January 2010 Archives

This past Thursday, Sean Flaherty, CEO of Nemetschek North America, the makers of Vectorworks, visited a customer of ours to learn how interiorcad is used in a typical production workflow. Sean was staying in Essen to visit the DEUBAU building fair and took the opportunity to see Droste Innenausbau, a medium sized interior design and production company in Gelsenkirchen, some 22 km away from the fair. Together with him, Carlos Lüthy, CEO of Computerworks Germany, Andreas Thierer, also an employee at Computerworks and Stephan Mönninghoff, CEO of extragroup were given a „guided tour" through what makes up a typical fileset of rendered presentations, production drawings, cutting lists and, finally, CNC code generation.

„It was interesting to see how a Vectorworks product is used in fields other than architectural planning or design." Says Sean Flaherty. „While rendered images are also used by our architect customers, the end result is much different - not a printed plan but a set of boards, complete with all drillings, routings and edgebanding".

Droste owns 4 copies of Vectorworks interiorcad including VectorWOP, our CAM interface, and is a recent switcher from another CAD package. Sven Vogler, technician at Droste states that „switching to Vectorworks interiorcad gave us much greater flexibility when designing in 3D. Making last-minute changes to a design or set of production drawings used to be tedious when working in 2D. Thanks to sophisticated viewports and live sections, changing details in a design does not mean a major overhaul of the complete drawing now."

After a lively discussion over some Vectorworks files, Henner Droste, owner of Droste Innenausbau, took everyone down to the large workshop, where a horizontal beam saw, fully automated edgebanding machine and large IMA CNC router make for fast and first class production conditions.

Thanks to all who participated, first and foremost, Henner Droste who gave some interesting insight into his production facilities.

More news on Vectorworks can be found at Planet Vectorworks.