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Hi. I'm interested to know if VW12 is also faster in 2D redrawing. I'm having files that on my G5 DP 2,0 employ 18 sec. for total redrawing, and I would have an opinion if the graphic card can influence a lot... in this case would be disposed to spend monay to change my radeon 9600pro with a 9800xt or a x800.

No, it's a hatch. I mean it's damaged because if I try to edit the hatch, either form resource or from menu, it freezes Vectorworks. The object with associated this hatch are on more classes, and in the same class, there are object with other hatch or empty. It's not a good thing, but I didn't make it myself, and I prefer to maintain it as it is.

quote: If these are associative hatches you are talking about, can't you just delete the offending hatch definition? No, becouse I want the object with demaged hatch to hold hatch, another hatch but not to become emty. If simply remove hatch, all object taht was associated with the removed hatch will become empty. Now I'll try selection with negative fill (can be usefull for next time I've to clean a .DWG)

quote: Easiest way is to assign the Hatch to a Class then select the Class. Yes, if I made the drawing. But I need to select objects from a .DWG I didn't design myself, with approximatively 50-60 classes (was Autocad Layers). The problem is that's something wrong in some hatches, that freezes Vectorworks if I try to edit, and the objects with this kind of hatches are on more classes (and I won't change it). Anyway after some try I've found a workaround: - selected all not empty polygons and polylines - associated a record I've previously created - deleted the first of the damaged hatch - selected all empty object with associated record - give them a new fill and so on. Thanks anyway for your suggestion.

quote: mine for +$50 more than the new dual 2.3. Plus I got more front end bus speed than the dual 2.3. But you have water in your motherbord With only 2.5 years warranty

We are evaluting somthing similar job, but we have great difficult to manage large vectorialized map (.dwg files). Vectorworks result a pain in zoomming and scrollig on my G5 DP 2.3 1.5Gb ram(Autocad 2000 LT result much faster on Celeron 1.2 Ghz laptop). The entry thread I've opened on Video Card on Mac is started from this issue.

Is there a way to make a custom selection of objects with a particular hatch?

OK. I've done the try. Autocad 2000 LT is more then usable under VPC 7 (Win2000) on my G5, pan and zoom are quicker then VectorWorks on OS X, mostly with one ore two files. But if I try to work with all six files, Autocad become unstable (I got two crash), and much less responsive. Pan and zoom of smal portion are anyway faster then Vectorworks. But I've discoverd a workaround that seems to incres greatly VectorWorks redesign: add and use Autocad fonts (Simplex.ttf, Romans.ttf and txt.ttf)! They will be automaticly be choosen as equivalent autocad .shx replacement (you find them in windows font folder, if you have Autocad installed), and redrawing become twice as fast as previusly. And vectorworks file decrise in dimension too! They are not a beauty, but I think I can accept this compromise. ;-)

Unfortunatly I can't have other then this DWG that are governative files. On Autocad I can say I hate it, but on a old laptop (Celeron 1.2/512ram/ATI M6/Win98) and Autocad 2000LT, this file result far quicker then Vectorworks 10.5 or 11 on my G5 (fit to object will take aprox. 18 seconds and evry pan is a pain). Autocad on celeron have similar 1st redrawing times, but after that the drwing will pan and scroll much smoother. I think to try autocad on VPC and hope it will be not to much smoother then Vectorworks (I won't go back to Autocad, that I left more then ten years ago), but I must make the try.

Excuse me, the paragrphe cut: I'll sayng I'm thinking to try Autocad on VirtualPC

So you think a Radeon x800 (vs Radeon 9600) won't help much redrawing slowness of my 100Mb only 2D file (I composed 6 DWG to one Vectorworks file)? CPU is G5 2.3, so I think there's no sense talk to upgrade there. Even I hate it, I'm

I want to understand how much the presence of a more powerful video card then my Radeon 9600 (es. 9800 or a x800) can influence the performances of 2D redrawing with VectorWorks 10.5.1 on my G5 DP 2.3. The problem I've experience is with a particular job where I would have to manage more files of the regional technical map, that turn out particularly heavy (in DWG 4-5 Mb, in VectorWorks 25-30 Mb, and DXF text approximately 100 Mb one). And I will have to work with more than file to the time. I have already tried all software alternatives on Mac (Archicad/Plotmaker, DCAD, PowerCADD, TurboCADD, Highdesign), and however VectorWorks seems to be the best solution on Mac, but IMO, not enough. If it's worth the pain, I could change the card video, but I do not know how much this will affect the redrawing of 2D files with VectorWorks.