APE Design Ctr

Can anyone offer some experience with the difference in performance, and rendering speed by changing up to a better video card? Thanks

I cant figure out why a render in my design layer appears differently than if I create a viewport and place it on a sheet layer. Any ideas?

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Is anyone fortunate enough to own this monster? Can you give your opinion on the card, experience and if it has sped up your rendering times in VW? THanks

I think it will. thansk

Hi Ethan, to save you some time .. basically I have concluded that it is an OS X issue, based on geometry calculations, and NNA indicates that this problem should be solved with an upgrade to OS 10.4 Tiger. The update cant come any quicker for many of us on this board including myself.

I have a few viewports I want to have the same title text in some areas on all the same sheets. Can I set it up so that one change on one of the sheets changes the appropriate text?

I have tried that a million times, and still get the issues.

Wondering if I can change the visibilty of a symbol to semi-transparent (20% or so) to see whats behind the symbol. Can I do this without applying a different transparent texture?

Thank you.

Each time I use a symbol, it always asks if I want to use/replace existing class / texture. Can I change a setting so it always defaults to using the texture/class in the document?

I have noticed that when I am adding attached record information to the 2D component of a 3D symbol, most times the information does not show up in the OIP if I select the used symbol in the drawing. Also my records dont properly report. However, if I go into the symbol, draw a 2D line, exit the symbol, re-open the symbol, and remove the 2D line, then the record information shows up.

I am very interested in a CNC Plugin for VW.

Has anything been done in VW 11 for CNC Compatibility/Translation?

With all due respect, Pharr (and please dont take offence) my entire workplace revolves around dealing with these files, and frankly I am not impressed with VW speed performance. I specifically jumped from AutoCad with a 'leap of faith', and I am definatetly disappointed. The update couldnt come any quicker. I sincerely hope your predictions are right about OX 10.4

I dont seem to have much change on my machine.

I am in total agreeance with NNA providing some testing for machines / video cards. You will actually find that many other competitor's products do, in fact, complete testing on their machines vs the video cards. SolidWorks does, and I believe Discreet and AutoCad also do. Not a huge capital investment to produce these for your customers... Once again, please NNA, indicate to us if the problem is solved via the 10.4 Tiger Beta software!! Eddie

Anyone have any experience with using GPS co-ordinates and pluging them into VW for landscaping, or site dimensions?

Thanks, Paul. I would probably assume that you would soon be recieving OSX Tiger Beta software to test with VW11 far before it is actually released to the public. Can you please inform us in some way if 10.4 really does solve this issue, as it is a very important issue for most of us.

Thanks for your input Gabri

Here are the results of my test: VW11, Mac Dual G5 1.8G, 2G RAM Gforce FX-5200 (64 Megs), OS 10.3.5: Import: 8 sec Select: 18 sec Deselect: 17 sec Select all: 18 sec Deselect all: 18 Open GL: Low/Tex: .5 sec Low/Tex/Nurbs: .5 sec Med/Tex/Nurbs: .5 sec Hi/Tex/Nurbs: .5 sec VH/Tex/Nurbs: 1 sec Final RW: 5.5 sec PC 1.8 Intel P4, 700 RAM, Win XP, VW 10: Import: 7 sec Select: 1 sec Deselect: 1 sec Select all: 1 sec Deselect all: 1 sec Open GL: Low/Tex: <.5 sec Low/Tex/Nurbs: .5 sec Med/Tex/Nurbs: .5 sec Hi/Tex/Nurbs: .5 sec VH/Tex/Nurbs: .5 sec Final RW: 7 sec Now this is interesting: Rendering is faster on Mac, however selection of polygons is up to 18x Faster on old PC. This has to do with geometry calculations as the Colored Beachball spins as it is thinking. Import of the object is about the same speed in both systems. Is anyone else interested in giving this a shot, I would be happy to fire off the file to you. Thanks for all of your help.

Excellent, thanks for your input. You can ignore the email... thanks

I am looking to buy this plugin, Can I go back and forth between software packages easily? Does C4D retain existing textures I use in VW, or do I need to re-apply them? thanks

PS It would be really nice for any VW engineers to add any comments along the way here ...

Ionw, as you mentioned you are busy. Can I send you the same DXF file that I used for import on the opening statement of this thread? Take your time on this. 800K uncompressed, and I would be interested to see how quickly your machine selects all the polygons in the file... Thanks