Christiaan

I also added: "Cancel your subscription for a year or more and you lose your discount. Or perhaps gradually lose your discount for every year you're not subscribed." On that later point, if you had subscribed consecutively for enough years to reach a discount, say 5-10 years, and then cancelled for some period, there could be a window within which if you resubscribe and make up for the lost time then you could regain your discount, or some level of it. Rather than starting from scratch.

I submitted one 😀

But Vectorworks could always break the industry mould and institute a transparent loyalty discount, based on how many consecutive years a licence has been annually paid.

As VSS buyers we already see ourselves as effectively paying a subscription, so whether it's subscription or VSS doesn't much matter to us. What matters is whether the cost, over say a 5-10 year period, remains competitive. Being on a subscription model does make it easier to switch to other subscription software, because you're not invested in a perpetual licence. Perhaps Vectorworks can offer discounts to users that switch from perpetual licences to subscription plans. Or simply a progressively lower subscription cost based on how long you've been an annually paying customer (whether perpetual or subscription). Do any other CAD vendors do this already?

The percentage who produce documentation in a secure environment, with no connection to the internet, must be infinitesimal. Especially compared to the potential market for a browser-based VW. But perhaps a way around this would be for VW to provide a self-hosted version that offices can run on computer or local server.

It should be off by default.

Just ignore red font and overwrite it.

When you run the installer, there's now an option to install the Viewer. Run the installer again and make sure this is unchecked amd you've put your serial number in. This could be made a lot clearer if the wording was changed from "Install Viewer" to "Install Vectorworks Viewer only". "Install Viewer" sounds far too much like something the user "should" be installing in their mind.

So have you all checked your VW customer portal? https://customers.vectorworks.net/dashboard

Just make sure you set the Story for each duplicate layer and the walls should come right. You don't need to set a Story Level. (Reflecting on this, I think when we duplicate a layer the Story setting should get carried over instead of being reset)

Something has changed at VW over the past few years. It feels like well-implemented new features are becoming the rule rather than the exception 👏🏼

I'm still unable to upvote people comments in my own threads @JuanP

Yeah like that.

Ability to create a watertight mesh around open or closed meshes, NURBS geometry, subdivision and point clouds.

Try as I might, it stubbornly refuses to render flying cars, The Fifth Element style