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VW 2019 -- BEWARE Upgrade


donlb55

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Hi Don,

 

Would it be possible to get a test file that shows the second problem you mentioned (symbol class error)? We've done some testing on our end but haven't been able to duplicate these, so it looks like they may only happen in specific cases. Thanks for your help.

 

Best Regards,

 

Tim Connors

Senior QA Specialist

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Thanks Don I was able to track down the file. 

 

Could you point-out a specific viewport and class in this file where you're seeing the problem? I did a comparison between 2018 and 2019 and couldn't find any differences in the Top/Plan viewports, but I could be missing something...

 

Thanks again,

 

Tim

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I've had a couple of problems with section viewports. 

 

One is that I wasn't getting a single, continuous fill for the cut plane.  Turns out there's a new setting in the OIP, "Detail Level," that needs to be set to "Low."  Otherwise, in the "Medium" and "High" settings, wall and slab components are shown. 

 

Another issue, which I think is a bug, is that if the viewport's section line has a jog, the cut plane fill may partially or entirely disappear... 

Maybe you're encountering one or both of those issues...

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Will -- only one of my section viewports (in which the poche/fill was missing) had a jog in the section line, so that doesn't explain the others not being filled. I'm back on 2018, but will try the OIP detail settings to see if that makes a difference. Thanks for your input. Hope Nemetschek can get these bugs addressed ASAP.

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On 9/20/2018 at 11:26 AM, jnr said:

Detail viewports fubar, zooming in and out items in annotations appear/disappear.

@jnr we're trying to track down these bugs you mentioned but haven't been able to reproduce using our own files. Would it be possible to get a test file that shows the problems so we can work towards a fix? Thanks for your help!

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I've not updated to 2019 yet but this has caused me a more than a little hesitation. Over the years we have learnt to rarely convert a project to a new version of the software. I currently have VW 16, 17 & 18 projects  active and don't batch convert because; if it can go wrong, it will. The next project we are about to start is a small interior reno so I'll see if I run into some of these issues in a new clean container. 

 

I tend to agree with the 12 month "new" version criticism; it often takes much of that time to get a handle on what's new, in time for it to change, not to mention that I need to keep at least a few versions of VW active to manage projects so as to not enter a world of pain.  

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The issue for me is related to the Custom Lighting symbols I have created. as soon as I import one of my custom symbols into a new 2019 file the instrument summary tool crashes to desktop.

 

So if I want to keep my current Document Style I have to use 2018  or Generate Summary by hand.

 

Support says they hope to have the issue fixed in SP1

 

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On 9/21/2018 at 8:32 AM, sbarnett said:

They really need to step up the Beta Program to Wider Group.

 

But the Test Group needs to be larger and use a wider selection of Real world Files to identify the issues.

 

I don't know... I think they've succeeded admirably in enlisting the widest group possible with the best real-world files for Beta testing... their entire customer base.  All of us users.  After at least 20, maybe 30 hours with VW 2019, only about 10 of which were billable, I'm back to VW 2018.  Excessive crashing was the final straw (and this with a brand new, fresh project; luckily I didn't convert any projects over from 2018). 

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I lasted about 4 hours with 2019. Once I loaded some plugins and VW 2019 began crashing, I lost interest immediately, as work needs to get done.

Somebody let me know when it's safe to use please, otherwise it'll be more like March before I look seriously at this again. I am considering uninstalling it, so don't have to keep closing it after inadvertently opening it with my 2018 files.

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3 minutes ago, mjm said:

I am considering uninstalling it, so don't have to keep closing it after inadvertently opening it with my 2018 files.

 

You should be able to prevent this without uninstalling.  In the Finder, right-click on one of your 2018 files, select "Get Info," and then adjust "Open With" so that VW 2018 is the default for all of your .vwx files.

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9 minutes ago, willofmaine said:

 

You should be able to prevent this without uninstalling.  In the Finder, right-click on one of your 2018 files, select "Get Info," and then adjust "Open With" so that VW 2018 is the default for all of your .vwx files.

TYVM @willofmaine. The Irritation-O-Meter has gone down several notches this morning.

Now if I could rid myself of that pesky notice that VW 2019 is available…

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I've had surprisingly few crashes (yay!); however, I have found a handful of reproducible bugs. One was within a minute of trying 2019 for the first time.

 

Nothing has been catastrophic to the point where 2019 is unusable (knock on wood), but I can't help feeling like we're acting as beta testers for paid software, which is a little cringey. But I do love the improvements that were made this year!

 

Hopefully Vectorworks expands their beta testing group in the future, and/or devotes more resources to resolving bugs that are found by the beta testers before releasing the software to the public. 

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I've actually had a mildly pleasant experience with 2019 thus far.   I wasn't planning on using it right now,  but out of sheer desperation with the complete failure that is 2018 SP4,  I tried it and so far I haven't had nearly the number of beachballs per hour as 2018.     Switching sheet layers is stupid slow though,   30 seconds or something.     And the "new" to braceworks Structural Member tool doesn't work.   I'm sure there are other things.   Time will tell...

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2018 had been working fine on a late 2013 iMac running Sierra. 2019 on the same machine running Mojave is not usable. With Mojave 2018 is also now too slow to be practical. I wish Apple would let you roll back without wiping your hard drive but with jobs to finish asap I guess a fresh start is where I'm at. Simple 2D drawing works well to get the immediate work done but text entry on design layers and in viewports is beyond painfully....20-30 seconds per character. Drawings aren't much good if they aren't annotated. I won't even bother trying to render anything or use Braceworks with this setup.

 

It did kick my butt to order the iMac Pro I've been hemming and hawing on. While I'm sure ultimately it will be a good machine some of my problems must lie with 2019 bugs and/or compatibility problems with Mojave. Like many others I'm of the strong opinion that new versions and updates should come when they're ready not when a page falls off the calendar. That said a bug fix/Mojave compatibility update can't come quickly enough.

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