topic Re: AC 9 to AC 10...good or bad? in Modeling

AC 9 to AC 10...good or bad?

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:46:14 GMT

I am now working on AC 10. waited long enough.
Working environment is in a first look very different, but logical.
Planorganisation is at first very hard work, but with pleasure.
I had to look very very carefully link functions in navigator.
I can import data from AC9, und I must use lib.from AC9, otherwise big trouble.

I have feeling, I am using now one nice programm which I didnt know.
I will sugest update.
How about your experiance?

Re: AC 9 to AC 10...good or bad?

Anonymous — Sat, 27 May 2006 00:07:38 GMT

Upgraded two days ago and am just now into the major part of the learning curve. I have ported a fairly large custom house without any problems and am working on a larger project from the office. The house was so simple to convert - it was about 50-60% into CDs. that I wonder what all the difficulty in conversion is about. Very smooth and responsive on the Dual 2.0 G5 and quite nice on my G4 1.5 laptop. Did a sheet index with the automatic functions and had all the sheet titles and numbers show up. Very nice. Will be doing a lot more over the holiday.

Lew Bishop
AC 9 & 10
Dual G5 2.0
15" PB 1.5
OS X 10.4.6

Re: AC 9 to AC 10...good or bad?

Anonymous — Sat, 27 May 2006 04:51:43 GMT

Lew...you are such the kid in a candy store!

The large project that Lew is porting over is looking promising. One of the reasons is that the the lbk drawings have not been modified in Plotmaker and pen settings are the same as the pln. We are eager to see if elevations & 3Ds views generate faster.

I have installed AC10 on my MacIntel and even with Rosetta, 3D views and elevations generate quickly. So far no glitches and AC10 seems to run faster than AC9.

Installing was tricky, there is a special wibu for the MacIntel and the install wizard hangs, so a manual install is required. (Not sure where to download this driver because my reseller gave it to me at his AC10 training class.) I uninstalled the driver for the other Macs, but when AC9 did not recognize my key, I had to reinstall that driver, too.

I am looking forward to the Universal version which is supposed to be available in early June.

Re: AC 9 to AC 10...good or bad?

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 27 May 2006 15:41:02 GMT

Mabe wrote:
elevations generate quickly.

And... if like many of us, you generate sun shadows in your elevations... you'll find that they generate CORRECTLY in 10!

A years old bug has been fixed in the new elevation generation improvements ... In 9 and earlier, you might have an elevation where some lights or panels of doors or windows showed as shaded and others didn't, seemingly randomly, and other strange shadow behavior. Often, the odd shadows were so obvious that shadows needed to be turned off to avoid embarasssment. My experience with 10 has been that shadows are perfect now.

Karl

Re: AC 9 to AC 10...good or bad?

Anonymous — Sun, 28 May 2006 09:41:38 GMT

PDF works very well (instead of OLE).
Selection is with shift-key fantastic.
Almost perfect
AC 11 is no more necessary

Re: AC 9 to AC 10...good or bad?

Stephen Dolbee — Sun, 28 May 2006 17:29:10 GMT

Karl wrote:
And... if like many of us, you generate sun shadows in your elevations... you'll find that they generate CORRECTLY in 10!

Great news! Shadows add so much to the elevations. The little glitches in shadows has always been bothersome.

Re: AC 9 to AC 10...good or bad?

Djordje — Sun, 28 May 2006 17:52:51 GMT

Archi wrote:
PDF works very well (instead of OLE).

Still ... why could not OLE be added to the Macs, or kept on Windows???

Yes, I know ...