Are walls ever going to be fixed?

“permanent feature”? or permanent failure?

This and other issues must be resolved. As it is V17 is almost unusable. If it weren’t for the “exterior finish” that allows me to replace one exterior finish with another and be much closer to seeing what you get for stone, vinyl , B&B etc. I would switch back to V16.

I heard a rumor that a patch was in testing last week. The estimated release date has past so maybe it wasn’t successful.

I don’t understand how V17 ever got released and makes me wonder if anyone there ever really draws a complete house in testing. I’m not talking some 1500 sf ranch with an auto and done roof. I am talking a 5000 sf multi store with some tall walls and roof that can only be done in surfaces.  If they had drawn one of these houses it would have been clear that 17 was not ready to ship.

I would be happy to beta test for them. I have drawn 4400 houses in Envisioneer over the last 10 years and have a pretty good idea how this program works. Even better I would invite Nick or Louisa to come to Missouri. I have a spare desk with Envisioneer loaded and a backlog of 27 Houses that need done. In just a few day I bet they would learn a lot about house this program preforms in the wild.

Im with you and hoping every day that today will be the day it gets fixed.

Allan Reetz
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Ill say it again. The idea behind the layers on walls is a good one. As I am estimating a commercial building I like that I can add and remove elements with the layers. Change OSB to Zip, move wall coverage up or down and see what has been done without spending a lot of time manually changing appearance of walls. Working properly I believe it will be a big time saver and help with accuracy. Just need to get things fixed.

I mentioned in another post that I have made all my walls 3 1/2″ wide regardless of the framing member. I draw a lot of lines when connecting interior to exterior walls. I am starting to get a feel for drawing interior to exterior, don’t draw  from exterior to interior with a 90 degree right turn. Most just doesn’t make sense to me. I am with you. Once it crashes the first time things will never be the same.

What bothers me the most is that after all this time if you can finally get ahold of anyone in tec they act like this is all new to them. In a day or two they may say that they were able to recreate the crash. My question is how can you draw a real house and it not crash many times.

And Cadsoft, Louisa, Nic, Kate, someone.  Talk to us. Return our calls. I get it you don’t want to. No one in this office wants to talk to me after tippy toeing around drawing simple walls all day. But don’t ignore us, give up updates and hope that we can get this going and move on to other things like why are advanced members so SLOW.

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