I'm still using Via cad pro 10, But I worked my way up from 7, 8, shark 9 now viacad pro 10. (please windows don't break my program)
I'm just a basic user
In addition to the above the areas I think could have some work done on them are.
The hatch tool . It hardly ever works.Some times yes but often repeated clicking on the area to hatch just brings up "valid hatch region not found. Making simple boxes sometimes works. Having a separate hatch layer doesn't seem to help.
. I use it at the end if I really have to because it often does something that creates crashes in the program. Doing hatching line by line doesn't seem right to me.
The Architectural tools I thought when I started using shark, It would be a useful set of tools, but for me it crashed so many times I never use them any more. Its quicker to just draw your walls with the line tool.
A suggestion .A diagnostic tool that I have used in other programs that would be very useful is a delete duplicate entities tool.
When I import PDFs or illustrator files, or even just using our own created and saved symbols from concept explorer. It invariably creates or has anywhere from 1 to 7 or 8 duplicate entities per line. Going around and selecting every dam curve and deleting duplicates is so much a waste of time. A delete duplicate entities tool would just be the perfect tool for such situations.
(putting aside if its a import glitch that creates the duplicates or just dirty files to begin with)
With our created symbols it creates bloat files (Viacad creates them so they should be clean) but they often makes a file unstable, so we save first, and bring them in at the end,un group, clean up, and save with a different file name so we can work on the files some more then re add back the symbols at the end again if we have to. I would use or develop symbols a lot more, its a great tool, but with the stability issues i keep it simple. (and it shouldn't create extra lines when you create the symbols anyway.)
Even with the above issues the program has trained me quite well in it's areas of exceptional strengths and certain limitations,
I really like the program, Its just if a program has tools in the tool box they should work reasonably well.
Edited by user Thursday, August 26, 2021 11:18:22 PM(UTC)
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