Paul Suhler

Okay; thanks. FWIW, VectorWorks is now behaving itself, without even having had a reboot.

Thanks for the quick responses! Yeah, every couple of years I open the iMac up and vacuum it out. And I'd upgraded the PATA disk to 500 GB some time back. So it's maxed out. As far as VectorWorks, I appear to be out of luck. All of the installers and updaters I can find require Mac OS 9, which is no doubt what I was running back in 2002 or whenever. 10.5 doesn't know what to do with a .bin file, which is on the updater disks and also on the 9.5.3 page that rDesign cited above. I assume that the installers also installed a Mac OS X compatible version, which is what runs now. But there's no Mac OS X installer to be found. Any experience with the monthly subscription model for VectorWorks 2020? I don't use it often, so is it a problem to let it lapse and then restart periodically? Finally, for my current project I don't need anything nearly as sophisticated as VectorWorks. Can anyone recommend a less expensive program that will let me draw walls with doors and windows, add a roof, and print out plan views and elevations?

After not having used VectorWorks for twelve years or so, last night I created a new document with multiple layers, drew objects, saved it multiple times as I worked. So far so good. Now most of the time when I open that document or create a new empty one, the entire window is filled with a repeating pattern, which even appears inside the rulers. Sometimes the pattern is a square array of tiny dots (perhaps a single pixel), sometimes one with lines. This can make it impossible to discern objects in the window. The pattern can change from one time I open the document to the next. Since this appears with even a blank document and the pattern appears even inside the rulers, I'm inclined to suspect corruption of the application itself. Suggestions? System info below: VectorWorks 9.5.3 MacOS 10.5.8 iMac 1 GHz PowerPC G4 Thanks, Paul