Chris T Posted May 20, 2001 Share Posted May 20, 2001 IT LOOKS LIKE A GOOD UPDATE BUT NOTHING IS WORKING WITH VW9 & RW9. I NORMALLY WAIT 3 TO 6 MONTHS BEFORE OTHERING A NEW PROGRAMME AND NOW I KNOW WHY NEXT TIME I WILL WAIT TILL YOU FIX THE PROGRAMME. COULD YOU GIVE AN ESTIMATED TIME LINE ON WHEN THE PROGRAMME WILL BE FIX. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH VW9 & RW9 IT IS ALWAYS CRASHING FOR VERY REASON. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF TO REINSTALL VW8. I TRIED POSTING THIS MESSAGE A MONTH AGO. HERE ARE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS: I HAVE INSTALLED VA9 & RW9 ON 2000 & (98 W/ 600 P3 256RAMS 32VRAM), -RUNTIME ERROR WHEN CANCELLED PRINT SHEET, REMOVE SYMBOLS FROM WALL (SINK). -SPLIT TOOL WHEN USING LINE AS A GUIDE. -LACK OF MEMORY WHEN RENDERING VW8.5.2. DWGS. -ARCHED OPENING HAVE A FILL TO IT WHICH CAN'T BE REMOVED SO YOU CAN'T SEE LINE BELOW. -WHEN PRINTING GRAYED LAYERS SPOOLING IS VERY SLOW. -PROPERTY LINE TOOL DIALOG BOX HAS NO BEARING SYMBOLS (DEG. MIN. SEC.) -WHEN MOVING A GROUPED OBJECT A WARNING "A REQUIRED RESOURCE WAS OK" -ALSO THE PROGRAM IS VERY UNSTABLE WHEN RUNNING OF MORE THAT 4 HRS, SOME OF THE PROBLEMS ARE. -WINDOWS IN WALL SOMETIMES DO NOT SHOW WHEN USING "CONVERT COPY TO LINES" COMMAND. -IF I HAVE TWO FILE OPENED SOMETIMES USING THE WINDOWS MENU TO SELECT THE FILE DOESN'T WORK. -DRAWING LABEL TEXT ARE NOT SHOWING ON DWG. BUT OBJECT INFO BOX OK. I KNOW FROM USING VW FOR THE LAST 9 YEARS THAT YOU ALWAYS HAVE A PATCH WHICH WILL FIX THE PROBLEMS. BUT IT IS DIFFICULT WORKING WHEN I HAVE TO RESTART MY COMPUTER 3-4 TIMES IN 4 HRS. WHEN IS THE PATCH GOING TO BE AVAILABLE. PLEASE I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PROGRAMME TO WORK PROPERLY Quote Link to comment
NinjaZX7R Posted May 21, 2001 Share Posted May 21, 2001 Oki-day... As Jar-Jar Binks would have said... Seriously though, this past week had the National AIA Convention here in Denver and we had an extensive chance to meet with the crew from Nemetschek North America, at the show, at a user group reception, and at dinner at a local restaurant nearby... Now, if anybody has been following my posts, or more likely, swapping e-mails with me, I am the first to say that there have been dire problems with our upgrading to Vectorworks Architect 9 and Renderworks 9. As to be expected, I think most of us knew that there would be issues, as any update, especially as extensive as 9, there would be bugs... However, not hearing back from the NNA tech support led us to make assumptions and 'fear the worst'... I however have decent and postive news to report from the convention... As we all know, this has been quite the time for the Minicad team, as they have quickly transformed from the old company, to the new, and along the way encompassing a new internal rendering app, Renderworks, that has allowed us to lessen the financial implications that Artlantis, once held us to. In addition to this, a new marketing direction with the name change, sincere development of app plugins that focus on individual trades (Spotlight, Landmark, Architect, etc.), in addition to the 'slight' redirection associated with a merger/buyout, which of course has all its good and bad, along with the uneasiness of all those on the inside, as well as the outside... Then along comes a couple of 'small' issues, namely Apple finalizing development of perhaps the most important operating system update, regardless of hardware and personal preferences, OS X (ten) - the new Unix-platformed operating system designed for the Macintosh fleet of computers. AND OF COURSE, last but not least... Vectorworks 9... After expressing sincere disappointment with many of those at the helm, I had the pleasure of spending many hours with various people (yes, they are people and not just e-mail addresses or voice mailboxes...) from NNA, and have regained my previous trust in the product and those behind its everyday use and productivity... First off, all wanted to apologize for the lack of feedback to our posts at this site. Honest embarassment was highly evident, but at the same time, I completely understand that there are only so many hours in a day, and the rolling priority has been to fix the problems and make sure that all the newest applications from NNA are to the best of our expectations. Apparently this and a couple other reasons are behind their visible absence, as of late... Most prominently due to the buyout, questions abound of job security led to much 'shuffling' and even those at the call centers seeking employment elsewhere... However the biggest item was moving those most knowledgeable in these areas to other department to help shore-up areas in this time of great development and growth, some to actual tech development, engineering, sales, marketing, etc. - All told, the best way I was able to comprehend, was that "cross-training" has become a key asset, of late, and all hands available have been tending to the wheel most recently, unfortunately leaving the boards a bit bare on the 'official' NNA response side... Again, I pass you all their apologies, and want to let you know that their embarrassment and these apologies were of the utmost sincerity, and not just surface level... Ishmael, Charles, Michael, myself and one of my assistants, sat through much time going over issues that we have been digging through. Having strapped my Ti/PB to my Ninja (motorcycle), I made my way to the convention with problems literally, in-hand... We were able to reproduce many of the problems, or at least discuss (i.e. printing) some of the others. Overall, most of the issues are known, some are just user inexperience (as in, our mess...) or new release changes and differences. In fact, there has been an issue regarding realtime panning, rotating, movement, etc., of rendered items in Open GL... In Renderworks 8.x, if you were in Quickdraw 3D and began screen movement, all items went to wireframe, before returning to the rendered element, upon finishing one's pan, rotation, etc. In Open GL, it was to allow one to make these movements, all the while still being able to see the entire rendered object(s) without losing the screen back to wireframe. This apparently has been an issue, and as Michael was working with my file on my Powerbook, he was befuddled by the fact that he was able to move about my drawing, fully rendered in Open GL, something that NNA have been working on... Murphy's law... Ishmael really helped us with explanations on improved automation features of VWA9 and its setup assistant and how it automatically sets up sheets that are specifically for referencing when cutting sections and pulling details from, specifically how the automatic layer linking feature works and how is goes about assisting in further standardizing layouts, especially amongst an office where projects are shared with multiple people. Overall, the NNA Vectorworks team is honestly on top of (more-than-likely) all of our issues, and I promised to get on the boards as a portion of their voice, to let everybody know that help is on its way, VERY soon... I would repeat the date that was uttered during our meetings and discussions, but as long as we know it is coming, let's just leave it at that; it is a date that is very near, and even I can muddle through most of the bugs right now, knowing with assurance (I physically sat in front of both Mac and Windows machines running the latest Beta...) that many of those bugs will be swatted in the first update; Vectorworks 9.1 (or 9.0.1). Feel free to e-mail me with any questions that you may or may not have, as I will do my best (no way in hell that I could ever fully fill-in for the true masters of the craft...) to give highlights of our conversations, issues and the fixesd that I saw or did not see, etc. In addition to trying to help the Vectorworks guys (and gals, Hi Deidre) out, a sincere thanks for a well presented AIA booth, wonderful reception cocktail, and thank you Stuart for your generous hospitality from myself, Brandy, Matt and Bryan, at the Denver Buffalo Company - it was a great evening, one that will be remembered and hopefully returned in gracis, somewhere down the road. Oh, and next time, don't wait so long before using your 'On-Star' button! Hang in there everybody, the calvary is on its way! ------------------ C M Harada Perspectives Design Group, ink Denver, CO Quote Link to comment
Chris T Posted May 21, 2001 Author Share Posted May 21, 2001 I did not have the time to read your e-mail. Maybe you missed my point. Who about selling something that works? Quote Link to comment
NinjaZX7R Posted May 21, 2001 Share Posted May 21, 2001 Sorry Chris, it was in there... Just a lot of cutting and pasting to try and cover all the boards with my info from this past week's meeting with the Vectorworks employees... There will be an update in about a month. Don't hold me to that date, but the Beta we were using on Friday is nearing completion, but Charles and all the rest of the the software development team want to make sure it is about as clean and fixes all the bugs, as possible. Believe me, I have been giving them grief, so much so that they were frantically hunting me down this past week in order to make sure we actually had time to meet one-on-one, and look at some of our files so that we could really tear into some of the real-world issues that you, us and all the rest, have been having to deal with. Hope that helps, as it has taken a ton of crap off my shoulder and makes me confident once again in their abilities back there on the East Coast... ------------------ C M Harada Perspectives Design Group, ink Denver, CO Quote Link to comment
Chris T Posted May 22, 2001 Author Share Posted May 22, 2001 After going through a nightmare in the last three weeks dealing with a death. VW9 was the first order of business that I dealt with and so I had to let off some steam. Little did I know that when I got to one of my job site there would be more than engouht reasons to let the steam out. I have been using VW since Minicad 4 and love the program, on my small rock (St. Thomas, USVI)I sing the praises of VW. Now that I had the chance to read your frist reply which explained and answered my questions and will be waiting for the patch. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
Kiwi Ross Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 On a slightly bigger rock waaaay down south, I to have been a VW for a few years now. I love the product and love the potential of VW9 and Architect. I have had to many problems with VW9 so have gone back to 8.5.2 and will bide my time - whew - just a few more weeks to wait for the upgarde. Just be patient - From a reasonable contented user. Quote Link to comment
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