dahard Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 (edited) I normally do my 3D modeling in other programs since it's mainly done for rendering purposes. But I would like to start using VW's BIM capabilities. I have a project that would be good for this type of workflow and I have started modeling it in VW. But I noticed right off the bat that the interface seems to be really slow, not very responsive, and not very accurate. The interface is not smooth at all, there is a huge amount of delay. Things don't always snap where I want them to. and navigating around the model is incredibly slow and difficult. I have a new Mac Pro that has a 6 core processor and 16 gigs of RAM. The graphics processor is a ADM FirePro. All of my other 3D programs zip along. Vectorworks 3D, Not so much. Is this just the way it is with VW? Edited November 5, 2015 by dahard Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Which version and SP of Vw are you using? Which version of Mac OS X? For future troubleshooting it will be helpful if you update your signature with the relevant information similar to my signature. Go to My Stuff > Edit Profile at the top of this page. Quote Link to comment
dahard Posted November 5, 2015 Author Share Posted November 5, 2015 Vectorworks 2013, Mac OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted November 5, 2015 Share Posted November 5, 2015 Well - some of your problems may be due to Vw2013 being listed as not compatible with OS X 10.11: Vectorworks Operating System Compatibility List : VwKB Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted November 5, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 5, 2015 ^ This is most likely the main factor. However, 2013 was before any of the modernization of UI resource usage or GPU utilization. I recommend comparing what you're seeing now to how your file behaves in the Vectorworks 2016 trial version: http://www.vectorworks.net/trial/form That will give you a better idea of what the current modern version of Vectorworks is capable of. Quote Link to comment
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