ydatal Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Anyone know if there are any issues using VectorWorks with the new Mac OS, Tiger (just released today, 4/29/05). Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 NNA issued a press release on this. http://www.nemetschek.net/news/pressreleases/2005/042605.html Quote Link to comment
ydatal Posted April 29, 2005 Author Share Posted April 29, 2005 Yes, thank you - I found the press release on the Nemetschek website. Quote Link to comment
ionw Posted April 30, 2005 Share Posted April 30, 2005 On my test machine, a 1 ghz g4, the speed increase was phenomenal! I was able to manipulate and select 100,000 objects, duplicate, rotate, in a mere fraction of the time. Are there other issues, I don't know, I just started testing today. I will pipe up as I know more. ion Quote Link to comment
ydatal Posted April 30, 2005 Author Share Posted April 30, 2005 Thanks Ion - a speed increase would be terrific and Nemetschek seems to have done a lot of testing. Now I just have to get the folks from the other software companies of products I depend on to get their software up-to date! Quote Link to comment
matto Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 I would have to concur with Ion, only just started testing on a non-critical machine (i.e. my home computer) and VW feels snappier. I'm also on 1Ghz G4. But will post more as if anything shows up. Quote Link to comment
dwdwdw Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Anyone using VW 10.5 with Tiger? I'm itch to upgrade to Tiger, but don't have VW 11.5 yet Quote Link to comment
ionw Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 Ok, still running tests, and nothing very new to report. A question for others that are testing capability, are you getting speed values that are very much the same for both VW 10.5.1 and VW 11.5? I notice that the slight stalls I can force happen a little differently between the two versions, but that the overall speed is about the same. Quote Link to comment
ionw Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 Ok, still running tests, and nothing very new to report. A question for others that are testing capability, are you getting speed values that are very much the same for both VW 10.5.1 and VW 11.5? I notice that the slight stalls I can force happen a little differently between the two versions, but that the overall speed is about the same. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 I have been using VW11.5 with Tiger since Saturday. So far there have not been any problems - but I am mainly doing 2D drawings at the moment. I have also tried opening several previous model files to see what happens. I would agree with IONW that there are no noticeable speed gains in rendering and the like. 2D snapping in Top / Plan view seems marginally better. Apart from that everything seems pretty much the same. [ 05-03-2005, 05:09 AM: Message edited by: mike m oz ] Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 I have just started having problems with an imported DWG drawing (title block only) Every time I go into Page Setup the program crashes. I have tried purging, workgroup referencing etc with no joy. Quote Link to comment
ydatal Posted May 3, 2005 Author Share Posted May 3, 2005 To everyone responding to my initial inquiry regarding the compatibility of "Tiger" with VW. It is great to have this ongoing dialog/posting of the little "nuances" which haunt all of us when upgrading to the "new-and-improved" versions of software where we spend the first few weeks (months) consuming any time we thought we might have saved in upgrading to a new version in the first place. I've already determined that for our office, we are better off waiting to upgrade after Tiger has gotten the kinks out of it. However, I also feel I should buy one license and install the new OS on a spare machine and run some tests so I too can add to this ongoing effort of discovery and identification. You folks are contributing much, and I certainly would not enjoy standing back and "freeload" off everyone's diligent efforts. Thanks to all! Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted May 3, 2005 Share Posted May 3, 2005 I'm not Tiger , yet , but happy to report OSX3.9 & VW11.5 are fine & dandy like sugar & candy! Quote Link to comment
PacificDesign Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Hi there, I'm using Tiger on a test machine and VW 10.5 runs fine. I haven't tested 11.5 yet. Is anyone using it or know of problems using 11.5 & Tiger within a lab environment? I want to install it on the head machine (the one with the dongle) but not on any of the others. Thanks Quote Link to comment
acepernich Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Has anyone tried using Spotlight for searches of text in VW drawings? Quote Link to comment
Arturo Mendez Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 After using VW 11.5 and Mac OS 10.4 (tiger) on a G4(1.24Gh-756ram) for a week, mainly for 2d and 3d sketches, I can report no problems at all. I also feel some kind of speed increase and stability... At the apple?s spotlight issue (somehow it can get confused with the vectorworks spotlight module), it seems that VW needs to create some kind of plugin (as Archicad or Ashlar had already done) to be installed in the spotlight system, so it can be able to extract the metadata from the VW files... I have just posted a request in the wish list item of these forums Quote Link to comment
D Wood Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 For those still on VW10x and being careful with your money - I think the upgrade to 11.5 was more valuable to me than upgrading to OS10.4 Tiger could be. I'm gonna wait for OS10.4.1 anyway, going by the posts in the Apple discussions. Regards David W Auckland, NZ iMac 17", OS10.3.9, VWA 11.5 Quote Link to comment
fsung Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 quote: Originally posted by D Wood: [QB] For those still on VW10x and being careful with your money - I think the upgrade to 11.5 was more valuable to me than upgrading to OS10.4 Tiger could be./QB] I can't speak for others, but for my money, the upgrade to VW 11.5, though valuable in terms of the improved capabilities, doesn't begin to compare with the value of Tiger, because VW 11.5 improvements are program-specific, while Tiger's benefits are system- and application-wide. I installed Tiger on an external drive for testing purposes a little over a week ago, and I can report that everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) is faster, more stable, and more secure. I benchmarked Photoshop 3.0 running in Classic mode, just for the heck of it, and it runs anywhere from 8-15% faster, depending on the operation, in Tiger than it ran in Jaguar 10.3.9. Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 quote: Originally posted by fsung: ...and I can report that everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) is faster, more stable, and more secure... What computer are you using, G4, G5? Quote Link to comment
APE Design Ctr Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 I have had a couple of issues, however It may be related to how I have my workspace set up: My Panning does not work, when I press down the space bar. The panning icon is quickly displayed, than snaps back to the 2D selection tool. When I want to duplicate an item, I used to hold down my Alt key, and I could rubber stamp things easily ... no more. When I go to the online help by pressing F1, I can view the subjects, but I cannot click on a topic to view. When I hold down my shift, I usually got my different degree rotation options, now it doesnt seem to work. Any ideas?? thanks Quote Link to comment
fsung Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 quote: Originally posted by Kevin: quote:Originally posted by fsung: ...and I can report that everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) is faster, more stable, and more secure... What computer are you using, G4, G5? 2.0 G5 Dual. Quote Link to comment
fsung Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 quote: Originally posted by APE Design Ctr: I have had a couple of issues, however It may be related to how I have my workspace set up: My Panning does not work, when I press down the space bar. The panning icon is quickly displayed, than snaps back to the 2D selection tool. When I want to duplicate an item, I used to hold down my Alt key, and I could rubber stamp things easily ... no more. When I go to the online help by pressing F1, I can view the subjects, but I cannot click on a topic to view. When I hold down my shift, I usually got my different degree rotation options, now it doesnt seem to work. Any ideas?? thanks I'm not seeing the panning problem or the duplicate item problem: both work as expected. Online help does seem to be broken, though: the topics display, but clicking them does nothing. Doesn't matter if I invoke Help from F1 or the Help menu. (Not a big issue for me since I rarely need to use the online help, but it does need to be addressed. Hopefully, Nemetschek will fix it in the next couple of weeks.) Not sure what you're referring to regarding rotation options. I've always simply right-clicked on an object to access editing options (cut, copy, paste, send and rotate sub-menus, object properties pallet). Right-clicking still works for me. Quote Link to comment
APE Design Ctr Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 I should have clarified a bit. If I draw a simple 2D line, and I hold the Shift down, it gives me the angle in increments (30, 45, 90 deg). This doesnt work for me. Anyone else experiencing this? Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 this works for me in tiger... but I did a clean install of everything... Quote Link to comment
APE Design Ctr Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Problem solved ... wierd thing: I just bought a new machine, and I used the keyboard from the older G5, on the new one. Looks like the new G5 doesnt like the old keyboard, as since switched, all my problems listed above are gone... Quote Link to comment
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