What has changed for the VectorWorks 2008 product lineup?

Streamlined Interface
Find what you need instantly. Common controls are all within easy reach.

• New heads-up data display
• Object selection highlighting
• New view bar
• Saved tool preferences and settings
• Faster editing with object-sensitive-context menus
• Automatic object centering when editing
• New modern icons
• Printable keyboard shortcut guide

Drawing Improvements
Be amazed at the things you can do with the new features and improvements to VectorWorks 2008’s drafting capabilities.

• Rotatable 2D views
• New rotation modes for 2D tools
• New move-, duplicate-, and distribute-by-points tool
• New 2D/3D duplicate-along-path command
• Over 180 new marker styles
• Specifiable dashed line lengths
• New polygonal (fence) selection mode
• Improved 2D reshape
• New poly and circle clip tool modes
• Improved tile command

More Fluent Referencing Workflows and Improved Library Management
Take advantage of new resources and viewport enhancements that provide more flexibility and freedom when working in a referenced design environment.

• New design layer viewports
• True file referencing
• Other important workgroup referencing improvements
• New CAD manager features
• Resource browser improvements
• Extract and reuse image-based resources
• Improved library management

Enhanced Usability
From 2-way worksheets to importing and exporting AutoCAD 2007 and 2008 files, VectorWorks 2008 cuts out extra steps and saves time.

• Two-way worksheets
• Edit multiple objects in walls simultaneously
• IFC import/export
• Support for SketchUp 6
• Support for AutoCAD 2007/2008
• Easier management of imported AutoCAD layers
• Support for Worksheets in DXF/DWG Export
• Improved viewport workflows
• Support for associative dimensioning
• Improved navigation between viewports and design layers
• Improved navigation between crop and annotation modes
• Control over section viewport resolution
• New viewport flipped text option
• Black-and-white-only settings
• Viewport layer overrides
• Cropped layer links
• Global object editing by criteria
• Saved stacked layer view
• Import drawing structure
• Improved auto save
• New scale-object-by-distance
• Cross-platform workspace format
• Macintosh OSX Spotlight search integration
• New support for bookmarks in PDFs
• Easier to customize title block objects

New and Improved Objects
Try all the new options. VectorWorks 2008 offers improved wall features and new plant and lighting options. Finish your drawings with new high-end furniture, door, window, flooring, appliance, texture, and color libraries.

• Architectural and Interior Design Improvements
• Classable wall components
• Ability to show wall components in section views
• Draw and edit walls in 3D
• Exterior wall dimensioner improvements
• Wall replacement improvements
• Refined create-spaces-from-walls command
• Space object improvements (now GSA compatible)
• Improved 2D stair graphic
• Support for BSI and JIS standard steel shapes
• Herman Miller® furniture collection
• New World Graphics, Inc. furniture library
• Updated Marvin® windows and doors catalog
• New Sub-Zero® and Wolf® appliance libraries
• Updated Forbo® flooring materials
• Landscape Design Improvements
• Improved Plant tool
• Stand-alone plant database
• Support for Geo-Referenced Image files.
• Updated Xfrog® plant libraries
• Unilock® paver hatch patterns
• Entertainment/Lighting Design Improvements
• Two-way Spotlight worksheets
• Improved non-rotating label legends
• Improved scaling of label legends
• Advanced light source for lighting instruments
• Advanced beam geometry
• New lighting, scenic, musical and symbols
• Lighting device position awareness
• Machine Design Improvements
• New 2D and 3D Shaft tool
• Ability to automatically add keyways and center drills to shaft segments
• Ability to add parts lists to drawing borders
• New screw and nut configurations
• New pulley tool
• New spur gear rack tool
• New center drills

Presentation Improvements
Close every deal with a powerful presentation that sets you apart from all the others. VectorWorks 2008 offers Improvements to this crucial capability with a number of high-tech features.

• Unlimited color choices
• Color palettes from Pantone®, Benjamin Moore®, Sherwin-Williams®, Resene®, Rosco, and more
• Object-based opacity on Macintosh and Windows
• Layer opacity and anti-aliasing now also on Windows
• 50% faster hidden line rendering
• Interactive OpenGL shadows
• OpenGL backgrounds
• New OpenGL draw edges option
• Final gather rendering for RenderWorks
• New bump shaders for RenderWorks
• Layered rendering effects in viewports
• New visualization palette for light and camera control
• New grayed layer and class print settings
• New wood textures and image fills from arcitex®
• Support for 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator™

Expanded Customization Options
Make VectorWorks 2008 your own by tailoring it to your needs. CAD managers and third-party developers will appreciate the layout manager improvements.

• Customizable layout manager controls
• Layout manager improvements

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