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As a byword - Hello Pat Stanford, Thank you for the hint for the above revelation, as it was your post on the Techboard that sorted this issue out, and it was also spurred on to solve the above issue by a back issue of your www.podcad.tv podcasts. Kudos to you and thank you very much!

Sorry people. Blonde moment! What am I saying, I am blonde! Maybe we need an icon in the Sheet Layers window of the OIP above the 'Layer Colours' column so that it says "Hey, I'm here, click on me!" I thought it had been added in 2008! Do you think I could find it?! Thank goodness for the Techboard since I had given up on looking for a months ago. All Help had to say was "Click Colours". But what colours?! It didn't occur to me that the little column apparently doing nothing in the Viewport Layer window was my answer. A humbling experience to be sure. To recap, an added visual cue of an icon at the top of the Layer Colours row would be nice. Maybe this has been added in 2009. Thank you.

It can be time consuming when using the Eyedropper tool on Sheet Layer 3D elevation Viewport (eg. a North Elevation) to have to alter the 3D View back to what it was previously (to eg. South Elevation) If using the 'Other Properties' Viewport Attribute, it will change the 3D view. In summary, I would like to pick up all of the attributes of a 3D viewport without changing the 3D view. Thank you.

This would be great for say floor plans in black, and to quickly make other layers grayed (or any other colour) (like site vegetation for instance). Graying layers in the 'Layer Options' views is not as fine as printing a gray line. Also the layer goes transparent, and solid objects over one another become transparent. This may have been added in 2009. I hope so. Thank you.

Thank you Peter for getting back so soon. Yes setting the floor height manually, I have found the same, but it the ever increasing push towards intelligent objects and sophisticated modeling, I have chosen not to go back! My poor VW app gets pushed to the limit everyday!

Solution Found. After searching through the forums, I found this. I hope this helps. http://www.vectorwiki.org/index.php?title=Fixing_Stairs_with_Upper/Lower_Component_Problems Thank you Charles. Job well Done.

I am having the same trouble with the stairs on the upper layer. Really frustrating! I update one stair on the bottom layer, and the other stair on the upper layer disappears! Has anyone figured a solution to this? Also when I delete one dual layer linked stair, the other layer linked stairs on the same layer are deleted. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers.

Have we mentioned the Heliodon tool!? Sorry to say it to those outside the Great South Land, but from what I can tell Vectorworks Architect Australia and New Zealand is the best version on the planet, due to all of the great plug-ins Julian and his family have created! Also if I email him tech questions he gets back to me within a day without fail. I have no idea where he gets the time to program?! Julian Carr - VW guru and all round good guy!

Hi designflows. Did you sort your issue out? As I have had the same problem with VW 12.5.3 and Vista Ultimate SP1. The only work around is to run VW as an administrator, but then it forgets preferences and I can only open items through the open command (in contrast to double clicking on desktop). Best Regards.

Hi all, I have asked this in another related posting, but I thought it was important enough to have it's own. I cannot render (Hidden Line) section viewports in both the 12 & 12.5 versions of the Vectorworks Viewer. Also I cannot open Vectorworks Viewer 12.5 at the same time as having VW 12.5.3 open. Does Nemetschek have a policy on this? As I have mentioned in another topic. It would be great to be able to have Vectorworks and the viewer open at the same time to be able to render viewports & print files in the Viewer whilst working in Vectorworks. (For a little background info, I am working on a new project made up of around a dozen modelled buildings all referenced into a 3D model of the terrain.Even on an Intel Quad Core system, hidden line rendering elevations & sections take many hours.) Anyone else experienced similar issues with section viewports or having the Viewer open with VW? Thank you in advance.

Hi Mike, Thanks for that. And to the greater VW community. Maybe you can answer this Katie. It appears there is a problem with VW Viewer with section viewports. I have tried both with saving and without saving viewport cache, and still they do not render. Previously I have run Viewer 12 and was able to run this at the same time as VW 12.5.3, but not now with Viewer 12.5. This would help no end being able to do this. My quad core PC can render viewports or send files to print in the background in the viewer, whilst working away in VW. In Viewer 12.5, if I double click on a VW file, if it is open, VW won't open, even though it is set to the default program. And if I have VW open, I am not able to start Viewer 12.5. Should I be able to do this? Does Nemetschek have a policy on this? It would be a great time saver in this multiprocessor world. Especially as VW 12.5 only uses one processor for everything except Renderworks rendering. As I said before, I could have the Viewer working away on another processor. Especially time consuming tasks like sending files to print and viewport hidden line rendering. Thankyou in advance.

Hi, What about section viewports? On my system, the update icon is greyed out when I select a section viewport. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Apologies for taking so long to get back. Been very busy. We are using HP Designjet Printer Driver v6.03.00. I have done a full diagnostic and headclean on this printer. The problem has been happening on most of our PC's since upgrading to 12.5.1 I think. And depending on the PC, it will be better or worse, missing different lines in prints in varying quantities. As well as this, I have had a problem with lines disappearing when I zoom in and out.

With VW 12.5.1, when we print, vertical lines are dropping off the prints. I don't recall this happening in 12.5, or 11.5.1. This is making some of our prints un-issueable. Can anyone help me?

Replacing the plugins didi not help, but the 12.5.1 update did. Thanks for your help.

McLaugh, Thanks for your feedback. When you say reinstall, what do you mean? Do you mean reinstalling from the disk, or do you mean having the objects sent to you from your Vectorworks distributor, and put them in the plugins folder? Cheers.

I have had our national distributor (Julian Carr) email me the plugins required, and this hasn't fixed the problem. Not sure what to do now. Happens on different machines all running the same OS. And yes I have 3 of our offices serial numbers entered.

Hi Katie, We are using HP Designjet Printer Driver v6.03.00. Data File version 2.1 connected to our server running Microsoft Server 2003 . I think that I will re-install VW and see if that helps. One of my collegues who is working on a drawing I was recently working on commented this morning how my files when opened on his PC had the letter 'L' substituted when the letter 'D' had been on my PC. I am sure it was not due to a misused 'Find/Replace' command. Very odd.

I am on a PC running XP Pro SP2 with VW12.5. This slowing up issue has only been since upgrading to VW 12.5. There seems like there is a jam when any print sent to our HP Designjet 500. Vectorworks freezes, and the print goes through very slow. But if I force quit VW, the print speeds up, and prints at normal speed. At first it would happen if I did a batch print. Now it happens with every print sent to the HP 500, but not our other inkjet or our laser. Very frustrating. Adds much time to normally simple printing exercises.

According to the 'About Vectorworks', I have Fundamentals, Architect, and Renderworks installed. The problem seems to be entirely random throughout the office I work in. As an experienced VW user, I am pushed understaning what the problem is. The problem is only with this tool. I have no idea why.

I have uninstalled and re-installed VW and QT together. No Change. If any one has any ideas why this one tool won't work then please do, because I am fresh out of ideas - short of performing a clean install of the OS.

Just un-installed and re-installed Quicktime (QT v7.1) from the VW12.5 DVD and no change. Might have to do a total un-install and re-install of QT and VW at the same time.

Not that I am aware of. The only thing that I can think that it might be is a Quicktime conflict. This evening I will un-install QT and see if that helps, unless someone can suggest some other hint to solve this mystery.

I am having a problem with the framing member tool. I get an error saying "The framing Member Tool could not be selected. Make sure it is in your plugin's folder." I have checked and all three needed files are there. I have tried copying the files across from the machine that isn't having the problem. That didn't fix the problem. I have checked with Julian Carr (Australian VW Distributor and all round good guy and VW guru) and he isn't sure what the problem is at this time. I though Katie or some other guru from Nemetschek might be able to help. In our office we are running PC's. All using XP Pro SP2. Most have Quicktime 7.0.3 installed. Although mine has QT 7.1.3 installed. I have reinstalled 3 times on my machine and it doesn't seem to fix the problem. At the moment we have installed the 12.5 update on 3 PC's so far. Two have the problem. One doesn't. The one that doesn't is a newer PC with it's own internal DVD drive. The two older workstations have VW installed from an external Sony DVD drive. Of the two machines that have the problem one is using Quicktime 7.0.3 and the other 7.1.3. The newer machine has 7.0.3 installed. I look forward to some fine feedback. Cheers. PS When I go into the Workspace Editor, drag the framing tool icon out of my workspace, and try to re-insert it back into my workspace, the framing tool does not show up in any list of the tools. Somewhere along the line, the message isn't getting from the Plugins folder to the application front end. (ie there is a break down in between)

Will Nemetchek be doing a kind of comparison as to how fast, for example, VW 11.5 will run on one of the new Intel iMacs vs a G5 iMac? Or if VW 11 runs at all. I know that Apple's Pro apps won't be supported by Rosetta. Users will have to wait for an binary upgrade to be able to use them on Apple's Intel hardware. But if the chip is twice as fast, surely it won't be too much slower than current. Photoshop didn't seem to be going too slow in Steve's Macworld Keynote presentation. Also I have read that much of VW's code is exactly the same as Wintel versions so would that mean less of a speed hit under Rosetta for VW? VW, Office (occasionally), Adobe CS (even more rarely) are really the only big ticket apps I use, and since my equipment lease is up in a month, I am keen to jump on the Intel train.