What is new in vectorworks 2017

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TRANSFORM THE WORLD.

DESIGN WITH VECTORWORKS.

PRODUCT KEY ArchitectA FundamentalsFLandmarkL SpotlightSDesignerD VisionV Shaded circles indicate that the feature is included in that product.

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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Superior Resource Management Tools 04

Responsive 2D Navigation with

Vectorworks Graphics Module Enhancements 06

Door and Window Styles 07

Master Snap Points 08

Subdivision Enhancements 08

Point Cloud Enhancements 09

Innovative Irrigation Design 12

Structural Members 14

Plant Tool Update 16

Updated Landscape Area Tool 17

Project Sharing Enhancements 18

Data Visualisation in Viewports 20

Slab Drainage Tool 21

bimobject® Plug-In & Content* 22

Interior Elevations 23

Story Support for Symbols

and Plug-In Objects 24

Energos Enhancements 25

Scalable Worksheets 25

SIMPLIFY YOUR PROCESS 02

ENHANCE YOUR WORKFLOW 10

IN THE SPOTLIGHT 26 SIMPLIFIEDVECTORWORKSTOVISIONWORKFLOWS 26

Select Vision Video Source 26

Enhanced Vision Export Data Mapping 26

Unified Symbols for Spotlight and Vision 27

Send to Vision Command 27

Fixture Modes for the Lighting Device 27

DESIGNRIGGING,AV,ANDCRITICALVENUEELEMENTS 28

Replace with Stock Symbols Command 28

Create Seating Section Command 28

Improved Audio Visual Tools 29

New Lighting and Audio Libraries 29

Rope and Stanchion Tool 29

CREATEDETAILEDDOCUMENTATIONANDPAPERWORK 30

Cable Tools 30

Object Component Classing 30

3D Label Legends 31

Lighting Device Focus Point 31

Copy Label Position 31

Dimension Tape Tool 31

Improved Number Instruments Command 31

TABLE OF

CONTENTS

*Available in Vectorworks 2017 Service Pack 1

COORDINATE YOUR PROJECT TEAM 32

INSPIRE YOUR CLIENTS 44

ABOUT VECTORWORKS 58

2017 NEW FEATURE MATRIX 54

SYSTEM RECOMMENDATIONS 59

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IFC4* 34

Revit Import 36

BCF Manager 37

Continuing DXF/DWG Import/Export Enhancements 38

Rasterize PDF 39

SHARE YOUR VISION 40

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Webview and Virtual Reality 42

Vectorworks Cloud Services for Everyone 43

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Renderworks for Everyone 46

Camera Match 48

Import Cinema 4D Textures 49

Improved Texture Mapping 50

Improved CINEMA 4D Export 50

2D Drop Shadows 51

Pen Opacity 52

Image Alpha Transparency Control 53



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SIMPLIFY YOUR

PROCESSYour 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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RESOURCE DATA

PREVIEW

CUSTOM FILE ORGANIZATION

ACCESS MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

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SIMPLIFY YOUR PROCESS

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.

SUPERIOR

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TOOLS

SEARCH BAR

RESOURCE DATA

PREVIEW

CUSTOM FILE ORGANIZATION

ACCESS MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

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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.

RESPONSIVE

2D NAVIGATION


Door HingedEntry wSidelights

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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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SUBDIVISION

ENHANCEMENTS

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.

MASTER

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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.

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.

POINT CLOUD ENHANCEMENTS


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ENHANCE YOUR

WORKFLOWVectorworks 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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IMAGE COURTESY OF ©EM2N, ZURICH.

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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.

INNOVATIVE

IRRIGATION DESIGN

ENHANCE YOUR WORKFLOW

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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.

STRUCTURAL MEMBERS

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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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PLANT TOOL UPDATE


2D POLYLINE

LANDSCAPE AREA

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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.

UPDATED

LANDSCAPE AREA TOOL

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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.

PROJECT SHARING ENHANCEMENTS


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ACCOUNTING

MARKETING

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The new data visualisation feature brings together

Vectorworks’ unparalleled graphical display and information

modelling capabilities with the ability to attach data to

Vectorworks objects. Data visualisation allows you to control

the graphic attributes of smart objects in Vectorworks

based upon data and parametric values, giving you the

ability to visually differentiate between objects based

upon the data/information attached to an object.

DATA VISUALISATIONIN VIEWPORTS


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VECTORWORKS 2017

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.

SLAB DRAINAGETOOL

Nova C Back concave moduleVectorworks®

Unique ref.: N_C_Br_S45C

Brand: Green Furniture Concept

Product family: C-series flexible eco-design benches

Product group: Nova C

Width (mm): 1200

Height (mm): 870

Depth (mm): 640

Edition number: 3

Type: Object (single object)

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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®.


bimobject®

PLUG-IN & CONTENT*


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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.

INTERIORELEVATIONS

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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.

STORY SUPPORT FOR SYMBOLS AND PLUG-IN OBJECTS


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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.

Organise your documentation with customisable worksheets

that conform to tight spaces on a sheet layout.

ENERGOS ENHANCEMENTS

SCALABLE WORKSHEETS

SELECT VISION VIDEO SOURCE

Add dimension to your previsualisations with

improved selection and specification for video

inputs on the screens inside your model.

ENHANCED VISION EXPORT DATA MAPPING

Store channel information the way you want

in Spotlight and send it to the correct location

in Vision with flexible settings that translate

data between Spotlight and Vision software.

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DATA MAPPING

SYMBOL LIBRARY

LIGHTING DEVICE FIXTURE MODES

UNIFIED SYMBOLS FOR SPOTLIGHT AND VISION

Smoothly take your show from design in Vectorworks

to previz in Vision with a unified set of symbols

that make the design process more intuitive.

SEND TO VISION COMMAND

Move from design to previz seamlessly by sending

your fixture data and geometry from Vectorworks

Spotlight to Vision with a simple command.

FIXTURE MODES FOR THE LIGHTING DEVICE

The Edit Vision Data command functionality

has been incorporated into the Lighting Device

object, saving time and reducing errors.

SIMPLIFIED VECTORWORKS

TO VISION WORKFLOWS

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REPLACE WITH STOCK SYMBOL

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REPLACE WITH STOCK SYMBOLS

Finalise your preliminary plans for stage

decks, as well as straight and curved

trusses, by replacing generic symbols with

symbols containing manufacturer-specific

data for more accurate shop orders.

IMPROVED AUDIO VISUAL TOOLS

Vectorworks 2017 presents entertainment

designers with more robust audio visual tools,

including the ability to specify extensive data

about each object, as well as customise the yoke

and spread of the speakers in your design.

CREATE SEATING SECTION COMMAND

Go beyond algorithmic methods of modelling a

venue’s seating. Choose from several types of

standard seating setup methods and then modify

them easily on a seat-by-seat basis to create the

desired arrangement. Finalise your layout with the

creation of aisles and seat and row numbering,

as well as create customisable reports.

DESIGN RIGGING, AUDIO VISUAL, AND CRITICAL VENUE ELEMENTS

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ROPE AND STANCHION TOOL

Quickly insert crowd control elements into your

event designs with this new modelling tool.

NEW LIGHTING AND AUDIO LIBRARIES

With new symbol content from Prolyte, PRG,

and Meyer Sound, as well as 140 Vision

libraries converted for Spotlight, this update

gives lighting professionals hundreds of new

possibilities to expand their design options.

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CABLE TOOLS

Cable and document your show more

efficiently with a new Cable tool set created

by Sam Jones of AutoPlot. With this suite

of tools, designers can plan how cables will

run, keep an accurate count of the number

and types of cables that will be used, and

prepare cabling to make onsite setup easier.

3D LABEL LEGENDS

Explore your designs in any view without

losing the benefits of 2D labels. 3D label

legends can also maintain their own text

formatting, class, and container.

OBJECT COMPONENT CLASSING Create uniform, user-definable class

standards for graphical and visibility control of

components across most Spotlight objects.

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COPY LABEL POSITION

The Eyedropper tool now transfers label

locations between similar Vectorworks

Spotlight objects, saving time and easily

making drawings look consistent.

IMPROVED NUMBER INSTRUMENTS COMMAND

Save time with the new, sophisticated methods in

our already speedy Number Instruments command.

LIGHTING DEVICE FOCUS POINTDesign with precision by automatically and

accurately calculating angles and the throw distance

from the lighting instrument to its focus point.

DIMENSION TAPE TOOL

Easily mark the location when placing your

lighting fixtures with the new Dimension

Tape tool in Vectorworks Spotlight 2017.

CREATING DETAILED

DOCUMENTATION AND PAPERWORK

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COORDINATE WITH YOUR

PROJECT TEAMVectorworks 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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IMAGE COURTESY OF N2M ARCHITEKTEN.

IFC v4

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Vectorworks 2017 moves forward to support the latest

version of the buildingSMART data exchange standard, IFC4,

enabling you to communicate with other IFC4-compatible BIM

platforms for the next generation of open BIM workflows.

IFC4*


BIM

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IFC v4

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Import Revit...

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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.

REVIT IMPORT


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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.

BCF MANAGER

Import with textures..DWG

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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.

CONTINUING

DXF/DWG IMPORT/EXPORTENHANCEMENTS


Export Using Overridden Attributes

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Rasterize the output of your PDFs, avoiding potential

printing and imaging problems while ensuring

the reliability of your design’s appearance.

RASTERIZE PDF


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SHARE YOUR

VISIONGood 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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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.

WEBVIEW AND

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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.

CLOUD SERVICES

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INSPIRE YOUR

CLIENTSWith 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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LIGHTING DESIGN BY NICK WHITEHOUSE, ILLUMINATE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.PHOTO COURTESY OF RALPH LARMANN.

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All Vectorworks software packages now include Renderworks,

the best-in-industry rendering feature set built on the award-

winning Cinema 4D render engine. Renderworks provides the

tools necessary to visualise your work throughout the design

process while producing clear and accurate illustrations.

RENDERWORKSFOR EVERYONE

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IMAGE INSPIRED BY HOLZER KOBLER ARCHITEKTUREN. RENDERING BY LMCAD STUDIO.

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IMAGE INSPIRED BY HOLZER KOBLER ARCHITEKTUREN. RENDERING BY LMCAD STUDIO.

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With the new Camera Match features in Vectorworks 2017,

designers can integrate photos taken on-site with their model,

generating realistic adaptations of those images by matching

the perspective vanishing lines in the photo with those in

the model. From there, you can create custom shadows,

mask out other elements, and tailor the photo to your design

vision without the need for an external editing application.

CAMERA MATCH


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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.

IMPORT

CINEMA 4D TEXTURES

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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.

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.

IMPROVED

TEXTURE MAPPING

IMPROVED

CINEMA 4D EXPORT


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VECTORWORKS 2017

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.

2D DROP SHADOWS

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Fine-tune your line quality with a new pen opacity

attribute to adjust the 2D objects in your design.

PEN OPACITY


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Preserve the alpha channel present in many imported

images without the use of an external photo editor.

IMAGE

ALPHA TRANSPARENCY

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NEW FEATURE MATRIX


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SIMPLIFY YOUR PROCESSResource Manager

Vectorworks Graphics Module for Top/Plan Viewing

Door and Window Styles

Master Snap Points

Subdivision Modelling Enhancements

Point Cloud Enhancements

ENHANCE YOUR WORKFLOWIrrigation Tools

Structural Members

Plant Tool Update

Updated Landscape Area Tool

Project Sharing Enhancements

Data Visualisation in Viewports

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Slab Drainage Tool

BIMobject® 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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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 TEAMIFC 4*

Revit® Import

BCF Manager

DXF/DWG Import/Export Enhancements

Rasterize PDF

2017

NEW FEATURE MATRIX

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SHARE YOUR VISIONWebview and Virtual Reality

Vectorworks Cloud Services for Everyone

INSPIRE YOUR CLIENTSRenderworks 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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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

Graphics*

A dedicated graphics card is required

OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics card

VRAM: 1GB minimum, 2GB-

4GB recommended

Screen Resolution

1440x900 minimum

1920x1080 or higher recommended

* 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.

For the most current and updated technical information, please visit our Knowledgebase at kbase.vectorworks.net. See vectorworks.net/sysreq/ for updated information.

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creation of something that’s truly appreciated and uniquely

positioned to express the best in the built environment.

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