Mike Finke

Well, that was unexpected. I tried using Publish (I had never used it before), and everything worked fine. Exporting as a PDF is working properly too. I'm afraid it's taunting me by working once I asked for help.

I've tried Export as PDF and Print to PDF, haven't tried Publish. I have tried rebooting my machine, no help.

I'm having an issue generating a PDF from a Sheet Layer. The image below shows what I see in Vectorworks (left) and the generated PDF (right). Any idea what I screwed up to make it do this? It does it for any Sheet Layer I attempt to export to PDF. For this project, most Sheets are 18x24, but even my one 24x36 exports with only parts of the Viewports exported. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I wish I could give you the answer to this problem. I'm having the same issue. I've had Vectorworks open in the background while working in another application and it crashes or it's open but I'm doing nothing and kaboom! I'm debating seeing if I can rollback this SP, I'm working on my summer intensive for my masters and don't have time to deal with this this week.

So I found an interesting (at least to me) wrinkle with this. In an effort to figure out what drivers I might not have updated, I pulled the laptop off the USB docking station. Once I did that I was able to successfully launch Vectorworks. Once I plugged the docking station with external monitor in, an error window for Cineware popped up (included below). The Bug Report file it referenced is also attached. Now to dive down that rabbit hole. _BugReport.txt

Running Vectorworks 2021 - SP3. I actually did a full reinstall after I starting having this problem. Whenever I click the Vectorworks icon, the splash screen opens, I see the message "Initializing Rendering System..." in the lower left hand corner and then everything goes away. I'm running on Windows 10, which is fully updated. This issue is only happening on my laptop (at school) and not on my desktop (at home). Any advice/suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.