Nemetschek North America Releases Spanish-Language VectorWorks 2008
Columbia, Maryland (November 7, 2007)--Nemetschek North America announced today the release of four Spanish-language versions of the latest upgrade to their award-winning VectorWorks line of precision design software: Architect, Landmark, Fundamentals, and RenderWorks. VectorWorks 2008 features a new name in addition to new features and enhancements developed with the direct input of VectorWorks users to optimize workflows, enrich presentations, and facilitate collaboration.
VectorWorks 2008 offers interface improvements such as a new heads-up Data Display bar and a new View bar which consolidates often-used viewing and organizational controls and places them within easy reach. The program has been streamlined with fewer mouse clicks and many new batch-editing capabilities. In addition, in Architect and Landmark, a new Rotate Plan command makes it easy to work on parts of a design that lie at odd angles, while still drawing orthogonally.
For higher-quality presentations, VectorWorks 2008 features unlimited color choices and pre-configured color swatches from Pantone®, Benjamin Moore®, Sherwin-Williams®, and more. Users will also find object-by-object opacity control; improvements to dashed lines; new end marker styles; and new symbol libraries. VectorWorks' add-on program, RenderWorks, offers improved OpenGL rendering, final gather rendering technology, and new texture libraries and bump shaders.
New CAD Manager capabilities make it easier to set up, back up, share, and control project files, content libraries, and user preferences, as well as easily configure new computers with any firm's CAD standards. Navigating between library files and documents is easier, and users can save changes in their resources directly back to office-standard libraries with a single click.
In both 2D and 3D, VectorWorks Architect and Landmark 2008 allow repeated use and adaptation of work to create drawings quickly and efficiently. Improved viewports, classable wall components, and the ability to show wall components in section view make it easy to create framing, structural, and finish plans, as well as detailed wall section drawings from the same set of walls. Also, two-way worksheets allow for updating drawings through the schedules and reports.
New workgroup capabilities make it easier to break apart and reassemble complex projects, while keeping files sizes small-reducing clutter and eliminating naming conflicts. In Architect and Landmark, PDF and image files can be directly referenced using new design layer viewports. For those working on the leading edge of digital practice, VectorWorks Architect's IFC 2x3 translator fluidly moves BIM models among other design, analysis, and construction platforms. VectorWorks 2008's new import/export options include a host of DWG translator improvements, support for AutoCAD® 2007/2008 and, in Architect and Landmark, SketchUp® 6.x files, and the ability to import geo-referenced image files.
"VectorWorks 2008 heralds a new year of groundbreaking changes for the VectorWorks line of products, and a whole new collection of cutting-edge technology for our users," says Paul Pharr, Nemetschek North America's chief technology officer. "As always, we've listened to customer feedback, so users will see many requests incorporated in the latest version of VectorWorks."
For a product-by-product breakdown of all the new VectorWorks 2008 improvements, and to see some of these features in action, visit www.nemetschek.net/espanol. VectorWorks Designer, Spotlight, and Machine Design 2008 are available in English-language versions only at this time, though translations to Spanish are in the works.
Nemetschek North America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Nemetschek Group. A global leader in design technologies, Nemetschek North America has been developing CAD software for the AEC, entertainment, landscape design, and manufacturing fields since 1985. VectorWorks, its flagship product, is one of the world's best-selling cross-platform CAD applications. An all-in-one solution that's easier to learn and use and more cost-effective than most other CAD programs, VectorWorks is ideal for firms that don't have unlimited IT budgets. For more information, visit http://www.nemetschek.net/espanol
For information contact:
Terri Nyman
(410)290-5114, x719
