acttheatre Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 So, we've been on this product since Minicad 6. We recently updated to Vectorworks 2011 from 12.5 on our three licenses. We so totally regret this now. Performance is horrible, even on modern Macs and PCs. There are bizarre things happening to our files and workflow. However, I am posting to ask about one particular bug we just discovered today. We regularly scan drawings and import the image so we can trace over the image. 12.5 was fine - it imported quickly, rotated properly, and everything was great. 2011 just does not work. We discovered today that an imported image will not rotate properly. It is consistently between half a degree and one degree off. If we try to rotate it the last half degree or so, IT SCALES THE IMAGE instead of rotating. Seriously. I just contacted support about this, but have any other users noticed this? Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 I've had zero issues rotating jpgs, pngs, or pdfs in 2011. Can you post an example? mk Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 I regularly import scanned images and then scale and/or rotate them. Like Michael I also haven't experienced any problems. What is the size of your scans and what image format are they? Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 (edited) I recently had some problems with images imported as resources. When mapped onto a 2d object (everything in Top/Plan, Screen Plane), a rotated resource image is sometimes clipped parallel to its mapping boundary. View is fine in Design Layer - entire object is covered with the mapped image, and image details are represented in desired locations. But in viewport, the image does not cover entire object to which it is mapped. As if the VP shifted the mapping. But it might be some file corruption. I cannot repeat it in a new file. -B Edited June 1, 2011 by Benson Shaw Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 There have been mapping/rendering problems with image textures, like Benson says, but I've never seen just straight imported images fail to rotate correctly. If you can get an image on a drawing to misbehave, please post it here. mk Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Check if this doesn't happen to be related to the Screen/Layer Plane settings somehow....... Quote Link to comment
acttheatre Posted June 15, 2011 Author Share Posted June 15, 2011 I'm putting this bug on the back burner due to a real deal-breaking problem. Our main design machine has a recurring problem where the output to our large-format printer is cropped to just a random section of the drawing at 8.5"x11". Even a PDF exported (via the print dialog, we only have Fundamentals) still prints cropped. This seems to infect the file in some way, parts of a 'bad' file when copied to other new files bring along the bad data. Here's the real kicker: We had this problem way back with Vectorworks 12.5.3, Mac OS X 10.5.8, and an HP Designjet 800ps. We never solved it. We have upgraded the OS to 10.6.7, to Vectorworks 2011, and a Canon iPF8000s only to find the problem still plaguing us. Sometimes the files fail to print correctly on our other Mac design station, but always print on the one PC on our floor. Has *anyone* seen a problem like this? We're on the verge of returning our licenses and bailing on Nemetschek entirely. This issue added with the atrocious performance on Macs of version 2011 has us really unhappy. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted June 15, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 15, 2011 Just a thought - but have you run software update on the Mac since going to 10.6.7... there was a nasty bug introduced with fonts on that and it brought down many printing capabilities. There is a fix - just run software update and you should get the font fix. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Nick- Does this happen with all of your files? And have you contacted Nemetschek Tech Support directly about the ongoing printing problems you've been having? If not, it sounds like you should. Regards, Tim Quote Link to comment
tsw Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I don't know if this will help your particular situation, but the clear print settings script has helped me with a past printer issue. http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/509/Reset+Document+Print+Settings Quote Link to comment
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