This makes it slower and very frustrating to use. This used to kick in anytime you dragged off the screen, but now it only works when you drag to a very precise location near the edge of (but still ON) the screen. They messed up the automatic-pan-while-dragging feature. In version 9, it's more cumbersome to use, requiring either contortions or two-hand operation, and it's also more difficult to fix. It had a poor interface in version 8, but I was able to revise that with a macro handler so that it actually worked pretty well. They made the interface to the Nudge feature even slower. VectorWorks, with all of its other tricks, doesn't need this tool as much as AutoCad does, but there are many cases where Extend saves a lot of time over any other approach. The reason why I don't draw with 9.5 is that speed is important to me, and most of the version 9 changes in drawing tools and commands result in slowing down the drawing process.
#REASON 9.5 UPGRADE UPGRADE#
The availability of the Viewer is one of the best reasons to buy the upgrade to version 9.
#REASON 9.5 UPGRADE FREE#
The free Vector Works Viewer is intentionally hobbled so that it only reads v9 files. (But note that printing in 9.5 can actually be glitchier than in 8.5 if you don't check the 2 new boxes at the bottom of the "Print" window.) And I often convert a finished file to v9 and email that to people instead of a DWG file, so they can read it or print it as it should look, not as it looks with the limitations of AutoCad. So for me it's worth it to have 9.5 just for printing and importing/exporting. There's a higher level of precision and therefore better printing and exporting results in 9.5, as others have pointed out, and 9.5 can read and write AutoCad 2000 files, and it has a print scaling feature that does reduced/enlarged printing.
But the upgrade only cost me $200, and I think it was well worth the price for other reasons. I'm still drawing with 8.5 even though I bought the upgrade to 9. Those are the big three, I'll think about it and post more as they come to me.
Nurbs have now become essential for me in creating architectural visualizations. By using nurbs, and the extrude along path command I was easily able to make these landscape elements follow each other perfectly. NurbsAt first these seemed like a luxury, but I reciently did a 3-D model of a church addition that has a sloping sight with sidewalks, curbs and streets. The origion is seperate from the printable areaWe had another problem where if we moved the printable area of a drawing, all of our work group referecnces would become mis aligned with the contents of the drawing, this has also been fixed in 9.5.2 Now that accuracy is higher and the problem has gone away It was fairly random and had to do with the internal accuracy of the program. For instance a 4' x 4' square would become 3' 11.99999". Higher precisionWe used to have a problem with objects becoming slightly out of scale.
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