B Cox

Why is support for Big Sur blocked? It essentially means anyone with a 6 year old computer cannot use Vectorworks. I was trying to do some remote work this morning on my secondary computer and realized that its impossible. Tons of intel mac hardware is still out there.

I have been having the same issue for the past year . I tried reinstalling windows, switching printers (Canon and HP) . Its not a PDF issue because it happens when i print direclty from VW. I think there is some problem with the way that vectorworks is talking to postscript. If you rasterize your PDF and then print the issue disappears.

I have been having this problem for the past year on multiple printers (HP and Canon) I tried fresh installing windows with new drivers and vwx and i still have this issue.

Hi, I have some simple 2D polyline objects in my design layer. When i have a rotated plan (90, 270, whatever) AND I am inside of a group. and I go to Rotate->flip horizontal I get unexpected results. My flip horizontal is indeed flipping the object horizontal, but over the world axis rather than the object axis. I'm running VW 2021 Sp4 on windows 10.

In regular 2D drafting. Section cut markers showing up flipped etc etc.

Intel i7 6700K 16 Gigs Ram RTX 3080 tons of ssd, right now os is on a samsung 970 EVO Windows 10 Issues have persisted from 2017-2020 Sp 6

This issue has existed for me since 2017. It's annoying and a useless convention. I wish VW would fix it.

I've run VW for 8 years both on windows and mac platforms. 2017 introduced a bunch of visual issues (markers showing up flipped, 0/0 visual bugs) etc. Since these issues persist across both OS and I have upgraded my GPU (from a GTX 970 to a RTX 3080) I'm really wondering what kind of setup should i have to have no visual bugs. Should I install studio drivers or do I have to buy a quadro card to have no graphics issues in VW? I'm currently running 2020 SP6.

@Peter Vandewalle I never import hatches when I import rhino or acad DWGs for this very reason! What a mess.

The purged objects was so far the best trick. I had 2200 coincident symbols!

I went through and i put everything into groups by geographic location in the file, it still is pretty slow. Because we are dealing with several different users inputs we also have several hundred classes. Harder to untangle that. I wish vectorworks had a visual tool for re-mapping classes. It would make dealing with autocad and rhino users much easier.

@Pat Stanford thanks--I wonder. Unfortunately other users of this file imported a bunch of dwgs from another autocad project. The result is many thousands of ungrouped objects at the design layer level.

Hi I'm wondering how I can make vectorworks run faster. I have run vectorworks for the past 8 years and I'm dealing with a file that is heavy, like 40 megs of almost all 2d linework, few bitmaps, some BIM objects like walls and windows. Nothing is textured. My PC normally runs VW just fine and snappy. I switched to best performance already. My computer is i7 6700k, 16 gigs of ram, SSD, GTX 970. I'm running 1080p screen. This file just drags everytime i do anything or zoom in or out. I've tried purging it already. I'm checking my activity monitor and it never peaks above 30% load on CPU, GPU, Ram or disk. It just seems like is vectorworks calculating the stacking order of all the vectors or something. Is there something I could do to make this faster?

sounds like the ODA library just cant handle common characters in file paths... I always use underscores in my file names and normally dont have problems exporting DWG..but exporting to a NAS device seems to have pushed it over the edge, probably because of the \\ in the file paths

I am also having issues with this error. I tried purging what I could (I am not going to purge coincident objects etc.) but it didn't solve anything. Edit: I did solve this. The issue is it fails when writing to a network attached storage drive. it works when saving to the local drive. I have a Synology based drive.