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I think a lot of people on this discussion would agree to this statement, which is sad for us long time users as well as formZ in general. At this point the program's buggy nature and unreliability is overshadowing it's legacy as being the first 3D CAD software on the market. I often wonder what formZ could become if it was acquired by another company and worked in conjunction with non-direct competitors. For example, the Foundry doesn't seem to have a basic solid modeler and a lot of people here praise Modo, but can't make the permanent move. Imagine the two programs working side-by-side similar to Vectorworks/C4D. It's fun to speculate, but daydreams are daydreams for a reason. "It's better to burn out than to fade away."

this has been a problem for years. just save, close, and relaunch is my advice.

I'm giving some thought to Octane and it's standalone application. I don't want to hijack this Lumion thread, but I'm curious to see your work!

Instead of setting Duplicate Offset to 0,0,0 why not just Pick, Copy, Paste?

FormZ's FBX exporter also seems to ignore groups which is equally frustrating.

I've never had a problem with editing objects in a group or even objects in a group within a group. Components, however, are a different story.

This probably isn't the best thread to ask this question, but does anyone know if export FBX with textures still produce duplicate image files? I'm still on 8.6.5.

This has been in my mind for some time... Or, at the very least, consult a marketing agency for re-branding and actually getting the formZ name out there beyond the current user base. Gone are the days of using prestige and namesake for marketing and/or deployment.

100% yes ^^^

it would be nice to see both in action: a paste that keeps the objects coordinate from which is was copied, and a paste that will insert the geometry wherever the user chooses based on the cursor location like in SketchUp.

This would be great. Or perhaps something along the lines of model configurations like in SolidWorks or Rhino would be really beneficial. Duplicating a model to show an exploded version is not ideal in terms of data (or convenience). If you could assign configurations (and name the configurations) it would save a lot of headaches and duplicate geometry.

looks like it's available on mac and windows too...

2013 MacBook Pro (personal) running stronger than a 2019 Dell Precision 7530 (work) here. But I suppose if IT actually purchased something with a price tag things would be different.

I have various keyboard shortcuts (m = move, r = rotate, p = pick, etc.) and I found they work about 60-70% of the time, so your 50/50 isn't far off. If the shortcut doesn't work I'll usually hit the space bar and start typing the tool to pull it up. after this maneuver then the shortcuts work. And yeah, I don't understand two pick tools either. I imagine if you have a frame type selected you should be able to choose Lasso or Polygonal as well within the same tool.

in wireframe mode, go to Edit and make sure "2 Click Face / Outline Selection" is checked.