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  1. I am drawing patent drawings. I drew a tank, then did an isometric rotation to show off the features. I tried to put text "Fig. 3" on the dwg, but the text is invisible.

    I tried layer plane and screen plane with the same result.

    Apparently, there is no text there (as opposed to being invisible), since I cannot select it for deletion.

    Would appreciate suggestions.

  2. vw2011 and Lion are PARTIALLY compatible, so far. Many of the icons in the tool sets have a big red X through them and they won't work. Those without the X will work.

    Error message says something about making sure the plugins are in the same folder as the app (they are, of course).

    Waiting for VW to issue a patch.

  3. I have VW08 and VW09 installed on my Mac. I haven't used VW08 for a long time, but keep it in case I have an old file that needs work.

    However, every time I click on a VW09 file, it tries to open it in VW08. It won't open it of course.

    So, I go to get info and pull down the App menu. It shows VW08 with default written by it and VW09.

    I select VW09 and click on the Convert All button.

    Bottom line is this does not work. The settings are not changed and the story repeats itself.

    The only way I can run a file in VW09 is to open VW09 first and then open the file from inside.

    Need some help.

  4. I have drawn a piece of pipe. !0.375" OD, 10.02" ID x 42" extrude.

    It looks awful. It is a octagon shaped pipe.

    I tried setting the preferences/3D/conversion res to "very high".

    Made no difference.

    I set the document Preferences/Resolution to Full resolution and the outputs to 300DPI. I know this is for printing, but thought I would try it anyway, since I can't get anything else to work.

    Ideas?

    VW09

    PM G5 Dual 2GHz

    3GB

  5. I use VW09 Mechanical on the Mac. I have been plagued for years by a problem I finally identified.

    Several years ago VW crashed my whole computer. Corrupted the file extensions so I could not read VW files. Screwed up other system functions.

    It took me ~ 6 months to get my computer back to normal. I had to delete my user profile and start a new one. Lost a lot of info.

    Now that OS 10.6.3 is out, I have had some system crashes as well. Corrupted the file extensions, but I was able to redo them with the Get Info commands. This time it didn't destroy my user profile (thanks Apple).

    I finally found out what is causing the crashes. Poor memory control. I watched the Activity Monitor as VW tried to convert a file to DWG. I started with 1GB of free memory. When it got down to 6MB the whole system crashed, not just VW. This is extremely poor memory management by VW.

    I now keep the Activity Monitor open all the time to gauge whether VW will process a memory intensive file or not.

    Since this is certainly what happened 2 years ago, VW doesn't seem to care. They add functions and raise the price, but don't get the basics right.

  6. I am designing a solar system to sit on a building. I have the system drawn and a picture of the building in my VW09 drawing.

    I cannot superimpose the DWG over the picture. One blanks the other. I have set all the class and layer options to show/snap/modify others, but to no avail.

    I made two layers and messed with the opacity settings. Nothing works.

    I don't know anything else to do.

  7. I just loaded my copy of VW09 and read in a microscope stage. VW09 wouldn't draw one of the plates! It gave an error message saying to draw it again. The plate is very complex and I don't want to have to do that. It also drew the holes with a very low resolution set of polygons.

    I think this thing was put out half-baked. :(

  8. Juan,

    What I didn't put in the post above is that I have been fighting this problem for a month. I called tech support and spent an hour with a tech, reloading, reentering (s/n),dumping files, etc., etc. Nothing worked, including a complete clean install on two different hard drives (internal and external).

    VW2008 works fine on my PowerMac G5 running Leopard.

    I am lost. I have many files transfered over the VW2008 and now I can't run them in 12.5.

  9. Katie,

    I am one of those for whom VW2008 will not start (invalid S/N bug). Since I can't click on "check for updates" button, how do I get this update and will it fix my bug?

    I have the 12/17/07 update, which does not fix the problem. Is this a different one?

    Is there any way to go into the terminal mode and get around the bug?

    ________________

    MBPro 2.33, Leopard

  10. I have a MacBook Pro 2.33GHz. I upgraded from VW12.5 to VW2008. Afterwards I could not start the program. The first screen appears and then a message - "No valid serial numbers have been found, please enter one now." I entered the correct number numerous times and it repeats the same message.

    I called VW and spent an hour working with the agent uninstalling pieces and reinstalling VW2008. Same response. After several rounds of that, I did a clean install of OS10.5, installed VW2008 and got the same message. Whenever I install VW2008, the first or second screen shows my proper serial number, then disappears quickly as the install continues.

    Obviously, VW2008 doesn't like Leopard or VV. Frankly, I don't think VW knows what the problem is or how to fix it. I hope OS10.5.2 update will fix it. It to would be nice to get a frank admission from VW that they don't have a fix for this.

    Now I find that VW12.5 is corrupted in Leopard. When I snap a line, it is invisible until I release and the line becomes visible. Same for dimensions - the construction line is invisible until I release, then the dimension shows. I see from other posts that the problem exists elsewhere on this discussion board.

    BTW, VW2008 works fine on my Power Mac G5.

  11. When I start VW2008 (OS10.4.11 or 10) a message comes up at the start saying there is no valid serial number, please enter. I enter a number and the same error screen returns. I am locked out of VW2008.

    I called tech support and we worked on it for over an hour, deleting this and that, rebooting, reloading VW, etc. Nothing worked.

    I loaded OS10.5 on an external drive, loaded VW2008 on it and it worked. It works on my older PMG5 running 10.4.10.

    I can't use 10.5 yet until IT tells me they have worked a network bug out.

    The odd thing is it worked on my current machine (MBPro.3.3 Intel) until I installed 10.4.11 update.

    I have done a complete reinstall of 10.4.10, but no luck.

    I am dead in the water. Any ideas?

    Thanks

  12. I am all for honesty. If IGES translation is flakey, then don't misrepresent it. I know NNA nor anyone else will tell the truth - "might export into IGES on a good day", "maybe 1 file out of 3"- "good luck".

    Try that promise with a car, or a TV, or a home furnace, or a wrist watch. To say "everybody is doing it" is not an excuse for misrepresentation.

    My problem is not about compatibility. VW wouldn't even go through the export/translation procedure on its own file!

    Am I wasting my money to buy VW12, which the tech support said had "fixed" the problem. Am I going to get the same results after spending hundreds more?

  13. When I tried to export to IGES fairly recently as a result of some contract work, I found that I could export one file to IGES and read it in again, but I could not export a second file.

    After going round and round with this file, I contacted NNA, sent them the file and was told that they could not export the file either, that the problem was a bug (that would never be fixed in 10.5) and that it was fixed in 12 (ie. spend more money to fix).

    I do only mechanical and optical instrument design and don't use all the fancy architectural features. In all my years of using VW products, they have not fixed the fundamentals, but keep adding gloss.

    For example, I can never trust the dimensions to snap to a corner of a rectangle (or center of a circle, etc.). It may and it may not. I have to inspect 50% of my dimension snaps to see if they are right. When I try to add or subtract 2D surfaces it may work and it may not. I have spent hour deconstructing things to do workarounds.

    When I use fillets to round a sharp corners, it may work and it may not. Sometimes three corners will do a fillet and one won't. I have had to make concave circle pieces to clip a corner because of this. The list goes on and on. Simple functionality is lousy with these products.

    BTW, after telling me there was an unfixable bug in my 10.5 version, they offered me a 12.5% discount off the upgrade to 12. Big deal. So much for customer service.

  14. Sorry, when the advertising states the features of a product as an enticement to buy, and you spend money in good faith to purchase the product (or a right to use the product), the functionality must be there.

    Granted, some features work poorly and require work- arounds, or are flakey, or are fixed in bug upgrades. I think this falls within the promise above. But when the feature does not work and is not corrected in a work-around or bug fix, I think the judge will rule in favor of the plaintiff.

  15. I received an email message from an NNA representative saying

    "This is a bug in this version of the program - which has been fixed in 12.

    Thanks for reporting this."

    My question is What did I pay for when I bought the program? IGES compatibility was guaranteed. I think I am due a big discount on an upgrade or a bug fix upgrade at this version.

  16. I have used VW since MiniCad 5 or so for mechanical design. I now use VW 10.5.1. Lately, I have the need to send VW dwgs to machine shops that use ProE or SolidWorks for CAD/CAM. I wrote to Nemetschek asking about file compatibility, but never received a reply.

    In order to test the readability of files exported to IGES, I saved two VW files in that format. One file exported fine and was readable by the other party, but the other file would not export. I get either no message or an error message saying VW could not convert the file.

    If I can't reliably get VW to do what it is supposed to, I will have to buy a PC and SolidWorks.

    [Confused]

  17. The corrupted video problem has been around since VW8.5 and maybe earlier. I have seen various video corruptions on a Mac 6100 with G3 card, a Beige G3 and a new Powerbook. Everyone points the finger at everyone else. I think it is a VW problem. It occurs across many different video cards, and did not exist before VW 8.0.

    [This message has been edited by cosmiccosmic (edited 01-29-2001).]

  18. One gripe I have with the present page control scheme is the lack of a fixed anchor for the page position when I expand the number from pages from 1 to 2 to 3, etc. When I draw mechanical diagrams, I usually draw something and then wish to draw another view, or some auxiliary part on another page. Everytime I add another page, the page location jumps and I have to recenter the page back to where it should be. This is a pain.

    I usually draw a short line from the top corner of the page boundary, then expand the page count, then drag the page corner back to my line. No fun.

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