Luciole Design

I'm using a 455CA. Set page size to Super A1 (it will change to this even if you set it to Arch D) Like Katie says, make sure "One printer page" is selected. Workaround (VW 12.5.0) batch everything to PDF and print from Adobe Reader. Check your page setup is Arch D and make sure you check "Advanced" in the Print dialog box and check "Print as Image" otherwise nothing may happen.

Success! Re-downloaded the file and this time it worked. The bad file is larger: 324,012,009 bytes (for Mac) The good file is: 323,792,572 bytes, and has fewer items to install (71 vs. 89, if I remember right).

Success! Re-downloaded the file and this time it worked. The bad file is larger (?): 324,012,009 bytes (for Mac) The good file is: 323,792,572 bytes, and has fewer items to install (71 vs. 89, I think).

How much does the installation disk cost?

I DID check the application: VectorWorks 12.0.1 (53932) (Menu: VectorWorks:About VectorWorks) Same result clicking on VectorWorks application and choosing "Get Info".

My maximum wait time was 90 minutes. Anyone wait longer? FWIW, decompressing the .zip files in the updater takes less than 5 minutes.

I'm looking at the application. The folder is 12.5.0 since I duplicated my 12.0.1 folder and renamed it just to be safe.

The application is still 12.0.1. All of the temporary items are still in /Users/myname/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems. The "Parts" folder is empty, and there are no uncompressed files, i.e. only the two .zip files are in the folder. I would guess that the installer should move/delete the temp files once VW has been updated. It seems that it's not "installation completed", but "zip files copied" completed. I also tried cleaning all caches, repairing disk permissions, etc. None of this worked. No other programs were running, and the hard drive was set to never sleep. Internet connection is DSL, always on and working fine during install. I also tried unzipping the files and putting them in the parts folder, but the installer still crashes at the same point and never gets to where it can find the files and install them.

If you're on a Mac, you can copy the entire VW 12 folder, rename a copy VectorWorks 12.5 and only update that copy. This hopefully will keep the updater from eating VW12.0.1. (since my updater doesn't do anything but crash before installation, it's not likely to harm VW12.0.1 in any case)

More information: There is NO hard drive usage by the program after the crash, so it's really not doing anything (Mac OS - activity monitor program.). The evidence points to something NNA needs to fix, not the end users. Considering all the problems posted here, it's amazing that NNA can't duplicate the problem in house and FIX it.

You never see an error message. The window goes to 100% installed, then freezes. You see a spinning beach ball, forever - no "check for updates" window, no error message. The error messages are in Force Quit ("program not responding") and in the Console log. Mac 10.4.7, G5 dual - although from the above it looks pretty much universal

Is this "Yes" for update checking on all platforms? I can't find it, and once the installers crash, it's impossible to move the window.(OS = Mac 10.4). Besides, the system says "Program not responding" and my hard drive is not making any noise (like it would if it were writing files) If 12.5 is as buggy as the installer, I'd better stick to 12.0.1! Repeating the question above, was this actually tested on a Mac and PC before being put out for upload? Did this update work for anyone on a PPC Mac under OS 10.4?

Conclusion: the updater file has major problems. I disabled sleep and after 90 minutes, it was really and truly crashed. (Mac OS 10.4.7). Console log says: rm: /Users/myname/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/NNAInstaller12/ExpanderConfigMac.txt: No such file or directory rm: /Users/myname/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/NNAInstaller12/*.zip: No such file or directory rmdir: /Users/myname/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/NNAInstaller12: Directory not empty Checked for OK box, nothing (impossible to move window once updater crashes)

Thanks - I guess I'll find out for sure when I get VW12. I'll probably just keep using my plant symbols/worksheets from VW11.

Back to my $16 Logitech optical mouse...which is corded, by the way. I was more referring to Apple's price/feature ratio when I mentioned cordless (I don't like having to replace batteries to use my mouse0. I went to get one of these for a friend, and they might be $25 now. Still a lot less than Apple's mouse - whose buttons I found less than intuitive. In VW 11.5, Mac OS X, these work: Normal scroll ---> vertical scrolling Shift-scroll ----> sideways scrolling Option-scroll ---> zoom in/out

You can also send a .pdf along with the converted file, so he can see what your file is supposed to look like.

This might be obvious, but if you're on a Mac, sometimes VW saves the files into an unanticipated folder (instead of your working folder)during a "save as". When a file "disappears" I usually try to find it with Spotlight (Tiger) and often it turns up intact but somewhere unexpected. Your problem seems more complicated, but this is a quick and easy thing to try first.

I think that's a VectorWorks limitation in data fields - they truncate no matter what the column width. My older workaround was to separate any long comments into two fields, by category if possible. My current workaround is to use letter/number comments keyed to some text that I can add at the bottom of the worksheet. If there are a lot of notes, and they are boilerplate, I use a separate reusable worksheet that sits under the legend on the plan. Text entered directly into worksheets does not seem to have this limitation.

Anyone know if I can just ignore the plant palette stuff in Landmark 12 and use my existing worksheets, data and symbols? I've got everything organized into a plant legend worksheet that groups plants into categories, alphabetizes them and counts them. Since my system works, and I understand it, I don't want to re-invent the wheel. I also read that there may be an issue with sorting Landmark plants into plant types in a plant legend. T or F?

I have mine going from a router to a switch to a JetDirect box, and it works fine. I had to enter the printer's IP number in GIMP Print manually, though. In Tiger, GIMP is supposed to find the JetDirect automatically - maybe I just didn't give it enough time. (this is a number in the form of ###.###.###.###, where "###" = 0-255) I've been using this printer since it was new, since Mac OS 9 - so OS version should not matter.

Bravo for importing SketchUp! However, I'd like to go the other way, too - from VectorWorks to SketchUp, with something designed specifically for this (not DXF/DWG - see below). This would be useful when I get CAD information (surveys, architect's drawings...) that I want to use as a base in SketchUp, develop the design, then bring back into VectorWorks for construction drawings. Sometimes a client wants a 3D view of something done in VectorWorks. SketchUp is faster for 3D modeling than VectorWorks and its site location, animation and shadow mapping features are much easier to use (unless VW12 fixed them). My current workaround is to go through DWG/DXF, but for some reason there are gaps in line junctions that cause SketchUp not to fill as surfaces. So I spend a lot of time editing, so much that I've pretty much given up the process and have gone back to tracing bitmaps since this is faster. I suppose this would mean getting together with @Last to see which side would implement this feature - maybe this is more in their ballpark.

Make the snappable gray layers a toggle, so users can decide. I don't always want to snap to them. Being able to screen back bitmaps would be a great feature, too. I don't always want them to print at full color and I have to screen them back in Photoshop now if I want this effect.

I would like to have a find function for classes, though - showing or hiding classes according to a keyword would be nifty. Normally, there aren't nearly as many layers as classes, and I have to do a bit of scrolling to get to the classes I want. Once this is done, I can save the configuration, but sometimes I want to quickly tweak something but not make it permanent.

Yeah, this would save a lot of clicks. Maybe a set of icons in a toolbar?

Isn't that great? Apple finally made a mouse with the same functions as a Logitech $16.00 mouse. Too bad it costs $49.95 and isn't cordless. They really are cutting edge!