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Streamlined Interface
Find what you're looking for quickly. Common controls are all within easy reach.
New Heads-up Data Display
The new heads-up data display puts the action where the cursor is, allowing you to quickly create and edit objects to exact dimensions. Need a 22" line at 43 degrees? Simply click to start the line. Next, type 22" to set the length. Then, tab over and enter 43 to define the angle. Finally, press Enter or click to end. Drawing in VectorWorks has never been this fast.
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New View Bar
The new View bar simplifies the interface and improves usability by centralizing VectorWorks' many organization and viewing controls in one convenient location.
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Object Selection Highlighting
To make selecting and reshaping objects easier, selected objects now highlight-handles are reserved to indicate reshape points/grips. Highlighting makes it easy to see selected objects at any zoom level and removes confusion when reshaping objects with overlapping handles. Highlight colors are completely customizable. And, you can choose different highlighting appearances for objects on active layers, objects on inactive layers, and locked objects.
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Saved Tool Preferences and Settings
Set up VectorWorks just the way you like, and, the next time you start a session, you'll be ready to draw. To save you time, tool modes, tool preferences, constraints settings, and the settings within some dialog boxes and their screen position are saved across sessions. You can also set many alert dialog boxes to "always do the selected action," which suppresses them, so they don't interrupt your workflow.
Automatic Object Centering When Editing
For easier object editing, VectorWorks 2008 automatically centers objects in the middle of the screen when in an edit mode or when switching views, so you don't have to manually adjust the view to fit to the objects after a view change.
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Faster Editing with Object-sensitive Context Menus
Many of the object context menus have been customized to display the logical operations you're likely to need for each object. So, when you right-click on an object, you're presented with a helpful set of commands that are specific to that type of object. For example, if you right-click on a text block, you can edit, format, or even check the text spelling-which saves you the trouble of locating the right commands. Or, if you right-click on a symbol, you can replace the symbol or edit its 2D or 3D view.
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New Modern Icons
The VectorWorks icons have been updated and now have a new, modern look, which make them more consistent, easier to identify, and easier to view and select at high screen resolutions.
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Printable Keyboard Shortcuts Guide
You can easily export and print a list of all the available tools, commands, keyboard shortcuts, and reserved keys for each workspace-a good reference tool for existing users and great learning aid for new employees.