Vectorworks 2016

Words: Dan Kamys

www.vectorworks.net

Vectorworks 2016

The latest release from Vectorworks includes more than 100 updates and features for its award-winning CAD and BIM design solutions, including Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals, and Renderworks. From streamlined project sharing, graphical scripting and point cloud support, to subdivision modeling and a system that measures a design’s energy performance, users will be poised to generate, define, build and explore form and function through enhanced workflows and improved design processes.

To fully support Vectorworks’ customer-centric philosophy, over 70 percent of the 2016 version’s updates and features were born from customer feedback, with the entire research and development efforts for the new release led by the company’s Chief Technology Officer Biplab Sarkar.

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