Change VW to a 3 year iteration

[Jim Smith]

Perhaps put this down to chasing "ghosts" in VW 2019 or the first significant snow fall of the season.

 

In the olden days I used to skip an iteration of VW as it seemed that VW would introduce tools & work flows that were not ready for prime time & have them mostly fixed by the following release. I kinda want to go back to that model as there seem to be far too many stray threads left dangling with the software. Stuff small & large (stair tool?) does not seem to get addressed as the software is locked into the  NEW & IMPROVED marketing BS that effects many pieces of software. It's as if software is the latest T-Bird;  now with square tail lights instead of the old circular ones. All the while drivers have to plot trips based on how far they are from a dealership!

 

Leme back-up, I'm willing to continue to pay for service select. No Question. But I would rather that SS was just to support the process to ensure that SP's allowed for fixes to broken stuff, & allowed for OS issues & updates. That SS confided users of VW to minor tweaks and to allowed for one to import the most up to date versions of files from other consultants. 

 

In this alternate reality,  all the cool "new"  tools would be left in the sandbox in the Old Line State and only unleashed every third year. This way we can get work accomplished & not spend weeks of un-billable hours fighting ghosts and the BB wouldn't be full of gripes like mine. Do this & I bet you can sell many more seats to both those kids who walk on my lawn, geezers like me, as well as frustated Revit users.

 

Don't get me wrong, I've use other software & VW continues to out perform & I think folks who both watch this BB & work on the software do an amazing job. But with a longer window for a "New & Improved" release I think VW could be an even better experience. 

 

To quote the late great Stan Lee: "Nuf said"

 

[JMR]

I concur!

 

NNA needs to seriously contemplate if they want to keep architects as their customers. The software, while having great potential, is WAY too buggy as it is.

 

NNA also needs to understand that the price difference (about double the price) to other mainstream competors is MEANINGLESS compared to the loss of billable time and stress caused by bugs/subpar functionality.

 

I personally like VW over the other choices, but overall quality is a serious problem.

 

[mjm]

Also; having to spend billable time learning new stuff to do old things every year seems crazy to me, as well as imagining that in a 365 day cycle, the engineers will have ironed out all the bugs and then create a new better app which actually increases productivity. For ex: I stopped using 2019 almost immediately due to several reasons, not least of which was the black render viewport problem, which was apparently fixed in SP1.1. Not true, happened again to me yesterday and after five minutes of tinkering, exported the file back to 2018. Only fix I found was closing and re-opening the app. I don't have time for that. So, back in 2018 till next SP.

Oh wait: Also, 2019 stopped highlighting or showing in any way that I'd selected an object. Surest way to see was to hit delete. If line disappeared, I'd managed to select it. 

 

Edited November 17, 2018 by mjm
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