0x01de6c78 r6: 0x000000d1 r7: 0x00000001 r8: 0x04bb7bfc r9: 0x01c98c88 r10: 0x01c98c54 r11: 0x01c96c28 r12: 0x481400c1 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000 r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000 r20: 0xbffffea0 r21: 0xffffffff r22: 0xbffffc60 r23: 0x01ce1fa8 r24: 0x0003f919 r25: 0xbffffad6 r26: 0x01ce1fa0 r27: 0x04bb0710 r28: 0xbffff4f4 r29: 0x04bb95b0 r30: 0x04bb071a r31: 0x04bb7bf0

Katie: I have Energy Saver to never sleep, but I have selected to put the HD to sleep whenever posible. Anyway, I already rebuild my drawing over an older backup, but I'm afraid this may happen again.

CipesDesign Thanks for your input, but I already made a search on my HD and nothing appear. I even restarted, run Disk First Aid and repaired permissions, but my file remains in 0 kb. At least I have some previous backups and now I put VW to automatically backup in a separate folder (instead of autobackup over the same file). But makes me worry about what may happen in the future. Thanks anyway!

Last night I left my computer on while I went out, thinking I was going to work later, but when I came back I decided not to. I pressed command + q and Vectorworks (10.0.1) asked me to save all of the open documents (4). I said yes to each one , VW quit and then I shut down my iMac. Today when I try to open one the 4 files, I get a message telling me this: "This is an unrecognized file. It may be a VectorWorks file created by a newer vesrion of the application, it may be a very old MiniCAD file, it may have been created by another application, or it may have been corrupted by a hardware or system error." I went to the file and it's size is 0 KB!!!! Yesterday it was about 5 MB of size. How can this happen??? All my work of days was there. I haven't done nothing special. The file appears modified at 4:50 am, the same time as the other three files I saved when quitting VW. So the error must have happened then. But everything seem to be good. Is there any chance I can recover that file? I didn't backup yesterday, and it was a lot of work. This is a serious bug!!! I'm runing VW Architect 10.0.1 under Mac OS X 10.2.3 in a 400 mhz iMac DV, 768 mb of ram. Please help me!

I see my initial post has became a hot topic in the last days... Katie, after upgrading to 10.2.3 I can see a speed improvement and VW runs quite good on my iMac (400 mhz, 768 MB of ram). Anyway, VW 10.0.1 still uses most of my CPU resources when working or when idle. Can this cause a damage to my computer as time passes? I use VW almost daily, all the day.

I'm actually working on a 400 mhz iMac with 768 mb of ram and VW runs perfectly well. But I need some mobility and been thinking on upgrading to a new 800 mhz iBook, which has a 32 mb video card (Ati Radeon) instead of my modest 8 mb Ati Rage 128 pro. Also I think that an extra 400 mhz could be a nice thing. I can't afford a Powerbook G4, but I also do not need so much power, so I think the iBook can be a perfect choice. My only complain is that a 12.1" screen may be a bit small, but at 1024 x 768 I'll have the same workspace as in my actual iMac. Also, VW won't be the primary use of this iBook. And I can connect an external monitor some times. But I will be using it many times, and I wanted to have some feedback about this. I read some comments about poor Open GL support under Mac OS X for the previous Rage cards that equipped some iBooks. Has this been corrected with the actual Radeons? I have had no issues with my 8 mb Rage 128 Pro on my iMac, so I think I will be screaming with the 32 mb Radeon, or am I wrong? [ 12-25-2002, 12:13 PM: Message edited by: Hugo ]

... instead of a box resembling the shape? When I drag a group or polyline I only see an area equivalent to the object, but not the object. Is there any option to see what I'm dragging so I can draw more precisely? Thanks, Hugo