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Normal memory usage is about 180 meg on this file and not 480 meg.

Hi folks! When I enter a solid subtraction to adjust f.ex. a hole diameter (an extruded circle) VW occupies more memory. When I exit the solid the memory is still occupied. Some of my parts are quite complicated and when doing these kind of operations VW can occupy as much as 2 gig or more! Then I restart the application and reload the file and it has gone back to a more normal memory usage (ca 480 meg.) Is this normal? Is this what is caled memory leakage? Greateful for an answer

Thanks Robert! I am a forum illiterate.

Bump?

I got a 2.0GHz Dual processor G5 Powermac with 2.5 gb ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and a WD raptor 74 drive. It is a very fast and responsive setup. If I bought one today I would go for the 2.7 GHz model.

When you say "recover as much as possible Layer by Layer" do you mean copy stuff on a layer in the old file and paste it on to a new layer in a new file?

If I edit any setting in the none class, VW freezes and I have to force quit. Is this normal?

The scrollwheel doesn't work in dialogboxes. Is there an option for this?

Well it seems I have to get autocad and the way I work with layers out of my head. Thanks for the very good advice, Katie, Islandmon and Alanmac (no need to apologise). Cheers

Im using a layer per part and a mechanical watch have loads of parts. This is the first big project on vectorworks and for the next project i'll change the way I do things slightly. Nothing in the file comes from autocad.

I decided to create different classes to manage 2D and 3D. I added two new classes "2D" and "Locus" then I renamed the "none" class that I used for everything before to "3D". When I hit the OK button VW freezes and I have to force-quit. ? Islandmoon I like the layerlinking feature to. I use it to make different assemblys of parts. Great for presentations and assembly drawings.

Ive been working some on autocad but abandoned the windows platform some years back. Layer stacking order is not important to me. (being a watchmaker, not an arcitect) its more important to quickly find a layer and when my current project counts approximately 120 layers it can be hard. I wanted to use the sub layers to store the 2D and the locus-cloud for a 3D part. (these are nice to have when doing annotation and exporting dxf etc.) I guess I should make up some classes for this but dont want to change in the middle of a project.

Hi people, Is there a way to create sublayers in VW? Is there a way to organise the layers in alphabetical order or do I have to do it manualy? Greatful for any answer on this.

Thats it! My layer options was set to "show/snap others". Thanks for the answer.

When I use the flyover tool on a model rendered in open gl, it re-renders the model every time. It didn't use to do this. Have I changed a setting by mistake? I can't find any setting for this. On single parts it's OK but when several parts are assembled as layerlinks on a layer its a pain.