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Thanks for the tips! I set up all the sheets, VP's, layers, classes etc. as instructed by the book from the get go but something must have gone haywire. I used the title block template in VW and it places itself on the sheet fine. The viewports and viewports on sheets were set up automatically for me when I used the project wizard set up. All of my scales are set up appropriately. I will find out what printer the print shop is using and hopefully that will clear up these memory errors although if you're using a raster format like TIFF I'm not clear how that will help. I'll definately check out the free PDF resources, thanks!

Hi Guys, Thanks for the replies! I'm on Windows XP so the PDF isn't an option unless I purchase that software too. Through other threads I understand there are mixed experiences with jpg's and the local printers in my area (Sacramento) really prefer TIFF for a number of reasons so I'd like to stick with that if at all possible. Since I'm saving a file to TIFF format I'm not sure how this could be a driver issue unless there is an update to 12.0.1 that makes TIFF export more efficient. So for steps here goes: 1. view a sheet that has a viewport of the floor plan (in wireframe mode with a title block inlcuded; sheet at 1/4"=1'0" scale) 2. Go to file-->export image file-->pop up window 3. Select 300 dpi instead of 72 4. Click set output size to 36" wide (I don't know why VW auto shrinks the size when you upsize the dpi; actually I leave the 24" dimension at 25.xxx or whatever VW calculates) 5. Select TIFF as the output file type from the drop down 6. Click the Save button to create the file. I think it's really pretty straight forward which is why I'm so surprised. Thanks! Brian

Hi all, I'm running VW 12 on XP with 1 GB of Ram and a slower 1.3 GHz processor. I am having lots of problems exporting TIFF's out of VW at 300dpi. I consistently get the out of memory error even though when I watch task manager I have over 400 MB's free. The drawing I have is relatively simple and straight forward. Just trying to print 1 sheet of one floor that is about 1000 sq ft house. It is a viewport on a sheet. My sheet is set up as 24x36 and am really confused why VW calculates a dimension as 25.xxxx when I type in 36 as the width (when upping the standard 72 dpi VW auto shrinks the sheet size so I have to adjust). Seems odd to me. I've been using VW for about 3 weeks now and can't say I'm too impressed. I used Mini-CAD years ago and some of the stability problems are still around. I also exported a file in dwg format and VW converted a lot of elements to raster graphics instead of vectors (dimension text for example). That was perplexing. Made for a very large file. Anyhow, any help on this memory issue would be appreciated. Standard print quality is 300 dpi and you'd think VW could handle that! Brian

Thanks! It was a function of me not knowing how to import .mcd files into the resource browser. None came pre-populated for me.

I am an old Mini-CAD user and just got my VectorWorks Architect software installed. I can't for the life of me find a basic toilet symbol. A pedestal sink? a bed? These are all *really* basic symbols and I can't imagine a 1.5k piece of software wouldn't have these. Please help me find them. And if anyone knows how to search 5006 symbols quicker than the 5 minutes VectorWorks takes to do it please tell me! Brian