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Vectorworks 2010 is officially compatible with Windows 7. I have not had users with trouble running Vectorworks 2010 on Windows 8 as long as they have adequate hardware and current drivers.

At the bottom of the post window, if you click "Switch to full reply screen" you should then see the File Manager link below it, you can add images that way. Do other preferences save as expected after you alter them? Palettes, default workspace, things inside Tools > Options > Vectorworks Preferences?

Rolf, are you trying to use the "Cut 3D Section" command instead of a section viewport?

If thats the case and you're in a hurry, you can see what other formats sketchup is capable of importing and try those. I am not sure what SKP8 specifically can do, but generally CAD applications support 3DS and DWG.

Yes, it appears here the textures need to be image-based textures in order to be exported as images alongside the 3DS file.

So if you set it to "One Printer Page" and then print that way, when you come back to the page setup dialogue, it has reverted and does so every time?

Once you export to the older skp version, you should be able to open that older version in the latest versions of SketchUp, is that not the case for you?

Would the main point of this be so that editing the viewports attributes/settings was still possible, as opposed to a user simply going with the regular "Lock" command? If so, maybe a general "Lock Position" function for all objects, in addition to the regular "Lock" command might be useful.

Gotcha, checked again and looks like this has already been submitted as an issue. Apologies, I misunderstood your initial description. I don't see a definitive date for a fix, I will see if thats obtainable.

No, it just keeps the last setting that was used in my tests here. The same with the other various checkboxes in that dialogue, they remain at whatever setting they were last at when the print was performed.

ANYONE getting crashes like the above, especially within the last week, please send the crash logs to tech@vectorworks.net with the subject "Attn Jim" Engineering is asking for recent ones.

This restrictive limit is no longer in place for Vectorworks 2014. I forget when they increased it, perhaps around Vectorworks 2009?

With the SpacePilot, im not sure what results you'll get, the only device currently supported is the SpaceNavigator. On my fresh Win 8.1 install with the current Win8 drivers (3.17.7) I am able to use all axis without remapping in Walkthrough mode, and the expected flyover behavior works in regular isometric views. I tried to pull up the drivers for the SpacePilot, to see if it used simlar drivers (and thus, may behave the same as the SpaceNavigator) but they did not have a compatible version for Windows 8, which may very well be the problem in your specific case. http://www.3dconnexion.com/service/drivers.html

Yes, Convert to Generic Solids does remove the object's history and combines any contained geometry as well.

Nice one! Submitted.

The reason these aren't adding together is because the middle object is a 3D Polygon, which is technically flat in this case, but it is still considered by Vectorworks to be a 3D object. You will want to use all 2D geometry to create a flat profile. You can either draw them originally with the (normal)Polygon or other 2D tools, or select the 3D polygon and use Modify > Convert > Convert to Polygons on it. Also, make sure all objects you intend to add surfaces on have a solid fill. The center object had a fill of None.

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Correct, they both serve similar functions. Currently they don't really compete in functionality, but eventually they very well may.

Not yet, thats on the Nomad team's list however as one of the most requested abilities.

The key difference is mainly the markup capabilities which they keep adding as time goes by:

I have seen similar issues to this crop up recently and am tracking them now. Would you please send any example file where that occurs, along with this: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/627/DirectX+Diagnostics+and+System+Profiler to tech@vectorworks.net ? I'm gathering info from the various cases to see if there is something in common.

OpenCL: Currently not at all. GPUs are not accessed yet for any of the Hidden Line/Renderworks modes. Eventually I believe yes, but further in the future than 64bit and multithreading most likely. When/if it does, I recommend wearing ear protection because of how loud my singing and dancing will be. Ram limit: Yes. Vectorworks itself can use ~3.5GB to ~4GB of RAM maximum. Renderworks can take advantage of over 128GB of RAM technically, but currently everything else in the world (HD speed, CPU limits, Software limits) cant even get close to that. If you have 12-24GB of RAM, you most likely have more than enough. Personally I really would not bother with it. The integrated graphics will "work" but the experience, especially in anything 3D, would be slow and irritating. As of this post, the iMac with Nvidia graphics is the lowest end Apple product I would recommend for using Vectorworks. When it comes down to price, if Vectorworks is your bread and butter and you work primarily with OS X, then the extra cost of a $1500 iMac compared to a much less powerful $800 Mac Mini is totally worth it. If Vectorworks is something you do not use often, or is used as more of a hobby, then the Mac Mini would do the job in a cheaper manner, both in price and experience.

Im working on doing something exactly like that. So far the problem has been getting a script that can time it automatically or give some sort of "score" afterwards. Currently I have to time the operations manually which isn't great for a standardized test. The one that will be finished first is a Renderworks benchmark file with viewports set up a certain way so that the only variable is the users hardware. For that im not exactly sure how MUCH of an improvement there would be, it can be very file-dependant sometimes. If you can send me that import at tech@vectorworks.net i can check it on a few machines here and give you a much better idea of if the hardware upgrade is worth the cost or not.

Could you send in that file to tech@vectorworks.net please? I'll confirm and see if it started happening after of one of the SPs.

If you can post a VWX with that site model in it, I can take a look.