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steve s

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  1. I installed it without issue, haven't used much since though.
  2. I have had some similar type issues, after repeated renders, i have had advice to watch the amount of memory VW is using. I have found that if I restart VW when it gets to about 1.5gb of usage things are much better. You can watch the memory usage in the Activity monitor. This has been true for me even though there is plenty of free ram available. Tech support told me: "I would recommend watching Vectorworks until it gets to about 1.5GB of memory being used. Once it gets this high, I would recommend saving the file and restarting Vectorworks. This should keep the memory usage down so you don?t run into these error messages or lose any work. This issue has been submitted to our engineers so they can determine exactly why this is happening."
  3. I experienced a lot of crashes too, I contacted tech support several times, one suggestion they had, was to try disconnecting my external monitor - Hdmi tv. This changed nothing, another that has helped is to watch the memory usage in activity monitor and when vw is using about 1.5 gb of memory to close and restart vw. Even if there is plenty of free ram available ( I have 32 gb). This solved a good share of the crashes, but I still am experiencing behaviors such as screen redraws not happening unless I change views , this is also solved by restarting vw. I have a new iMac and most of my crashes involved rendering or editing textures. I suspect it is a graphics card related issue. I even had apple replace my logic board because there was no clear pattern to the crashes. There is some serious issues with vw and my new 2012 iMac . Fwiw .....A follow up, I installed some temp. monitors, I see my CPU getting pretty hot, after a few renders CPU Core 1: 100? C 2:85 ? 3: 104? 4:91? 5:101? 6:97? 7:98? This seems very hot , and reached in just a few minutes, the graphics processor is staying in the 50?s.
  4. JW, That makes sense I do notice the fans kicking up when rendering. I am hoping new Mac pros are coming soon. Apple probably put in smaller fans so they could make the iMac thinner, which is sooo useful
  5. I have a new iMac see specs below, I have been having many crashes, usually related to rendering and memory issues, even though I have lots of ram. Restarting often solves a lot of this. I have been working with tech support but no clear indication of where the problem is. I also got apple to replace my logic board, did not seem to solve anything . Though the last couple weeks I have not used vw much. Some exmple of crashes where vw quit, once I was moving a texture with the attribute tool, once a big render was interrupted by the auto save , others occurred after multiple rerenders. My guess is its the graphics card or drivers, or just something in mountain lion, or possibly the Fusion drive. I don't usually have multiple files open - just wanted to comment on the instabilities.
  6. Ok got it. Lots of bugs in VW. Its amazing what it can do but for 3000$ I am surprised how buggy it is. And very disappointed.
  7. Maybe I have been missing something fundamental but... I save Palette positions to the current workspace then move a Palette anywhere, then reselect the saved workspace expecting the Palettes to go back to The last saved position but they don't . They stay wherever I moved them to. Am I expecting the wrong behaviour? What I want is to get a workspace setup with Palette positions so I can get back to the saved version of the workspace whenever I want. Thanks for any help.
  8. Maybe I have been missing something fundamental but... I save Palette positions to the current workspace then move a Palette anywhere, then reselect the saved workspace expecting the Palettes to go back to The last saved position but they don't . They stay wherever I moved them to. Am I expecting the wrong behaviour? What I want is to get a workspace setup with Palette positions so I can get back to the saved version of the workspace whenever I want. Thanks for any help.
  9. I changed the 3d side bottom of the site model to blue so it looks like water-which it is- looks good in top but when rotated its no longer solid blue see pics- Site model elevation is 0 to 10m anyone know why this is happening - have a better technique to show water in the site model thanks
  10. I exported the file in tiff and png formats and tried again and it would not work, I tried another file that is jpg, and it would not work, but I was able to use another png file that worked, it seems to work ok with very small files. But the file in question is not all that big and Jonathan was able to make a texture on his computer with this file, and yes I was using the resource browser. I think it's a problem with my computer but I have reinstalled the os from scratch reinstalled vw and it's a new imac i7. I am suspecting the graphics card as all problems I have had could be related to the graphics card. Might have to send the comp into apple.... Thanks
  11. I am getting this error on osx 10.8.2 when I try to import a file to make anew texture "Unable to create graphics importer for the file.Quicktime may not have an importer installed or is low on memory .Please reinstall quicktime" I did a clean install of osx and vw. I have tried other image files. I installed QuickTime 7 I have tried making a texture with only a new document open. I wrote the vw support but no response yet. It's a new imac i7 32 gb ram , I have had some unexplained crashes with this machine, but has been stable since the reinstall. I ran apple hardware test and everything passed. any comments appreciated
  12. Yeah that'd be great. The vw file and the pic? edit: I am just sending the pic the DTM is too big for email.
  13. Thanks Jonathan I am trying to create a new texture with the image, I am getting "Unable to create graphics importer for the file.Quicktime may not have an importer installed or is low on memory .Please reinstall quicktime" The file is a jpg 21x14 cm 280kb I got this before on different project, on Mlion 10.8.2 32 gb rm Surely this file is not too big, tried it as Tiff also same result, closed and reopened VW also. Should I really reinstall quicktime, if that is even possible?? Thanks
  14. I dont see the option to decal in the render settings for a site model, I would like to overlay the site's map image to the surface of the Site model, is this possible? Thanks
  15. That was my topic also, another project same situation, I was over estimating the abilities of VW with 32 gb ram. Live and learn Will limiting the amount of undos or anything else help the situation?
  16. Ok I'll give it a try, thanks. ....later that day... It worked, made a huge difference, some of the rounder, smaller areas I needed to fix but the rest still look good enough. thanks again
  17. I made a new dtm, but cannot do anything with it, I have to keep saving to new file as getting the Out of Memory error. Is there any way I can fix it without starting over. Can I run smooth Polys or something on the Source Objects? I made the DTM by Polylines then converting to polygons then ran Survey Input 2d polys to 3d contours and also had stake objects, I suppose its fairly complex not a huge site though. Does the scale matter? I have plenty of ram, turning off all layers but the site model doesn't help. Thanks for any help
  18. ok good to know, I thought that might be it, Surprising though, its not like its some insane size.
  19. I tried everything you both suggested. Still doesnt show , the only odd thing maybe is the file is pretty big, but was displaying fine before. Could Vw be choking on the pic size? It's 4961 x 3508 8591kb I'm in top plan , screen plane , resolution full, object has a fill, it is selected in oip, Every class and layer is on, all have visibility and 100% opacity, scales are all 1/1 and that has not changed , also I can see that the object/bitmap is selected . Please see pic . ** Now I am getting out of memory error. says to reinstall quicktime. Mlion 10.8.2 32 gb ram.....somethings messed up somewhere , guess ill reinstall the OS Thanks Update: booted form a cloned backup drive, now the bitmap shows...
  20. I see the selection handles, it shows bitmap selected in the OIP, but no bitmap just empty selection rectangle where the bitmap was yesterday,, all layers and classes are on everything is set to visible, I am in top plan view. layers are aligned Unified view and all layers are 100% opacity. Why can't I see my bitmap ?? I haven't touched the file since I saved it, I was tracing contour lines over the BMap. As far as I know it should be in the same state I left it yesterday, i.e.. bit map showing behind the new lines I made. Thanks for any input.
  21. Thanks benson, I did what you said...now just realized the data points were added with a pad modifier, I altered the pad modifier to change the data that was greyed out. Just not understanding how all the pieces work together yet.
  22. I did, but not all the data is available, my original data points are greyed out. I turned on all classes too and that didn't help. Sorry, should have been clearer.
  23. How can I edit the existing source data, I can get to the proposed but the original data points are greyed out, I want to edit them. Thanks
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