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DESIGN WITH VECTORWORKS.
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You see the world differently. All designers do. You design to inspire, to evoke emotion, and to create unmatched experiences. Vectorworks 2017 presents a purpose-built set of tools to realise those visions. It’s in tune with the designer’s eye. The latest release of the Vectorworks line of design solutions delivers a robust suite of capabilities that will simplify your process and enhance your workflows. Multiuser workflow enhancements include support for using cloud storage apps and object level check out. And virtual reality walk-throughs of your model allow clients, and your team, to experience your designs in a whole new light. With Vectorworks 2017, designers are poised to transform the world like never before.
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F Fundamentals
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Superior Resource Management Tools
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Innovative Irrigation Design
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Structural Members
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SIMPLIFIED VECTORWORKS TO VISION WORKFLOWS
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Plant Tool Update
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Select Vision Video Source
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Updated Landscape Area Tool
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Enhanced Vision Export Data Mapping
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Project Sharing Enhancements
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Unified Symbols for Spotlight and Vision
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Data Visualisation in Viewports
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Send to Vision Command
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Slab Drainage Tool
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Fixture Modes for the Lighting Device
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bimobject® Plug-In & Content*
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Interior Elevations
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DESIGN RIGGING, AV, AND CRITICAL VENUE ELEMENTS
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Replace with Stock Symbols Command
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Responsive 2D Navigation with Vectorworks Graphics Module Enhancements
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Door and Window Styles
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Master Snap Points
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Subdivision Enhancements
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Point Cloud Enhancements
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Story Support for Symbols and Plug-In Objects
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Create Seating Section Command
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Energos Enhancements
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Improved Audio Visual Tools
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Scalable Worksheets
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New Lighting and Audio Libraries
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Rope and Stanchion Tool
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CREATE DETAILED DOCUMENTATION AND PAPERWORK
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Cable Tools
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Object Component Classing
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3D Label Legends
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Lighting Device Focus Point
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Copy Label Position
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Dimension Tape Tool
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Improved Number Instruments Command
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*Available in Vectorworks 2017 Service Pack 1
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YOUR PROJECT TEAM
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YOUR VISION
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YOUR CLIENTS
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IFC4*
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Webview and Virtual Reality
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Renderworks for Everyone
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Revit Import
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Vectorworks Cloud Services for Everyone
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Camera Match
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BCF Manager
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Import Cinema 4D Textures
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Continuing DXF/DWG Import/Export Enhancements
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Improved Texture Mapping
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Rasterize PDF
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Improved CINEMA 4D Export
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2D Drop Shadows
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Pen Opacity
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Image Alpha Transparency Control
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*Available in Vectorworks 2017 Service Pack 1
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NEW FEATURE MATRIX 54 ABOUT
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RECOMMENDATIONS
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SIMPLIFY YOUR
PROCESS Your time is valuable — and Vectorworks software enables you to spend more of that time designing. The Vectorworks 2017 family of software empowers you to work faster and more efficiently.
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SUPERIOR
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TOOLS As designers, content and resources like hatches, line types, worksheets, wall styles, and render styles are critically important to developing ideas and even specifying materials. That’s why Vectorworks software’s Resource Manager puts the ability to create, find, edit, and apply desired resources to your designs at your fingertips. Featuring direct browsing of resources from multiple content locations, the new Resource Manager also includes all the Vectorworks Service Select online subscription libraries. Easily find what you need with powerful search and filtering, attach keyword tags, and access your resources directly from Vectorworks software’s parametric tools. 4
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ACCESS MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
CUSTOM FILE ORGANIZATION
SEARCH BAR
PREVIEW
RESOURCE DATA
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RESPONSIVE
2D NAVIGATION With Vectorworks Graphics Module Enhancements
No matter the size of your model, your plan views will be more responsive with smoother navigation as you pan and zoom.
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DOOR AND WINDOW
STYLES Simplify your BIM workflows and make sweeping changes throughout your building model with ease. With new Door and Window styles, architects gain flexibility in their design processes, modifying the style, data, and geometry of the doors and windows in their models and producing accurate worksheets in a few quick clicks.
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SNAP POINTS In complex designs, snapping to the correct point can prove difficult. With Vectorworks 2017, designers can now designate and use priority snaps, allowing them to model with greater ease and accuracy.
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Vectorworks 2017 improves upon the subdivision modelling tools introduced in the 2016 line of our software, giving you the ability to transform existing shapes into subdivision objects and continue development with new capabilities added to the Edit Subdivision tool.
POINTENHANCEMENTS CLOUD In our latest release, Vectorworks’ point cloud support gains even greater functionality with the ability to isolate points to target a subset of data within a single point cloud, as well as more options for importing your point cloud files.
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WORKFLOW Vectorworks 2017 gives you more resources than ever to optimise your workflow. Whether you’re creating a BIM model for your next inspired project, lighting a Broadway production, or designing green space, Vectorworks software offers features and improvements that are designed with you and your workflows in mind.
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INNOVATIVE
IRRIGATION DESIGN Planning for a site’s irrigation involves considerations and calculations related to both its physical features and resource availability. Vectorworks Landmark software meets all of these needs with innovative irrigation design tools. Create zones of similar watering needs with the new Hydrozone tool and then use built-in worksheets to analyse for water efficiency, which makes satisfying a site’s water budget allowance easier than ever. Whether specifying lateral and main piping, sprinkler heads, drip systems, valves, controllers, or other system components, the automated and manual placement methods are designed to meet industry standards while giving professionals the flexibility to design, document, and estimate proposed and as-built systems efficiently.
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STRUCTURAL MEMBERS The new Structural Member tool allows architects to model and explore complex structures that are more integrated into their designs, better control the graphic representation of structural elements, and gain greater automation for efficient time management.
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PLANT TOOL UPDATE Our 2017 release provides even more customisation options for site designers who rely on one of Vectorworks Landmark’s most used tools: the Plant tool. New placement functionality allows you to arrange plants by approximate spacing as well as count. Hedge placement has also become more intuitive with options for adding multiple rows of hedges. Plant labelling has expanded in flexibility with the new option to label directly within the plant group, making designers’ wishes to create planting plans without leader lines come true. For designers who enjoy schematic plant design with general plant 3D massing forms, the plant object now provides the built-in feature to create 3D plant forms relative to type, height, and spread. Whether the 3D forms assist in site shade studies, overall canopy planning, or for exchanging simple 3D forms for BIM collaboration, the plant object is ready to meet the growing needs of site designers.
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LANDSCAPE AREA
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LANDSCAPE AREA TOOL With savable settings and 3D plant representations, the Landscape Area tool offers a more efficient, customisable workflow when designers seek to replicate styles and settings for landscape areas from one project to another, or from a library into the user’s current working file. 17
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PROJECT SHARING ENHANCEMENTS You asked and we listened. In Vectorworks 2017, Project Sharing frees designers to work anywhere at any time with cloud integration that allows you to save your files in Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and Box. It also offers more options to customise your multiuser workflows with the option to check out individual objects or layers.
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SLAB DRAINAGE TOOL Create sloped slabs and flat roofs featuring tapered components with the intelligence and automation expected of Vectorworks software’s superior BIM tools. The slab drainage tool will help inform your design decisions, document all essential data, and allow for easy change management across your design.
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Nova C Back concave module Vectorworks® Unique ref.:
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Brand:
Green Furniture Concept
Product family:
C-series flexible
Product group:
Nova C
eco-design benches
Width (mm):
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Height (mm):
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Depth (mm):
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Edition number: 3 Type:
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Enrich your building information models with direct access to a growing library of manufacturer-specific content within Vectorworks software, including major global BIM content providers like bimobject®. *Available in Vectorworks 2017 Service Pack 1
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INTERIOR ELEVATIONS Boost your productivity and automatically create multiple Interior Elevation viewports, bound by wall objects, that save time and take advantage of automation to coordinate drawings.
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STORY SUPPORT FOR SYMBOLS AND PLUG-IN OBJECTS Architectural project organisation thrives with Vectorworks software’s building stories and level types. In 2017, we’ve added an additional level of organisation by enabling parametric objects to be story-aware. As you design with parametric objects, they will automatically associate with the elevation of the stories and levels where they’re placed.
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SCALABLE WORKSHEETS Organise your documentation with customisable worksheets that conform to tight spaces on a sheet layout.
ENERGOS ENHANCEMENTS In Vectorworks 2017, Energos’ sustainable design capabilities have been updated, giving you the workflows you need to make vital decisions about the energy consumption of your design.
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SELECT VISION VIDEO SOURCE
ENHANCED VISION EXPORT DATA MAPPING
Add dimension to your previsualisations with
Store channel information the way you want
improved selection and specification for video
in Spotlight and send it to the correct location
inputs on the screens inside your model.
in Vision with flexible settings that translate data between Spotlight and Vision software.
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LIGHTING DEVICE FIXTURE MODES SYMBOL LIBRARY
SEND TO VISION
DATA MAPPING
UNIFIED SYMBOLS FOR SPOTLIGHT AND VISION
SEND TO VISION COMMAND
FIXTURE MODES FOR THE LIGHTING DEVICE
Smoothly take your show from design in Vectorworks
Move from design to previz seamlessly by sending
The Edit Vision Data command functionality
to previz in Vision with a unified set of symbols
your fixture data and geometry from Vectorworks
has been incorporated into the Lighting Device
that make the design process more intuitive.
Spotlight to Vision with a simple command.
object, saving time and reducing errors.
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CREATE SEATING SECTION COMMAND
Finalise your preliminary plans for stage
Go beyond algorithmic methods of modelling a
Vectorworks 2017 presents entertainment
decks, as well as straight and curved
venue’s seating. Choose from several types of
designers with more robust audio visual tools,
trusses, by replacing generic symbols with
standard seating setup methods and then modify
including the ability to specify extensive data
symbols containing manufacturer-specific
them easily on a seat-by-seat basis to create the
about each object, as well as customise the yoke
data for more accurate shop orders.
desired arrangement. Finalise your layout with the
and spread of the speakers in your design.
creation of aisles and seat and row numbering, as well as create customisable reports.
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NEW LIGHTING AND AUDIO LIBRARIES
ROPE AND STANCHION TOOL
With new symbol content from Prolyte, PRG,
Quickly insert crowd control elements into your
and Meyer Sound, as well as 140 Vision
event designs with this new modelling tool.
libraries converted for Spotlight, this update gives lighting professionals hundreds of new possibilities to expand their design options.
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Cable and document your show more
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efficiently with a new Cable tool set created
losing the benefits of 2D labels. 3D label
by Sam Jones of AutoPlot. With this suite
legends can also maintain their own text
of tools, designers can plan how cables will
formatting, class, and container.
run, keep an accurate count of the number and types of cables that will be used, and prepare cabling to make onsite setup easier.
OBJECT COMPONENT CLASSING Create uniform, user-definable class standards for graphical and visibility control of components across most Spotlight objects.
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The Eyedropper tool now transfers label
Easily mark the location when placing your
locations between similar Vectorworks
lighting fixtures with the new Dimension
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Spotlight objects, saving time and easily
Tape tool in Vectorworks Spotlight 2017.
our already speedy Number Instruments command.
making drawings look consistent.
LIGHTING DEVICE FOCUS POINT Design with precision by automatically and accurately calculating angles and the throw distance from the lighting instrument to its focus point.
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PROJECT TEAM Vectorworks 2017 is engineered to facilitate your collaborative workflows. Design, document, and exchange your models within your firm and beyond with Revit import capabilities, IFC4 support, a new BCF manager, and Raster PDF capabilities.
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REVIT IMPORT Architects and landscape professionals must be prepared to exchange data with other BIM collaborators. In Vectorworks software, you can now import Revit files directly, allowing you to take advantage of manufacturer-specific objects that are available as Revit families to enhance a Vectorworks library or to collaborate more effectively with other designers and contractors throughout the lifecycle of your project.
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BCF MANAGER As part of our continued support of open BIM workflows, the BCF manager equips project teams to share issues or clashes that have been discovered directly in Vectorworks software. You can now export BCF files that can contain revisions, notes, or new issues.
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DXF/DWG IMPORT/EXPORT ENHANCEMENTS
Vectorworks 2017 offers the most up-to-date import and export for handling the attributes of DXF/DWG files. With 2017, your exports can retain the appearance of your customised viewports and import textures that are part of a DWG file. 38
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RASTERIZE PDF Rasterize the output of your PDFs, avoiding potential printing and imaging problems while ensuring the reliability of your design’s appearance. 39
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VISION Good communication is key to your design process, and with Vectorworks 2017, you have more options than ever to share your ideas and inspiration.
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WEBVIEW AND
VIRTUAL REALITY Easily share your designs with current clients and collaborators using Vectorworks software’s immersive webviewing and virtual reality features. Generate a link that allows anyone, anywhere, to view your model in 3D on any device.
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CLOUD SERVICES
FOR EVERYONE Vectorworks is committed to communication and collaboration. In Vectorworks 2017, our Cloud Services environment will be openly available to everyone, giving you the ability to easily share files between team members and providing a simple interface for collaborators and clients to tour your models using our mobile app, Vectorworks Nomad.
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CLIENTS With stunning, photorealistic renderings, designers can showcase material selection options, make effective lighting decisions, conduct solar studies, and generate high-quality documentation and presentation boards. With Vectorworks 2017, you have all the tools necessary to wow your clients.
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RENDERWORKS FOR EVERYONE All Vectorworks software packages now include Renderworks, the best-in-industry rendering feature set built on the awardwinning Cinema 4D render engine. Renderworks provides the tools necessary to visualise your work throughout the design process while producing clear and accurate illustrations.
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CINEMA 4D TEXTURES Import Cinema 4D’s vast archive of textures and materials directly into Vectorworks software, expanding your design options with a larger library and improving the realism of geometry as well as building elements.
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IMPROVED
TEXTURE MAPPING The power of Renderworks texture mapping has been extended to plug-in objects and wall components, so you can define, modify, and control the precise looks that add detail to your design.
IMPROVED
CINEMA 4D EXPORT Create stunning renderings with less work and improved support for file exchange between Vectorworks and Cinema 4D that allows designers to organise exported models more efficiently.
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2D DROP SHADOWS Add simulated depth to your 2D presentations with Vectorworks 2017’s ability to add drop shadows to chosen elements of your project — all without leaving your Vectorworks workspace. 51
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ALPHA TRANSPARENCY CONTROL Preserve the alpha channel present in many imported images without the use of an external photo editor.
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NEW FEATURE MATRIX SIMPLIFY YOUR PROCESS Resource Manager Vectorworks Graphics Module for Top/Plan Viewing Door and Window Styles Master Snap Points Subdivision Modelling Enhancements Point Cloud Enhancements
ENHANCE YOUR WORKFLOW Irrigation Tools Structural Members Plant Tool Update Updated Landscape Area Tool Project Sharing Enhancements Data Visualisation in Viewports
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Slab Drainage Tool BIMobjectÂŽ Plug-in and Content* Interior Elevations Story Support for Symbols and Plug-in Objects Energos Enhancements Scalable Worksheets Select Vision Video Source Enhanced Vision Export Data Mapping Unified symbols for Spotlight and Vision Send to Vision Command Fixture Modes for the Lighting Device Replace with Stock Symbols Command Create Seating Section Command Improved Audio Visual Tools New Lighting and Audio Libraries Rope and Stanchion Tool
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NEW FEATURE MATRIX Cable Tools 3D Label Legends Object Component Classing Copy Label Position Lighting Device Focus Point Dimension Tape Tool Improved Number Instruments Command
COORDINATE WITH YOUR PROJECT TEAM IFC 4* Revit® Import BCF Manager DXF/DWG Import/Export Enhancements Rasterize PDF
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SHARE YOUR VISION Webview and Virtual Reality Vectorworks Cloud Services for Everyone
INSPIRE YOUR CLIENTS Renderworks for Everyone Camera Match Import Cinema 4D Textures Improved Cinema 4D Export Improved Texture Mapping 2D Drop Shadows Pen Opacity Image Alpha Transparency Control
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RECOMMENDATIONS Mac OS X 10.10 Mac OS X 10.11 Windows 7 SP 1 (64-bit) Windows 8 (64-bit) Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Windows 10 (64-bit) 64-bit Intel Core i5 (or AMD equivalent) or better RAM 4GB minimum 8GB recommended 8GB-16GB recommended for large files and complex renderings
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* Several Vectorworks features have placed higher demands on graphic hardware. Additionally, the performance and quality of the graphics provided by the Vectorworks Graphics Module depend directly on the speed, memory, and supported extensions of the graphics card. These new features have the potential to provide a very fast and fluid experience if used on capable hardware, or a noticeably slower experience if used on older or incompatible hardware. Graphic cards should support at a minimum OpenGL version 2.1; cards not meeting this recommendation will have limited functionality and poor performance, particularly when rendering in OpenGL mode. In general, the more powerful your video card is, the better your Vectorworks experience will be.
Vectorworks cares about design. Since 1985, we have
For the most current and updated technical information, please visit our Knowledgebase at kbase.vectorworks.net. See vectorworks.net/sysreq/ for updated information.
communicate effectively, and realise their vision.
served the architecture, landscape, and entertainment industries, drawing inspiration from the world around us and encouraging more than 650,000 designers who use our software to create experiences that transform the world. Our commitment to develop the world’s best cross-platform design software has taught us a simple truth: great design begins with the inspiration of the designer. Vectorworks supports that inspiration by guiding the exploration of discovery and finding creative solutions. We provide powerful tools to help designers capture ideas, nurture innovation,
We serve those who desire to create experiences that are memorable and build things that truly matter. We recognise
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A dedicated graphics card is required
explore the unexpected, while fully satisfying the demands
OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics card
of an increasingly complex world. We acknowledge the
VRAM: 1GB minimum, 2GB-
value of a designer’s dream and strive to facilitate the
4GB recommended
creation of something that’s truly appreciated and uniquely positioned to express the best in the built environment.
Screen Resolution 1440x900 minimum 1920x1080 or higher recommended
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