I’m also on Windows 7 Professional. My Vectorworks icons were generic looking until I right clicked on a Vectorworks file and selected, “Open With”. From here I Browsed to the desired Vectorworks application and the icons immediately updated. Double clicking on Vectorworks files are working fine for me.
A friend of mine showed me this trick the other day. It lets you search an entire web page for a word or phrase that you want. An example of this would be looking through my home page. You don’t want to read the descriptions of 50 manuals to find…
Stacked layers and Unified View allow you see all your layers together, so when you change views, all the layers change. But there are some things to watch for, like the 2D stuff.
Sometimes you find you can’t get the information from your Vectorworks file, or the file might seriously misbehave. I have a possible solution. This works most times, but not always. If this techniques doesn’t work, there is nothing else you can do, you have to go a backup copy of…
You can use the Vectorworks autosave to automatically save your file, or you can use it to create a backup. The backup option is my favorite, because it gives you several versions of the same file. You can set the time interval, and you can set the number of backups…
Removing the link to the new file, keeping all the imported information.
You must back up your computer and keep off site backups. I’ve had loads of clients say, “I have an external HD. I back up when I remember.” The reality is that the interval between backups is the amount of information you are willing to loose. So if you back…
Sometimes when you import a file you get a lot of classes and layers you don’t want.