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I just took the dive and updated and I'm finding I'm a little lost. I also switched to a Mac OS, I bought a mac book pro (I still have my 5 year old pc).

Questions:

1. Can I use my 2010 arch Vw for Mac on my PC as well (copy on my mac book and copy on my pc)? How? Can I go back and forth? (I am still using 11.5 on my PC and scared to jump my real projects to the new VW/mac)

2. There seems to be no guide to work flow. I design very custom homes and cabins.

My work flow was:

Sketches - plan - model - cut 3d section - copy to lines -make 2d sections and elevations.

What is the best work flow for me now? Any examples out there or does anybody have a good template for me?

3. How do you Esc on a mac. One of those crossover questions. Ie: your rendering and its taking too long... on a pc you pound the Esc key.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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jonel, in answer to your questions: 1) As far as I know you cannot use your Mac license on PC (or visa-versa). To be certain, you need to call the sales dept.; 2) There are a few "preferred" workflows. I am available to do training, either by phone or in person, and I'm sure there are others perhaps closer to your location. Additionally I would recommend purchasing Jonathan Pickup's manuals (you can find it via this link: http://www.nemetschek.net/training/guides.php ) which will are a great place to start. 3) ESC is in the upper left corner of your mac keyboard.

I would add that VW's 2010 is vastly improved over 11.5. Once you dive in I think you'll be off and running ;-)

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Jonel, I have Jonathan Pickup's book, Vectorworks Architect Tutorial Manual" and it is a very good starting point for learning VW 2010. Additionally, I have done private training with Peter and that has proved to be an extremely valuable experience... and of course the forum here. TY J

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I just took the dive and updated and I'm finding I'm a little lost. I also switched to a Mac OS, I bought a mac book pro (I still have my 5 year old pc).

Questions:

1. Can I use my 2010 arch Vw for Mac on my PC as well (copy on my mac book and copy on my pc)? How? Can I go back and forth? (I am still using 11.5 on my PC and scared to jump my real projects to the new VW/mac){/quote]

Probably not. Check you serial number. The third character should be an M, W or X. X is cross platform. M is Mac and W is Windows. It depends on what license type you have where and how many times you can install the program.

2. There seems to be no guide to work flow. I design very custom homes and cabins.

My work flow was:

Sketches - plan - model - cut 3d section - copy to lines -make 2d sections and elevations.

What is the best work flow for me now? Any examples out there or does anybody have a good template for me?

The workflow between 11.5 and 2010 has not changed that much. If you were happy with 11.5 you can to the same in 2010. The things you probably want to look at and consider using are Viewport and Design Layer Viewports.

3. How do you Esc on a mac. One of those crossover questions. Ie: your rendering and its taking too long... on a pc you pound the Esc key.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

As Peter said, you have Escape on the Mac keyboard also. The other key combination that sometimes works to escape out of renders, etc. is to hold down the Command (cloverleaf) key and hit the period (.) key.

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