VectorWorks will revolutionise the way you work. It’s easier to train new employees and easier for existing users to learn advanced features. Upgrading from older versions is fast and painless. It will streamline your workflow. It’s easier to share drawings with clients and colleagues. VectorWorks 2008 makes it easier to turn your designs into construction documents. You’ll easily create more accurate models and more realistic renderings. All this means you’ll work faster and smarter with VectorWorks 2008.  

VectorWorks Fundamentals (formerly VectorWorks) is a straightforward, yet professional, CAD program. But unlike “lite” CAD programs, it goes way beyond 2D. In addition to precision drafting, you’ll find powerful tools for 3D modelling that can help you create, present and even manufacture your designs. Built-in database and worksheet capabilities help track costs and materials. A host of import/export features makes sharing files easy. You also get free object libraries, as well as a built-in scripting environment that automates routine tasks.

Product Price ex VAT Fundamental 2008 Mac/Win £675 Fundamental 2008 (2nd License) Mac/Win £585 Fundamental/RenderWorks 2008 Mac/Win £949 Fundamental/RenderWorks 2008 (2nd License) Mac/Win £815 Fundamental 2008 upgrade from VectorWorks 12 £218 Fundamental 2008 upgrade from VectorWorks 11 £275 Fundamental 2008 upgrade from VectorWorks 10 £304 Fundamental 2008 upgrade from VectorWorks pre 10 £322 Vectorworks Essentials Training CD £99

VectorWorks Architect offers all the tools and technology commercial and residential designers need in one powerful, cost-effective program. It’s easier to learn and use than most other architectural software applications. Yet it’s capable of creating your most complex designs—from pre-design through construction. You’ll see why VectorWorks Architect is the single, most comprehensive solution for firms that don’t have unlimited IT budgets.

Landscape design software doesn’t have to be too expensive or too difficult to use. A short learning curve, advanced 2D and 3D site design capabilities, automatic schedules and reports, a vast plant database, a suite of architectural building tools, free landscape and site object libraries, plus DXF/DWG and GIS compatibility will help you become more productive, more competitive and more profitable.

For the designer who needs it all, VectorWorks Designer has it all. A brand new offering, VectorWorks Designer combines all the exclusive technology found in VectorWorks Architect, VectorWorks Landmark, VectorWorks Spotlight and VectorWorks Machine Design into in one easy-to-use program. It provides advanced production, presentation and collaboration features that VectorWorks Fundamentals doesn’t. It’s the ideal solution for multi-disciplinary firms and designers who do it.

RenderWorks seamlessly integrates into all VectorWorks solutions to provide you with sophisticated photorealistic and hand-rendered effects. Whatever your objective—realistic or artistic, you can create stunning presentation materials to help you sell your ideas.

Here's just some of what RenderWorks has to offer:

• Radiosity
• New area and line lights
• Volumetric lighting
• Define lights with real-world physical lighting attributes
• Easier light aiming
• New camera object
• Texture compression
• Drag and drop texture improvements
• Quicker access to rendering modes

Renderworks radiosity creates more photorealistic renderings using indirect and soft lighting effects at a fraction of the cost of other visualisation packages. New physical lighting options allow you to define a light object with real world photometric properties. Apple Quartz Imaging offers all Macintosh users better support for large format printers, provides substantial improvements over how objects display on screen and the consistency with which lines print. Easier Light Aiming of directional lights and spotlights to make orienting lights more intuitive and a new Camera object for the control and editing of perspective views are just two of the interface improvements found in Renderworks. Hidden line renderings are much cleaner and more accurate. Now, when you render a building model created from stacked or linked layers, you’ll no longer see a line between the floors.

No other CAD software offers so much for so much less. 

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