The "home screen" should list files in a more useful way.

[line-weight]

I guess I'm not the only one who just closes this window immediately when starting up VW.

 

One of the reasons is that the list of recent files is not ordered in a useful way. It lists them according to when they were last opened. This means that if I've had a main project file open for a few days, but have a opened and closed a bunch of other unimportant things in the meantime, the main project file appears somewhere well down the list. So I have to go searching for it. It doesn't give me any advantage over just using "open recent" in the file menu. At least there the list is more compact and I don't have to scroll down to see the bottom of it.

 

If it listed files according to "last closed" for example, this would be more useful.

[markdd]

2 minutes ago, line-weight said:

 

I guess I'm not the only one who just closes this window immediately when starting up VW.

 

It’s really grim. I have turned it off altogether in Vectorworks preferences. 

[Andy Broomell]

After trying the Home Screen for a while I found it to be mostly useless, so I switched my VW Preferences so it never auto-appears

 

Also, the way it flashes white for a second as it loads (I use dark mode) and then zooms to fill the screen is just annoying. It should just appear.

[Matt Overton]

It would be great if we had a hot project list that looked to see what folders the recent files were in, then kept the most recent folders and even allowed us to pin folders.

 

Although it might need to look up the chain a level or 2 to get meaningful names; otherwise, in our case, it would just hot list 10 folders named "CAD".

[line-weight]

24 minutes ago, Matt Overton said:

It would be great if we had a hot project list that looked to see what folders the recent files were in, then kept the most recent folders and even allowed us to pin folders.

 

Although it might need to look up the chain a level or 2 to get meaningful names; otherwise, in our case, it would just hot list 10 folders named "CAD".

Yes, pinning folders or files could certainly be useful.

[Christiaan]

The main annoyance I have is that it can stop a shut down on macOS.

 

I do use it though. I like the Messages centre plus all the links to various support and learning pages.

 

On 12/19/2023 at 10:41 PM, line-weight said:

If it listed files according to "last closed" for example, this would be more useful.

I think would be better like this too.

[Matt Overton]

On 1/15/2024 at 7:16 PM, Christiaan said:

The main annoyance I have is that it can stop a shut down on macOS.

 

I do use it though. I like the Messages centre plus all the links to various support and learning pages.

 

I think would be better like this too.

That is hopefully fixed as part of the non-modal change.