This is a post to say what a waste of time I find VW 2018. I have just wasted 2 hours trying to get a gobo to render. I did finally get that gobo to render, but only in a blank new file with two objects in it, an extrude to hit with gobo and a new fixture from a library (moved to a new location without warning; from object styles to it's own 'by-mfr-by type' folder: surprise!!),
Having conclusively proven that 2018 was not ready for my use by wasting most of a day trying to make VW 2017 projects work, I decided to wait till now.
Things are not better. More time wasted, less actual work done. Frustration very high.
It's literally crazy-making that projects from pervious years may have to be rebuilt from scratch and/or tan enormous amount of my time has to be spent discovering which what how why something doesn't work, and then to have to remake it. I am beyond words at this moment. Perhaps spending an hour with tech support would alleviated my emotional state—or not. Time and work wasted to make this product better, after paying so. much. money. Might be chicken scratch to you architects, but to me, who works only with dot-orgs, it's ALOT of money. And when product doesn't work I get unhappy. Who's gonna play with my children when I have to work late to make up the deficit?
Yes, after install I did restart the machine (I remember, just like every version of windows I ever ran—one of the reasons I moved to Mac). No, it did not appear to help.
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This is a post to say what a waste of time I find VW 2018. I have just wasted 2 hours trying to get a gobo to render. I did finally get that gobo to render, but only in a blank new file with two objects in it, an extrude to hit with gobo and a new fixture from a library (moved to a new location without warning; from object styles to it's own 'by-mfr-by type' folder: surprise!!),
Having conclusively proven that 2018 was not ready for my use by wasting most of a day trying to make VW 2017 projects work, I decided to wait till now.
Things are not better. More time wasted, less actual work done. Frustration very high.
It's literally crazy-making that projects from pervious years may have to be rebuilt from scratch and/or tan enormous amount of my time has to be spent discovering which what how why something doesn't work, and then to have to remake it. I am beyond words at this moment. Perhaps spending an hour with tech support would alleviated my emotional state—or not. Time and work wasted to make this product better, after paying so. much. money. Might be chicken scratch to you architects, but to me, who works only with dot-orgs, it's ALOT of money. And when product doesn't work I get unhappy. Who's gonna play with my children when I have to work late to make up the deficit?
Yes, after install I did restart the machine (I remember, just like every version of windows I ever ran—one of the reasons I moved to Mac). No, it did not appear to help.
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