Despite this maybe being my first post here, I've been a Vectorworks user since 2002. I've used every version since 9.5 and for me it's seemed to get faster or better every release until about 2017. Since then it's gotten significantly slower every year. 2019 is absolutely unusable.
While I came from the lighting industry, I now do product design for the residential A/V market. The only reason I've stuck with VW instead of switching to Solidworks is that VW is familiar and cheap, comparatively speaking. And until now, there hasn't been anything I couldn't do in VW, despite having some funky workflows compared to what it would be in SW.
FWIW, I'm running on a late 2013 mac pro with a 12 core xeon E5 and 64GB of ram. While this thing is ancient in modern technology terms, it should be fast enough to render the drawings I'm making in seconds. In VW 2019, something as simple as deselecting a viewport can cause a spinning wheel. An export of 3 pages of final shaded polygons will take 30-40 minutes with a relatively small object and a complex object just crashes the computer entirely.
Vectorworks, Please. Echoing what a whole bunch of other people here have repeated ad nauseam, make a functional system before you add any more features. You all need to regroup and figure this out. PLEASE.
