There are core features that go into the Fundamentals product and then a sprinkling of vertical-specific enhancements.Ĭache enhancements to the Vectorworks Graphics Module (VGM) could see load times boosted by 5x There are three core versions of Vectorworks, which are pretty selfexplanatory: Architect, Landmark (landscape) and Entertainment (stages and sets). Perhaps, during a pandemic, focussing on what users are asking for, rather than pushing boundaries is the right way to go. Vectorworks 2021 seems like a much more pared-back release, not so much with the big new all-singing and dancing features, but lots of crowd-pleasing workflow enhancements. In the past two years, Vectorworks has added some sizable chunks of functionality to its yearly releases – GIS integration, walkthrough animations, historybased solid modelling, sub-D surfaces. As a Nemetschek brand, it seems to be blazing its own trail. Vectorworks has continued to grow to over 685,000 customers in architecture, landscape and entertainment (stage and set design).
Roll forward 20 years and Vectorworks is still available on PC and Mac and despite Nemetschek buying Graphisoft in 2006 and now owning three distinct BIM brands.
Nemetschek acquired Diehl Graphisoft in 2000 and Mac users were worried the Mac would be dumped. In 1999, the first release of Vectorworks replaced MiniCAD. The year Diehl launched MiniCAD, AutoCAD was at v 2.1 and Keith Bentley had just started Bentley Systems.
VECTORWORKS BIM SOFTWARE
Looking back at the history of Vectorworks, it started in 1985 as Diehl Graphsoft which produced MiniCAD, which became the bestselling CAD software on the Mac. Sure, there might have been various name changes, acquisitions, operating system changes, code-base swaps, moves from 2D to 3D to BIM… but it just occurred to me that our little BIM bubble of the software world is incredibly stable we all benefit from a lot of software development heritage These firms have all survived as brands and thrived through thick and thin from the early 1980s. In the AEC BIM-space we are lucky to havereally mature players: Autodesk, Graphisoft, Allplan, Bentley Systems and Vectorworks. Software and CAD brands are about evolution with the occasional revolution.
VECTORWORKS BIM UPDATE
In September, Vectorworks released this year’s major update to its suite of BIM, landscaping and stage set design solutions: Vectorworks 2021: Architect, Landmark and Entertainment.
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