Vectorworks 2020 Teaser Tuesday - GIS Improvements

"Another existing and welcome feature for Architects, Landscape Designers and Urban Designer showing how committed Vectorworks is in providing an all in one solution for the built environment. In my opinion, as well as creating the most beautiful 2D CAD drawings in the industry, the new 3D features blow SketchUP out of the water, and the BIM workflows in Vectorworks are intuitive and powerful, and easy to integrate into your design, and totally cross platform for Mac and PC!" Jonathan Reeves

Award winning architect, author and educator of Innovative Vectorworks BIM specialising in professional Vectorworks & Twinmotion Training Sales, 3D, and BIM

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Seeing your project in real-world context is a powerful option, and Vectorworks 2020 makes it easy with Geographic Information System (GIS) improvements.
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GIS capabilities have been in Vectorworks for a while. In version 2019, the GIS toolset supports a somewhat cumbersome workflow where users have to manually import georeferenced imagery, which could take more time than desired. 

Thanks to Esri’s ArcGIS online capabilities, third party imagery will help keep smaller file sizes without bogging down document performance. The georeference essentially exists as a background image that you can pan and zoom according to your document’s internal origin. You can link everything to the same coordinate system — and for site models, there’s a new option to incorporate geoimages as textures in 3D views.
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Along with reworked dialog boxes, these improvements mean that seeing your drawing in real-world context is much quicker, easier, and more accurate.