Hola! Earlier today, we released the Spanish-language version of Vectorworks® 2010 software products, including: Designer, Architect, Landmark, Fundamentals, and Renderworks™. The Spanish-language version will be available in Spain, and South and Central American countries such as Mexico, Chile, and Argentina. Click here to check for availability in your country. To read the press release in full, click here.

To take a look at the more than 80 new features more

True story: Vectorworks software has a product placement role in the upcoming major Hollywood film, The Beaver. Directed by Jodie Foster and starring Mel Gibson, we were asked permission to use our product for CAD drawings and as a product box for a set design. Cool.

Thanks to the Vectorworks user working on this set design who requested that our software more

Nemetschek North America is pleased to announce that a number of its major European distributors have released their localized 2010 versions of Vectorworks® software, including: Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Machine Design, Fundamentals, and Renderworks. Versions are now available in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. To read the full release, click here.

Columbia, Maryland (May 26, 2009)—Nemetschek North America is now offering Light Plot Deconstructed, a great companion guide for anyone seeking to learn the fundamentals of lighting design with Vectorworks® Spotlight. The tutorial is also the debut work of Gregg Hillmar, an accomplished scenic and lighting designer, and an experienced Vectorworks user.

“This book sort of grew into existence,” says Hillmar, who, with several decades of professional theater design work under more

It’s not every day that CAD software developers get to rub shoulders with Hollywood types. But that’s what happened about a year ago to Nemetschek North America, the makers of Vectorworks® CAD software.

“A representative from a product placement company contacted our company,” tells Jessie Newburn, the PR Gal at Nemetschek N.A. “The set designer of the corporate espionage film, Duplicity, specifically requested to use Vectorworks.” The more

Vectorworks hosted a tweet-up at this year’s USITT annual conference. A tweet-up is like a meet-up, except for people who use twitter, the increasingly popular and a bit peculiar social media tool where people post updates of 140 characters or less.

See, it’s not uncommon for people with shared interests around an industry to follow each other on twitter. Equally, it’s not uncommon for twitterers (tweeps) who “follow” each other, only more

Vectorworks SpotlightColumbia, Maryland (March 26, 2009)—Nemetschek North America has released its third Service Pack for the Vectorworks 2009 product line. In addition to addressing several user origin shift problems, quality improvements were also made to stairs, framing member objects, IFC export, referenced and sheet layer viewports (including section viewports), interactive drawing operations, and many other areas of the application.

“Developing software is an always-evolving process,” says Mark Farnan, more