Q: Vectorworks allows just 1GB of cloud storage. Complex model design will remain on the desktop, but non-interactive workflow steps that are compute-intensive will move to the cloud - generating sections and renderings, for example - to allow the user to keep working on other things. Also, we have to deal with different mindsets of what you should be able to do on the cloud. People have to be willing to fundamentally change the way they work. Q: What are the biggest challenges to your customers accepting cloud services?Ī: It is no different than introducing revolutionary new tools on the desktop. We are expanding next to Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and then Japan later this year. The reason for the staggered releases is due to the need to translate the app and Web interface to local languages, as well as the time it takes for submissions to clear the Apple App Store. Q: What are your biggest hurdles in introducing it to other countries - is it technology?Ī: No, not technological, because we use Amazon Web Services, and so countries do not matter. We began with iOS mainly because 55% of our user base is Mac-based, and so we assume this majority also uses iPads. They like its uncrowded interface for markup and communication.Ī: We get asked about that, and it is coming later this year. They also like the simplicity of our Vectorworks Nomad app for the iPad.
Q: Of the people using it, what do they like about it?Ī: They like the idea of freeing themselves up to work, while viewports and sheets are calculated in the cloud. We have seen a spike in our usage, but we are still early in the offering stage. How is it going so far?Ī: We are seeing a decent amount of initial uptake, and people trying the service in USA, Canada, UK, Portugal, Denmark, Ireland, and Spain we just added Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein.
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What better way to build a BIM solution that works than to use the world’s most powerful 3D modeling technology kernel?Ī: Yes, Bentley does, but Vectorworks is the only architectural package on the Mac to use Parasolid. Q: Parasolid is mainly used for mechanical design, and so isn’t it unusual using it for architectural software?Ī: We saw the PLM community had already figured out the concept of BIM years ago, and decided that Parasolid was an integral technology in making it possible. Tell us about that.Ī: We added Parasolid with Vectorworks 2009, because we saw BIM would evolve with robust 3D technology as being core to architectural design. Q: Vectorworks is known primarily as architectural software, yet you added a solid modeler. Today, the company is known as Nemetschek Vectorworks, and its founder, Richard Diehl, is still chairman of the board.ĬADdigest’s Ralph Grabowski and Roopinder Tara spoke with Jeremy Powell, the Global Director of Product Marketing at Nemetschek Vectorworks.
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In 2000, the company was acquired by Nemetschek after the German company failed to plant its Unix-based AEC software in the United States.
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The company began in 1985 under the name Diehl Graphsoft, first releasing its 3D architectural software on the Mac, and then extending it to Windows in 1997. By Ralph Grabowski Vectorworks is one of the pioneers in desktop CAD, and now it is a pioneer in cloud CAD.
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