More-important enhancements include an improved Worksheet, with a proper formula bar and the ability to import data from Microsoft Excel and most other database applications. Together, these two features eliminate many common drawing mistakes and the laborious reentry of dimensions in a complex drawing. A related new feature is associative dimensioning: VectorWorks automatically adjusts a dimension (distance or angle) associated with a drawing element when you resize it. With a pair of clicks, you can set two line segments at a constrained angle to each other or set two circles at a defined concentricity–in fact, you can define a spatial relationship for almost any objects–and the constraints stay in place when you move or resize the drawing elements. Most useful among these are the palettes of parametric and geometric constraints.
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One new feature in VectorWorks 9 is a set of drawing tools modeled on those in far costlier CAD software (such as Ashlar’s $5,000 Vellum Solids). Surprisingly, though, VectorWorks still had room for some serious enhancements, and new owner Nemetschek (which acquired the product from Diehl Graphsoft) has done a fine job of packing them in. After a decade of fine-tuning this successor to MiniCAD, you’d think there wouldn’t be much left to do. The first thing I have to point out regarding VectorWorks 9 is that there really wasn’t anything wrong with
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