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Each view can have an independent scale, orientation, rendering, layer, and class visibility setting.

Viewports is a page-layout feature that lets you create sheets showing multiple views of the same model or drawing. VectorWorks 2008 makes it easier to export these project resources back to the standard office-wide library file where all workgroup members will have access to them. Also, once a project is underway, the additional resources such as symbols and library objects that are inevitably created specifically for that project are initially stored only in the specific project file.
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This makes it easier to upgrade or add CAD stations to your office. VectorWorks 2008 has made workgroup management much easier by allowing you to manage content, resources, and preferences in external custom folders where managers can control where object libraries, symbols, details, textures, and hatches are stored, and who has access to them. Nemetschek is doing a good job of keeping VectorWorks updated to work with the latest versions of AutoCAD. VectorWorks 2008 adds import and export capabilities for the popular AutoCAD format-the industry standard-through the 2007/2008 formats. If your version of VectorWorks includes RenderWorks, you’ll find that improved bump shaders (which simulate textures) give a more realistic effect to textured surfaces. This allows for varying degrees of transparency for your drawing objects, which is very handy for presentations.
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This new version also gives you full control over opacity on an object-by-object basis. In addition, VectorWorks 2008 includes color swatches from Pantone, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams, and other paint vendors, which is convenient for architects and a big improvement over the previous versions when it comes to producing presentation drawings. You can now choose from an unlimited number of colors. Non-rendered 2-D and 3-D elements in VectorWorks 2008 are no longer limited to the Mac’s system colors (or my favorite technique: mixing colors using the foregrounds and backgrounds in fill patterns). You can configure the floating data bar so that it’s visible all of the time, none of the time, or only when you call for it, and it can provide various levels of basic or detailed information. This allows you to focus on your drawing without having to refer back to a palette or display on another part of the interface.

In a wide-reaching interface overhaul, VectorWorks 2008 debuts a new floating data bar (also known as a heads-up display) that shows the dimensions and angles of your drawing in a floating display that moves with your cursor. A VectorWorks screen showing three externally referenced files. VectorWorks Designer combines all of the modules into one huge package. RenderWorks, a high-end rendering module, can be added to and used with any VectorWorks module. VectorWorks Machine Design is aimed at mechanical engineers. VectorWorks Spotlight targets the entertainment industry, including theater, event planning, and exhibition. VectorWorks Landmark is designed for landscape architecture and planning. VectorWorks Architect, aimed at architects and similar design professionals, has loads of specialized tools such as space planning, door, wall, and window tools. VectorWorks Fundamentals includes most of the program’s core 2-D and 3-D CAD functions, but leaves out advanced rendering capabilities as well as many profession-specific features. The slate of professionally targeted modules in the latest version is the same as in years past, but for each module, numerous enhancements make the program more user-friendly and powerful.
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VectorWorks comprises six modules aimed at specific types of professional users. VectorWorks 2008 improves on and expands this already impressive array of capabilities. Combining a powerful 2-D drafting environment with integrated 3-D modeling functionality, VectorWorks can take your project from planning to simple drafting to complex, photorealistic rendering.

VectorWorks has been one of the premiere CAD (computer-aided design) programs for the Macintosh for many years.
