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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.

All interiorcad installers install interiorcad completely. There's no need to install a previous version first. It is strongly recommended to install it on top of a plain vanilla VectorWorks 2008 installation though

If you want to install an interiorcad 2008 update on top of an existing interiorcad 2008 installation, please do the following steps before running the installer:

• Visit the VectorWorks 2008 installation folder
  
• Locate and open the folder "Plug-Ins". Locate and remove the folder "xg". This will wipe out all interiorcad 2008 plug-ins. Do not simply rename this folder as VectorWorks 2008 will scan all plug-in folders recursively.
  
• In the VectorWorks 2008 installation folder, remove the folder called "interiorcad". This will not affect any of your personal settings. It's simply a template folder.
  
• In the VectorWorks 2008 installation folder, locate and open the folder "Templates". Remove the "interiorcad (Imperial).sta" resp. "interiorcad (Metric).sta" files.
  

You can now run the installer which will recreate the files and folders you just deleted. Due to files and settings in your user folder, you will still get dated template, workspace and interiorcad configuration files. If you want to benefit from all the fixes the update provides, do the following additional steps:

• Visit the VectorWorks 2008 app data folder. The path differs depending on the platform:
  • Mac OS X: /Users/Your Username/Library/Application Support/VectorWorks/2008/
  • Windows Vista: C:\Users\Your Username\AppData\Roaming\Nemetschek\VectorWorks\2008\
  • Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\YourUsername\AppData\Nemetschek\VectorWorks\2008\
• To get the updated template files, backup the folder "Templates" and rename it as "Templates old"
• To get the updated workspaces, backup the folder "Workspaces" and rename it as "Workspaces old"
• To get the updated interiorcad database, backup the folder "xg" and rename it as "xg old"

Now start VectorWorks 2008. We hope you enjoy the interiorcad update!

If you still wonder if VectorWorks is the way to go, check out this great review for VectorWorks Architect.

Did we mention that VectorWorks Architect & interiorcad make a great combo :-)

If you haven't done so already, make sure to head over to NNA's site and download VectorWorks 2008 SP2 - especially if you're one of those Leopard users out there - Cover Flow and Quick Look are some slick features you may want to take advantage of.

Congratulations to NNA for shipping VectorWorks 2008. It rocks!

When it comes to printing, line thicknesses are essential to get proper printouts. Black lines set to wee small values will appear as thin gray lines.
Objects in VectorWorks can either use individual attributes (as set by the palette »Attributes«) or inherit attributes from classes. Classes in VectorWorks provide an outstanding capability to manage attributes for multiple objects across a drawing. Thus the unit editor of interiorCAD uses classes for managing attributes of units.

To adjust the line thicknesses of objects via their classes, open the class dialog. Select all classes you want to change. To select multiple classes, use Shift-click resp. Ctrl-Click on Windows and Shift-click resp. Cmd-click on Macintosh computers. Then press »Edit...« and set the line thicknesses to a reasonable value: