VectorWorks Machine Design 2008 & RenderWorks 2008 Mac & Win - 3NN-P1-NEW-MRXZ-DB - SaverSoftware

VectorWorks Machine Design 2008 & RenderWorks 2008 Mac & Win

Manufacturer - NEMETSCHEK

Price £ 1498.13    (£ 1,275.00 exc. VAT )


NEMETSCHEK - VectorWorks Machine Design 2008 & RenderWorks 2008 Mac & Win

Description

A comprehensive, streamlined 2D/3D design solution, VectorWorks Machine Design is specifically engineered for design firms, machine shops, and metal fabricators. Unlike "lite" CAD programs, Machine Design goes far beyond 2D. Sophisticated professional CAD capabilities help you create, model, present, and manufacture your designs. This program has all the tools you need to get the job done right from conception to completion.

Machine Design Benefits

A comprehensive, streamlined 2D/3D design solution, VectorWorks Machine Design is specifically engineered for design firms, machine shops, and metal fabricators. Unlike "lite" CAD programs, Machine Design goes far beyond 2D with sophisticated professional CAD capabilities to help you create, model, present, and manufacture your designs. Draw from thousands of free images in object libraries. Experience precision drafting and flexible tools for 3D modeling. Use a built-in database and worksheets to track costs and materials. Automate routine tasks with built-in scripting. Simplify file-sharing with a host of import/export formats. This program has all the tools you need to get the job done right.

Comprehensive to Cover Your Needs
Use one program for everything from drafting to modeling to reporting . From conception to completion, VectorWorks Machine Design features state-of-the-art technology that sets you above the competition.

Superior in Presentations
With VectorWorks Machine Design, you can create high-quality renderings and even present your designs as animated movies. Plug in RenderWorks to upgrade your presentations.


No Learning Curve Required
Out of the box and out of the gate. VectorWorks Machine Design was designed to think like you do, so you are up and running right away doing what you like to do best—design.


Plays Well with Others
VectorWorks Machine Design can work fluidly with your colleagues' or your other programs, so there's nothing lost in the translation.


Customer-Focused for Your Success
Your relationship with us doesn't end when you download the software. We provide many channels for you to get the information, training, tech support and networking you need.


Cost-Effective for Your Practice
You won't find another professional design program that packs so much into such a small price. In one package, you get state-of-the-art tools and technology and the ability to work from conception to completion.


Proven Worldwide
We listen to our customers and use their feedback to create a product that continually exceeds expectations, delivering superior design flexibility and world-class graphics. Join the more than 400,000 professional designers worldwide who use VectorWorks.

Feature List

A vast suite of 2D precision drafting tools provide you intelligent ways to design what you want. Tools include:

Smart Cursor technology for precise drawing
Parametric Constraints
Rectangle
Rounded Rectangle
Rotated Rectangle
Circle
Circle by Points
Oval
Free Hand
Tangents
Lines
Double Line
Arc
Polyline
Polygon
Double Polygon
Flyover
Spiral
Eye Dropper
Attribute Mapping
2D reshape
Rotate
Mirror
Split
Connect/Combine
Trim
Fillet
Chamfer
Offset
Clip
Move by Point
Several hybrid (2D and 3D) Machine Design objects allow you to intelligently design with countless configurations and valuable information already attached. Objects include:

Spur Gear
Spur Gear Rack
Bevel Gears
Worm Gear
Worm
Pulley
Sprocket
Roller Chain- Linear
Roller Chain- Circular
Roller Chain- Offset Link
Shaft
Key
Wodruff Key
Threaded Shaft
Slot
Shaft Break
Hole Pattern
Hole Drilled
Hole Tapped
Screw Threads
Keyway
Batt Insulation
Angle
Bulb Flat
Channel
I-Beam
Rectangular Tubing
Round Tubing
Square Tubing
Tee
Wide Flange
Eye Bolt
Fastener Tool
Swing Bolt
Swing Eye Bolt
T Bolt
U Bolt
J Bolt
Thumb Screw
Acorn Nut
Knurled Thumb Nut
Wing Nut (type A, B,C, D)
Clevis Pin
Dowel Pin
Taper Pin
Cotter Pin
Parallel Pin
Rivet
Hex Cap Nut
Retaining Wing
Retaining Washer
Ball Bearing
Roller Bearing
Tapered Roller Bearing
Thrust Bearing
Needle Bearing
Pillow Block
2 hole Flanged Bearing
4 hole Flanged Bearing
Bearing Lock Nut
Compression Spring
Die Spring
Conical Compression Spring
Torsion Spring
Extension Spring
Belleville Spring
Welding Symbols
Surface Texture Symbol
Leader Line
Machine Design enables you to create stunning presentations right out of the box that other programs just don’t provide. Some of the presentation features are:

Unlimited Color Choices
Color Palettes from Pantone®, Benjamin Moore®, Sherwin-Williams®, Resene®, Pittsburgh Paints®, and more
Gradients
Image fills
Hatches
Hand Sketch Styling
Sharing your drawings is very simple with these import/export options:

DXF/DWG
PDF
.skp (Sketchup)
.kml (Google Earth)
.3DS
Image Files, including JPG, TIF, PSD, EPSF and more
.stl
.IGES
.SAT
Support for PartSpec
Integrated analysis tools in Machine Design provide you value that you don’t expect to find at this price point.

Spring Calculator
Shaft Generator
Shaft Analysis Utility
Conversion Factor Calculator
Solution of Triangles
Simple Beam Load
Study of Kinematics of Cams
Geneva Mechanisms
VectorScript Scripting Options
Annotate and detail your drawings using the detailing suite in VectorWorks Machine Design. Options include:

Constrained Dimensions
Angular Dimensions
Radial Dimensions
Chain Dimensions
Redline and Revision Control
Notes Manager
Powerful 2D and 3D text options
Machine Design allows you to quickly determine real world attributes about the design such as:

Area
Perimeter
Moments of Inertia
Volume
Surface Area
Center of Mass
Mass Properties
A suite of powerful free-form modeling tools make it easy to design custom objects and shapes using tools like:

Boolean Operations
NURBS Curves
Loft Surfaces
Extrusions
Extractions
Protrusions
Shells
Solids
Visualizing designs in Machine Design is a breeze using a series of commands and rendering options available with the add on, RenderWorks. Specifically you can:

Use thousands of pre-made textures;
Create atmospheric effects;
Take advantage of volumetric lighting;
Make presentation boards using non-photo-realistic rendering options;
Render physical light with .ies light distribution files from major manufacturers;
Create accurate renderings with Radiosity or Final Gather Rendering;
Export QuickTime VR models;
Create solar animations.

RenderWorks Feature List

Add RenderWorks to Create Spectacular 3D Presentations

RenderWorks seamlessly integrates into VectorWorks to provide you with sophisticated photorealistic and hand-rendered effects. Whatever your objective—realistic or artistic—you can create stunning presentations to help you sell your ideas.

Create Realistic Renderings

Interactive OpenGL rendering supports textures, shadows, backgrounds, and allows real-time flyovers and walkthroughs.
For photo-realistic rendering choose between Radiosity and Ray Traced rendering. Both come with options for Final Gather, anti-aliasing, realistic lighting behavior and shadows. Shadow option allows you to add hard or soft shadows to your scenes.
Show your models on the real-world environments by incorporating photos as backgrounds or choose one of the default color, sky/cloud, or HDRI backgrounds. For drama, add atmospheric effects such as snow, fog, and lit fog to your backgrounds.
Show shafts or beams of light with volumetric lighting. Options allow you to control the density and atmospheric effect.
Create Non-Photorealistic (Artistic) Renderings

Artistic rendering mode allows you to soften hard lines and reproduce many hand-sketched styles, including cartoon, color wash, contour, tapered lines, hatch, ink print, lines and shadows, mosaic, oil painting, overlapping lines, soft lines and stipple. They are perfect when you’re just trying to convey concepts and give clients a sense for the space.

Take Textures to a New Level

Access a vast library of image-based textures and pre-defined shaders out of the box. Or, create custom textures from file formats, such as TIF, JPG, GIF and BMP. For added realism add reflection, transparency and bump effects.
Turn any color into a texture or, depending on what VectorWorks product you have, you can easily convert VectorWorks Pantone®, Benjamin Moore®, Sherwin-Williams®, Resene®, or Rosco® color palettes into texture libraries.
Turn any photo into a 3D image prop or access the free image prop library that ships with RenderWorks.
It’s easy to apply and edit textures in real time. Interactively position, resize and rotate textures directly on the surface of 3D objects.
Sun Studies and VR

Accurately create sun studies and solar animation by defining a directional light at a specific latitude, longitude, date and time.
RenderWorks provides Macintosh® and Windows®support for QuickTime® VR.
Light and Cameras

In addition to the direction, spot, and point lights found in VectorWorks, RenderWorks adds line and area lights. Area and line lights add another level of realism to your rendered scenes, allowing you to transform objects into light sources. They're great for producing soft, glowing lighting effects such as neon tube lighting, fluorescent light boxes, lit windows or skylights.
Physical lighting attributes allow you to define a light object with real-world photometric properties as well as by importing load distribution files provided by lighting manufacturers.
Quickly light scenes and add environments by adding HDRI backgrounds.
Cameras make it easy to set and edit 3D views. Perspective View controls let you set the camera’s height, the look-to-height, move the camera left/right as well as pan, adjust the focal length (zoom), change the aspect ratio and clip frame size.
A handy Visualization palette provides a one-stop interface for managing lights and cameras in the model.
Added Import Export Options

Export EPix/Paranesi option.
Export QuickTime® Panorama and Object VR movies.
Export High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI).

System Requirements

Macintosh:
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later
Other Software: QuickTime 6 or higher
Processor: PowerPC G4 or newer
(Universal binary runs native on Intel Macs)
Other Hardware: DVD-ROM drive
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768 (XGA)
Display color depth: 16 bit

Windows:
Operating System: Windows XP SP 2, Windows Vista
Other Software: QuickTime 6.5.2 to 7.2
(higher versions not recommended)
Processor: Pentium IV or newer
Other Hardware: DVD-ROM drive
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768 (XGA)
Display color depth: 16 bit

VectorWorks:
RAM: 1GB
Hard drive space: 4GB free

VectorWorks plus RenderWorks:
RAM: 2GB
Hard drive space: 4GB free

VectorWorks Designer:
RAM: 1GB
Hard drive space: 6GB free

VectorWorks Designer plus RenderWorks:
RAM: 2GB
Hard drive space: 6GB free

Release Date: Monday, 24th September 2007