The program boasts the latest design and CAD technologies, to speed up the drafting process without giving up drawing accuracy or precision.įeatures of the program include intuitive wall-drawing tools and a vast array of all the essential symbols for architectural drafting.
The software has tons of functionality and useful tools for drafting but tries to stick to the fundamentals to keep things streamlined, efficient, and most importantly, affordable. This program’s main market is designers, architects, interior designers, real estate agents, and building construction professionals. Taking all of this into consideration, I think most of us will agree that Vectorworks isn’t exactly the cheapest program on the market.ĭraft It Architectural Software is a robust and intuitive 2D CAD program for architectural users and construction industry professionals. Network licenses are also offered with pricing that depends on the number of users, and there are also maintenance fees that come with optional upkeep packages that can be availed by users. But based on prices we’ve procured from a reseller, you’ll be looking at $190-$262 a month for monthly subscriptions, $1900-$2620 per year for yearly subscriptions, and $2,045-$3,733 for single purchase licenses. There are various distributors and official resellers stationed around the globe. As much as Vectorworks offers to its users, we really do have to take into consideration how much the program costs.
This way of editing is not unique to vectorworks - it's also used in illustrator.We’ve already delved deep into Vectorworks pricing. With an element info box like this, you can adjust the size from 25x25 to 100x50 in one go, rather than having to adjust all elements separately. For example if you have a group for a piece of timber in a detail, it will usually contain lines and a fill, to adjust this to be a different size will be take several actions. You can also use the XY input field to compute basic calculation for example, to divide a side by 2 = just put /2 after the measurement and you have a shape exactly half the length.Īnd The same editable properties are true in VW if you highlight a polyline, a group, a line or a rectangle as shown here, and yes, of course there are work arounds for measuring the object, but this is just SO useful.
The anchor point reference is also very useful, you can use it to expand a shape around it's center, or a side. It is just a different program and has different ways of achieving the same things. So my point is: these things can be done easily in ArchiCAD. With the Tracker input it is very easy to click any of the edges of the rectangle, choose the Offest Edge command of the Pet Palette and offset it to the desired value. First click the lower left corner of the Rectangle to Measure from, then hover your cursor above the upper left corner of the rectangle and the Measure Tool will show you the height of the rectangle hover your cursor above the lower right corner of the rectangle and the Measure Tool will show you the width of the rectangle.
Then hover your cursor to the Upper right corner and the Coordinate Box will show the width and height of the rectangle. Hover your cursor above the lower left corner of the rectangle and press ALT+SHIFT to move the User Origin to the lower left corner of the rectangle. These things are possible to do, only differenly.įor example, bring up the Coordinates Box.