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more power = invest more btw You shouldn't expect that VW become next Archicad. NNA already owns Archicad and Allplan. Why would NNA create duplicities.... I think, they will tailor their packages to suit needs of different market segments.

VW is knife. Revit and Archicad are powerfull chainsaws. You can effectively cut down whole forest using chainsaw but for carving subtle wooden sculptures is better good knife. I can agree that BIM tools in VW should work properly without bugs, but from my point of view folowing blindly Revit or Archicad way of doing things make no sense. Diversity is good thing and VW = "swiss army knife" for small architectural praxis. [img:left]http://swiss-army-discounts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wenger-giant-knife.jpg[/img]

http://www.youtube.com/user/3dmodelsfree Very interesting, but still, Revit is almost 2 times more expensive and I doubt the program is equally more productive compared to VW. Btw VW is not that strong BIM production tool but its flexibility, very good 2D and almost direct modeling 3D capabilities make it very powerfull designing tool.

direct reshaping - rotating faces etc http://youtu.be/JvDOoYaXZ44 3D constraints http://youtu.be/-vRsBDZQc1Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjv2N0Un_I0 600 dollar CAD software ..

Try this: http://www.vectordepot.com/hatches/

2012 http://planet.vectorworks.net/2011/09/nemetschek-vectorworks-announces-vectorworks-2012-u-s-virtual-event/

Here you are. Hope it's ok.

I tried to import your file into vw2009. No problem. See attached file.

VW2011 doesn't support SU8 file format. You have to save back to SU 7 or 6.

You can set 3D triangles color in DTM settings.It should determine color of section fill 3D triangles ...

The drop down menu is called pattern style now, check worksheet settings. I made only few tweaks in captured screen picture.

This would be very useful improvement. The ability to choose symbol thumbnail preview as a fill of a worksheet cell. .. and not only symbol thumbnail - wall styles, hatches, textures Worksheet crossed with resource browser would allow easy creation of really nice tables of materials (cells filled with hatches or textures), tables of walls (cells with linked wall styles ..), door and window schedules ... etc It could work this way

Hi, try to investigate attached file (vw2009)hope it will help ..

It could be graphics driver issue. Try install directly up to date driver from ati pages. http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-32.aspx Check your Quicktime version too. Try to run your installation file as admin..

Where can I get that ? And what if it doesn't work ? http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Chris, I use often this Vectorbits plugin: http://www.vectorbits.com/VectorBits_2011/vectorbits/Entradas/2008/4/24_Stretch.html And the VW 2D reshape tool works quite well too.

... maybe the forum could be tuned a little bit and incorporate google search engine

Try Draftsight for converting dwg. It supports dwg 2010 http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/download-draftsight/

Hmm ... conversion of 3Dloci into stake objects would solve the problem, but it's not possible in VW2009 (without scripting)

Does exist plugin similar to Vectorbits xy plugin which would extract Z coordinate of a 3D locus and place text string with its value to the file? I have a point cloud and want to get Z coordinate of each point "visible". Thanks fo advice.

The problems seems to be related mostly to Macs ...

You can try draw a triangle in a desired view, then convert it into NURBS curve and use Protrusion/Cutout tool in Extrude curve mode ... 01 02 03

Sorry, you can extract planar - polyline based shapes from solid/NURBS geometry.

2011 can convert NURBS into polylines. 2009 probably not.. At least I didn't find how it could be done ..