FAQ

Visibility tool improvements – This will allow you to see all objects by temporarily enabling all the classes.

Elevation Benchmark tool – You can now create elevation benchmarks that read the true elevation of parts of your building, allowing you to analyse these objects in relation to the other objects in the layer, or in relation to objects in the entire project.`

Modify By Record command – This will be a dramatic increase in productivity when dealing with large complex sites that have many contours.

Simplify Polygon Command – This will dramatically improve productivity when dealing with imported polygons (especially site contours) by dramatically reducing the number of vertices on a polygon, while maintaining the polygon shape.

Referencing DWG/DXF drawings – Instead of importing DXF/DWG files, they can now be referenced. When the the file is updated, a single click will update the referenced file in your drawing.

Publish – This command is designed to print, export to PDF, export to DXF/DWG, or export to DWF. All these options are in a single command, with a single interface.

Individual Editing of Gable End Walls – This version of Vectorworks allows you to change the gable end walls under individual gables. the benefits of this is that some gable end walls are hard to create on your own, but others are not needed.

Realistic Textures (Displacement mapping) – Textures have a much more realistic display for water and bumpy textures.

Better working in rotated views – The rotated plan view has been very productive when you are working with plans that are not orthogonal. But there has been a challenge when you want to return to the rotated view, or you want to see a standard view relative to the…

Better method for creating section viewports – The Clip Cube makes editing in 3d much easier, and the ability to create a section viewport from any side of the clip cube is an extremely productive way to create your section viewports. This really speeds up creation of viewports and is…