Feature Highlights:
The new VectorWorks 2008 is designed to improve workflow, designs, and productivity through

• Streamlined Interface
  
• Drawing Improvements
  
• More Fluent Referencing Workflows
  
• Improved Library Management
  
• Enhanced Usability

Designer 2008 Features Include:

• Comprehensive to Cover Your Needs
  Use one program for everything. From conception to completion, VectorWorks Designer features state-of-the-art technology that sets you above the competition.
• No Learning Curve Required
  Out of the box and out of the gate. VectorWorks Designer was designed to think like you do, so you are up and running right away doing what you like to do best—design.
• Flexible to Fit Your Workflow
  You can design anything from products to environments. VectorWorks Designer maximizes the exclusive technology from all our design products—Fundamentals, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, and Machine Design. It offers the largest set of tools available in any CAD program.
• Plays Well with Others
  What a great team player! VectorWorks Designer can work fluidly with other programs used by you or your colleagues, 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. That's just the beginning. 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
  Used customerfeedback 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.

Renderworks 2008 Features

• 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 colour, 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.
  

• Artistic rendering mode allows you to soften hard lines and reproduce many hand-sketched styles, including cartoon, colour wash, contour, tapered lines, hatch, ink print, lines and shadows, mosaic, oil painting, overlapping lines, soft lines and stipple.

• 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.
  
• Turn any colour 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.
  

• 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.
  

• In addition to the direction, spot, and point lights found in VectorWorks, RenderWorks adds line and area lights. 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.
  
• A Visualisation palette provides a one-stop interface for managing lights and cameras in the model.
  

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

Minimum 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 colour 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 colour 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
  

Educational Pricing:

* Dongle must be purchased in conjunction with Network License.

Please state Windows or Mac on order