line-weight Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 7 hours ago, EAlexander said: This is a major grip of mine. They have been using this fake GUI in the marketing videos for a few years now (maybe since 17 or 18). I find it horribly misleading and confusing. I agree...it's pretty much straight-up false advertising. Quote Link to comment
Matt Overton Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 4 hours ago, JuanP said: Yes, here it is: 2020-additional-task-list.pdf I’ve seen nothing yet in this about how sections have improved. Quote Link to comment
SeanOSkea Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 @Matt Overton You need to help the developers re-do the Window tool. Then we could all have an Overton Window tool. 😉 1 1 Quote Link to comment
scottmoore Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 On 9/10/2019 at 11:04 PM, SeanOSkea said: @Jim W Wait? What?! Jim W has left Vectorworks! Oh for F sake. The best person in the tech support has left. This is a sad day. NOOOO!!!!!!!! Jim was the best advocate for VW! 2 Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 More icon visuals 1 Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 9 hours ago, mjm said: More icon visuals Yikes! Those are hard to read. Kevin Quote Link to comment
Andrew Davies Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 What's happening here??!!! 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted September 16, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 16, 2019 3 minutes ago, Andrew Davies said: What's happening here??!!! These are by design! 🙂 These "empty" icons show for components that have no geometry in them. 3 Quote Link to comment
Andrew Davies Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 AhhH!!! That makes sense.....😳 Useful too Quote Link to comment
rb-arch Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 On 9/11/2019 at 10:24 AM, rb-arch said: Here's a link showing the disappearance of the status / update bar on the lower right..... Anyone else having this problem? All our iMac's are like this - the status bar doesn't show updates when saving, saving and committing or updating viewports. It is amazing how much more frustration it adds when you don't know how far along it is. My video shows the difference between 2020 and 2019. The link should show a high quality video. Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 5 hours ago, Matt Panzer said: These are by design! 🙂 These "empty" icons show for components that have no geometry in them. This does make sense, but I didn’t see where the ‘empty’ icon functionality was described in the Help file section on Creating 2D Components for Symbol Definitions and Plug-ins. It might be something that deserves explanation. Quote Link to comment
Amorphous - Julian Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 On 9/14/2019 at 6:50 AM, Matt Overton said: I’ve seen nothing yet in this about how sections have improved. Agreed. Section times are terrible. @JuanP Vectorworks is primarily a tool for Architects and Designers to output drawings. The performance of this is atrociously slow in the 3D workflow. Per post below. Speeding this up has to happen NOW. When can we expect this primary function of this tool to improve? PS Please don't ask me to send confidential Project Files to tech support. My experience is that I send confidential files out only to get a 'cannot replicate problem' response, and doesn't go further. We are highly proficient VW users with very good knowledge of IT, we have very good hardware in our office. 3 Quote Link to comment
michael john williams Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 You are all most probably aware....You Tube has a good set of videos of 2020 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted September 17, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 17, 2019 10 hours ago, rDesign said: This does make sense, but I didn’t see where the ‘empty’ icon functionality was described in the Help file section on Creating 2D Components for Symbol Definitions and Plug-ins. It might be something that deserves explanation. Good point. I'll see if I can get something added for that. Thanks, Matt 1 Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted September 17, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 17, 2019 2 hours ago, Matt Panzer said: 12 hours ago, rDesign said: This does make sense, but I didn’t see where the ‘empty’ icon functionality was described in the Help file section on Creating 2D Components for Symbol Definitions and Plug-ins. It might be something that deserves explanation. Good point. I'll see if I can get something added for that. Thanks, Matt Ok, there actually is information in the help about this but you need to expand the "Click to show/hide the parameters" section under the "Component Edit" palette image. We plan to make that section no longer collapsable so it's always visible. 2 Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 16 minutes ago, Matt Panzer said: We plan to make that section no longer collapsable so it's always visible. Matt - thank you for finding that section, I clearly missed it. Generally speaking, I’m not a fan of most of the collapsible sections in the Help file. I’m always having to click them open because that’s where almost all of the important info lives. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 51 minutes ago, rDesign said: Generally speaking, I’m not a fan of most of the collapsible sections in the Help file. I’m always having to click them open because that’s where almost all of the important info lives. Agreed. Scrolling isn't difficult. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted September 17, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Andy Broomell said: 1 hour ago, Andy Broomell said: 2 hours ago, rDesign said: Generally speaking, I’m not a fan of most of the collapsible sections in the Help file. I’m always having to click them open because that’s where almost all of the important info lives. Agreed. Scrolling isn't difficult. Very good points. I'll pass this along to the powers that be to see if we can make some improvements. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Alexandra Duffy Posted September 17, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 17, 2019 Thanks for the feedback, Andy and rDesign. Sorry to let you know, we had so many users tell us that they love the collapsible sections (since the parameters don't get in the way of the overall process, once you are familiar with the parameters), that we plan to keep them in the help for now. I know that doesn't help you, but at least it explains why we have them. Alexandra 1 Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Best 2020 feature so far - Tools>Batch Rename 🎉 Kevin 1 Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Matt Panzer said: Very good points. I'll pass this along to the powers that be to see if we can make some improvements. A help pref? Always open or always closed? Quote Link to comment
Administrator JuanP Posted September 17, 2019 Administrator Share Posted September 17, 2019 13 hours ago, Amorphous - Julian said: The performance of this is atrociously slow in the 3D workflow. Per post below. Speeding this up has to happen NOW. When can we expect this primary function of this tool to improve? PS Please don't ask me to send confidential Project Files to tech support. @Amorphous - JulianI was doing some digging into these issues and the ones that you're referring in your post (above). I found a bug entry about it, I'm increasing the priority level.VB-158507 I will check on any changes in sections and will report back. Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! 2 Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 25 minutes ago, Andy Broomell said: Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! Wait... does this mean that if I switch my callout to point to the same thing but from the opposite direction...I don't have to fiddle around and change the text justification manually any more? Custom for RSI clinics around the globe is going to go down! What are VW thinking? 1 Quote Link to comment
Bret Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Andy Broomell said: Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! Yes - so glad this is back! This genuinely might be one of my top-five favorite updates from the last two versions. Once v2020 can edit callout text again, this will be great. Quote Link to comment
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