Ahead of its annual Design Summit, Vectorworks has released the latest update to its BIM software. The company has implemented a number of changes in Vectorworks 2019 that took user feedback and translated it into major improvements in usability and performance. To learn more about this year’s update, engineering.com spoke to Vectorworks CEO Biplab Sarkar.
In Vectorworks 2019, clip cube can now be used on sheet layer viewports, making it possible to quickly create cutaways for presentations and other purposes. (Image courtesy of Vectorworks.)
Sarkar wasn’t only able to enlighten us about Vectorworks 2019, but he also shed light on how he sees his company fitting into the larger architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) landscape as it undergoes significant changes associated with industrialization, reality capture and virtual and augmented reality.
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Sarkar confirmed what is already well-known within the industry: Vectorworks has a very close relationship with its users. This relationship, according to the executive, actually surprised him when he started with the company about 18 years ago.
“When I joined the company in 2000, that was one of the first things that I noticed: our developers are really close to the customers,” Sarkar said. “It was kind of surprising to me because I came from an environment where that was not the case. The philosophy from the beginning was to add functionality only if we can improve the…