JasonWD

I'm pretty sure it is the Design layer with all the viewports for projecting the elevations that is causing the slowdown. Because of the nature of the project it has expanded and expanded to the point where there are elevations and their related details all over the place, bounded by thick borders. I screengrabbed the setup from two zoom levels and mousedrew (like a 5 year old) the various elements... I suppose a question is - is there any way of auditing the file to see what is causing the slowdown? I'm probably going to have to go hard on it next week to deliver a schematic set from it and am a bit worried!

Hi All I might be making VW bite off more than it can chew, but maybe some advice is needed: I'm designing the schematic interior architecture of a 6 story building. All 2D Plans Interior sections and Elevations Details There are numerous classes retained from a half finished construction documentation set that need to be retained, as does the layout of the floors in their design layer. The plans are all working fine but when it comes to the elevations things slow down to a crawl. And I mean - 5-10 seconds between some actions. Elevations are projected from Design Layer Viewports, one clipped for each elevation, and a lot for the details. Is this something I should expect VW to do all in the same file or should I be organizing it differently? Machine specs: Windows 10 11th gen i7 11850H 32GB RAM RTX Quadro 3000 GPU (should be plenty!)

Awesome sauce Rick I'll have a go at that, when I get a break from manually typing stupid wall numbers!

Thanks Jim; just to follow up, the Canadian distributor managed to wangle me a 2015 licence until everyone else caught up, which thankfully they have now!

Our clients want us to add numbers for walls individually... ...we currently do it manually, which I find incredibly dull (obviously) and if you miss a wall or modify the plan then your whole numbering system goes out the window. Does anyone know of a tool, like a stamp tool, where you could add a prefix (for example GFW - for Ground Floor Wall), then it just incrementally increases the number with each placement? Attached is a screengrab example

Thanks Jim Can I use 2011 with my licence then?

Hi All I now have 2016 on my machines and the people I mainly deal with are still on 2010 (they only use VW in 2D so are slow to upgrade) Is there a way to save as 2010 from 2016; for instance I don't know if you can run an older version with a licence from the newer?

Did anyone figure out how to do this? We have a client that likes us to sequentially number every wall surface in the finishes plan, which becomes a nightmare when the design changes as you have to number every wall again.

Hi There V-people I have a particular problem where I have imported sketchup files (2D) for VW and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of lines that are on top of each other. Does anyone have a script/method to eradicate these pesky critters?

I am following this thread with interest. I am currently running VW2010 on a R-MBP running 10.8.5 and it is the most stable system I have ever run VW on. I also had to run VW in a virtual machine a few years ago, because we were running VW12 and I had a Mac that was not downgradeable to an OS that I could run VW on. It was a very frustrating process that makes one despondent about the software upgrade freight train that we are all on.

I'm now trying out VW2013 but, with respect to the display, it is exactly the same as 2010. No point in me upgrading until this is addressed.

I'm now using a Retina 15" with VW2010 using a utility called 'Pupil' http://pupil.io This allows you to run the display at anything up to the native 3840x2400 resolution and switch on the fly, At the moment I run it at 2880x1800 (whilst wearing glasses!) because anything higher just makes it incredibly difficult to see. It's great!

VW2010 Will only work on 10.6 or lower, attempting to run it on any more recent OS makes very very bad things happen, hence, if we need to buy _any_ new machines we will have to pay to upgrade all 7 seats in the studio. It really makes me feel like this upgrade business is just a way of creating cashflow.

Sounds like the way of the future Ian. The only reason we need to upgrade VW is because VW2010 won't even work on any new Mac.

Okay... so we've been using the hammer and slate method of annotation for years and I am getting into this database business... ... I can create keynotes and noticed that when you create the first keynote the Legend appears. If you delete the Legend HOW THE HELL DO YOU INSERT A NEW ONE?? I have tried copy/pasting one from another sheet, but that just crashes VW. Please help.