by TomBaer (Author)
The best-selling CAD software on the Mac and an industry-standard on Windows, VectorWorks 10 includes a slew of new enhancements to its robust 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools, including a streamlined interface, new tools to help you draw faster, advanced presentation features, improved VectorScripting, native Mac OS X support, and integrated 3D modeling tools. VectorWorks 10 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will help you get up-to-speed on all of these new features quickly and easily. Updated to reflect the program's streamlined interface and tools, this step-by-step task-based reference explains the new Resource Browser, touches on the advanced 3D modeling tools, and includes an entirely new chapter on customizing the VectorWorks interface to make tools more accessible, create custom keyboard shortcuts, and create highly detailed and structured templates that allow you to maintain consistency over all of their drawings. Unlike competing books, which mimic the software's manual in their text-heavy formats, VectorWorks 10 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide comes loaded with screenshots that enable you to get up and running fast with this powerful, yet affordable, CAD software.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Edition: 1
Publisher: Peachpit Press VectorWorks X is the latest release of Nemetschek's CAD design software, the best-selling CAD software on the Mac and an industry standard on Windows with over 150,000 Mac and Windows users in over 80 countries. Version X is affordably priced for the small to mid-sized design shops and boasts a slew of enhancements to its robust 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools. VectorWorks X for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide covers all of the program's new tools and features and includes an entirely new chapter on customizing the VectorWorks interface to make tools more accessible, create custom keyboard shortcuts, and create highly detailed and structured templates that allow readers to maintain consistency over all of their drawings. Unlike competing books, which mimic the software's manual in their text-heavy formats, the step-by-step, task-based reference comes loaded with screenshots that enable designers at small to mid-sized firms to get up and running fast with this powerful, yet affordable, CAD software.
Published: 20 Dec 2002
ISBN 10: 0321159446
ISBN 13: 9780321159441
Book Overview:
Tom Baer is the author of VectorWorks 9 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. As an industrial designer with over 25 years of experience, Tom has used not only VectorWorks (and its predecessor MiniCad), but also the high-end MicroStation CAD software in the development of projects over the past 10 years. Along the way, he has taught both philosophy and industrial design; he is well aware of the virtues of a clear explanation. Tom currently works in the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Iowa.