[Hardware for VW]

You will notice more difference if you have a 7200 rpm hard drive.

You will also have a problem finding the 4gig chip, the MBP will only address 6 gig of ram

[Extrude along path]

Have you tried using multiple extrude?

[How to Hide or Delete ALL 2D Loci]

Just deselect Snap to loci in VW Preferences>Edit

[Has anyone been able to get an evaluation copy of VW2009?]

I believe they are now available, as E series is now shipping

[Vectorworks permanently zooming out]

Have you cleaned your mouse lately?

[Vectorworks 2009 Installation, Problem with Startup On MAC 10.4.11]

NNA have delayed the release of the education version, probably due to this problem.

[Arc Polyline Disaster]

If you place an additional vertex at the end of the 80m arc, it will no longer experience changing behaviour.

[How do I model an eyebrow dormer?]

Hi

Best route is to use bi-rail lofting.

First create a polygon to represent the front curvature, and convert to nurbs

Second create a line and convert to nurbs and move to the right height/angle lets say 2000mm in y and z axis

Third Create a rectangle 2000mm x 100mm to represent thickness, convert to nurbs

Choose Loft tool from 3d palette and choose bi-rail loft

Select first the Poly nurbs,then the line nurbs and finally the rectangle nurbs.

You can then drop this into your roof.

[PDF Plugin Problem]

There was a long discussion about this recently:

http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=110520&fpart=1

Check this out

[MacBook Pro/VW2009/Track Pad Problems]

Have you seen this:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/03/apple_investigating_problems_with_macbook_pros_glass_trackpad.html

It could be either a mechanical or software issue.

Watch out for updates

[AutoHotkey in Vectorworks2009]

Just do it in the workspace editor

[b/w document still in colour]

The Document preference>Black and White only should do the trick.

It works for lines, fills and patterns

[Printing 3d model---impossible?]

My Mac has 1 GB of memory, which I'm guessing is not enough. How much memory is needed on the computer and/or plotter in order to print a file like mine?

You dont say what computer you are using.

If you save it as a pdf, which is how macs print anyway, might be the route forward.

You will then have a file that does not need rendering prior to printing.

I was producing stage sets on VW11.5 I was rendering and animating 40mx30m stages with 1000seats on a g4 powerbook with 1g of ram if I remember correctly.

[Quicktime substitute]

Just tell your admins to install Quicktime!!

[VWA 2009 ON Power Mac G5]

How much RAM are you using?

What video card are you using?

Although the video requirements are not very high, its best to have at least 256MB VRAM.

Here are the system recommendations for 2009:

http://www.nemetschek.net/designer/sysReq.php

Do you have the same behaviour in a previous version?

HTH

[Beyond Renderworks]

For stage visualisation, ESP Vision is hard to beat.

There is a VW plug-in and as with Artlantis, changes made in VW can be updated in the ESP/Artlantis files without having to make any other changes, lighting and rendering settings etc stay the same.

Artlantis is a stand alone programme, but requires 3D files to input prior to rendering and animating etc.

http://artlantis.com/

ESP Vision is also a stand alone programme that also allows programming of lighting desks, lighting plots, and anything else happening in a stage environment.

http://www.espvision.com/

Also of note the Opening and Closing Ceremony at the Beijing 2008 Olympics was modeled in VectorWorks and visualised in ESP Vision

http://www.espvision.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1224716820&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&

[VECTORWORKS 2009 vs REVIT 2009]

I would have thought that this would be information that could be provided as a comparison chart by Nemetschek staff. Their sales and technical team should be able to provide you with the necessary information, especially as you know Revit very well.

Try them on Monday morning.

[Electrical "phase" symbol]

How do you type a phase symbol, e.g. a "?" in 2008?

Haven't you done it yourself?

[What is the speed difference between CPU & GPU ?]

These guys at Astra at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have been getting their heads round GPU processing:

http://fastra.ua.ac.be/en/index.html

They have produced an 8 parallel graphics card supercomputer.

Is this the future??

By the way this has already been posted

[Pixelated Printing]

You need 12.5.3 on 10.5

[General rendering speeds]

The house file is 106MB and I was rendering a 20 second quicktime movie of it rotating, in Fast RW w/ Shadows. It took 2 hours plus.

106MB for a house is very large, are you using symbols etc.

Have you tried Artlantis Studio?

[Removing Educational Watermark from Pro Drawing]

"but it looks like it is a virus that can infect other non ED drawings but making the mistake of importing something FROM an Ed version."

Its a very simple process, every document that is produced in the Educational version has a watermark.

If any part of that document is copied and pasted into a non-educational file it will take the watermark with it.

So if you open an educational document on your office machine it will have the watermark, it is not a virus but a simple device to keep the different versions distinct.

[Quicktime substitute]

Whats your system and profile?

My understanding that even windows has quicktime enabled.

What you are describing is a function of the programme, not of quicktime. You need Artlantis Studio to do this most efficiently and quickly.

HTH

[Uninstalling]

You can run several versions of the programme, without uninstalling.

[Problem scaling multiple walls]

Have you tried the 2d reshape mode using the selection box?

Select the move handles tool then draw a selection box and move the walls the desired amount.

HTH