DIYguy

It's been pretty common to work on a file at the office and then take it home and continue working on it. Normally works fine but I do have more crashes at home. Last night I tried to work on a 46m file at home and was not able to accomplish one thing in 2 1/2 hours because of repeated crashes. When I looked at my system resources I noticed that out of 1,024 meg of RAM I only had 640 meg available, rest was tied up. When looking at memory usage I saw LOTS of files that started with mc*****. Between one to two weeks ago McAfee did one of it's automatic updates and installed a new version of Suites on my machine, which seems to be a HUGE resource hog. Is this just a coincidence or has anyone else run into problems having McAfee running while running VectorWorks? I tried to shut the program off but short of uninstall it doesn't seem to have an "off" switch. John

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All classes were turned on. I tried an experiment and just "grayed" the classes and then turned them back on and they disapeared again. When trying the gray to visible option it leaves a bonding box with the description "failed filet" in it's property name. What's strange is the parts aren't complicated. One is a rectangle with a solid subtraction cut into it and then four edges radiused with a filet. Similar with the other two except circles.

I have a 3d model I've been working on for quite a few hours. The last time I opened the file and worked on it I applied some fillets to the edges of several parts. To make it easier to work on the project each of the major parts has it's own class. When I turn the class off for each of the parts that has a fillet the part disapears. By disapear I mean if I turn visability back on the part is gone! I have tried about a dozen experiments and every time the parts are completly gone. This only happens to the parts with a fillet. The first time this happened I had to start from scratch and rebuild the parts, now I save each time if I turn it off so I can at least go back to the last save to recover. What's going on? Has anyone else ever encountered this?

I have what may or may not be a unique challenge as a cross between 3d modeling and architecture but I could use some help. Two years ago I bought a house that I have done several substantial additions to. I went through the ?as built? routine to model the existing house and all the additions in another CAD program. Last year I transitioned to VW 11 plus upgrades. No problem. I am now running VW12.0.1. Now the challenge. The next phase of construction includes a watergarden/pond with waterfall grotto, stream, brick patio and more. All the landscaping design to date has been 2d. The pond grotto includes concrete block work, footings, brick work that ties into the existing structure so I am now extruding the 2d designs into 3d to plan out final elevations, depths etc. CRASH. The program locked up 18 times in one day with the addition of the 3d pond and other 3d elements, created as symbols. Because each depth of the pond has a different shape I created a closed polygon of each level of the pond and then extruded it to the proper depth. Each layer was then stacked and I tried solid addition to create one solid shape. Partially successful, some shapes would add together, others would not, lots of crashes. I have used what I have so far to perform live sections to attempt to detail the relationship of elevations of pond, footings, block-work and existing structure. At first I though the crashes where from overheating the CPU or overloading the memory and was about to upgrade but did a search of the forum and found stronger machines crashing also so I believe I have bad modeling making the program very unhappy. It also will not do a final quality render, which it would before. Now for the questions: Are NURBS more effective in this application to create the curved shape, shell it and then use in renderings and sections? Is there a way to run diagnostics on the drawing to find ?bad? spots that should be redone or deleted? Any other similar crash problems that have been solved? Any additional imparting of wisdom to be shared?

ccroft wrote: "Personally I can't see a reason to texture a door differently than the case. The development team may see this the same as I do. If you have this need it would be a good idea to explain why and how you would use it in more detail....contrasting door and face-frame perhaps?" I have designed (not in CAD) and in the past built kitchens with mixed wood cabinet doors, IE: oak cabinet door frames with maple center panels. This is not uncommon. I am about to start designing another kitchen with this same need of raised panel cabinet doors with oak rail and stile and solid maple panels. In order to achieve this I assumed I would have to custom build each cabinet individually. To achieve the doors I've been experimenting with extruding profiles. A lot of work for each individual door size! To answer the question of texturing the doors differently than the case, in Euro construction (face-frameless case) it is not uncommon for the cases to be constructed from solid color Melamine and have different options for doors. Very time consuming to have to model each individual component separately to control the textures for rendering.

Yes, class is set to visible. Everything shows up in wireframe. Went and edited each class and set to solid fill with different fill colors for some to diferentiate the parts. Some parts show up and others disappear when rendered. I've tried to aply textures through RendorWorks but they don't show up either. In the export/import process each part came in as a symbol. I've tried editing the symbol but they still don't show when rendored. Not sure if there is a way to "repair" the parts individualy so the rendoring will recognize them.

I have a rather extensive collection of project designs and parts that have been modeled as solids in CadKey 19. I also have Key Creator, the latest generation of CadKey but the original work was created in version 19. I have assigned textures to a number of the finished projects and been able to render them just fine. Now that I?m converting to VectorWorks I want to be able to import these parts and projects so I can continue to utilize the work I?ve already done. I have tried several different options for exporting the projects out of CadKey, DWG, DXF, SAT and then importing the files into VectorWorks (11.0.0, just upgraded to 11.5.1) In CadKey each unique component is a separate layer which after export/import becomes converted to a class. I have tried editing the new class for solid fill, ?use at creation? etc but every time I try and render the project as in ?Unshaded Polygon? most of the drawing disappears. Is there any way of converting these files for continued use in VectorWorks or am I SOL for LOTS of previous drawings?