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VectorWorks Machine Design: Australian Features



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	Australian Features

	New in Version 2008

OzCAD produces a special version of Machine Design that contains Australian libraries, additional tools and commands, along with high quality 2D and 3D entourage libraries for people, vehicles, trees, furniture, hatches, colour palettes, image fills and gradients. For more information, read the detailed descriptions below.

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Feature Matrix

Steel Section Tools
Creates all the standard hot rolled OneSteel and Bluescope Steel steel sections and welded hollow sections.

Australian Colour Libraries
This command provides access to libraries of professional Colour Systems commonly used by Specifiers in Australia. Standard libraries include Dulux®, Taubmans, Porters, Murabond, Colorbond®, Laminex®, Concrete Colour Systems and Cabots®.

Custom Dashed Line Tool
Useful for boundary lines, piping runs or electrical wiring, this tool is designed to draw straight sided polygons with edges comprising of dashed lines with a cross line or piece of text in the dash space. Once drawn, the polygon can be reshaped with the 2D Reshape tool.

Equal Dimension Tool
Replaces the numeric dimension value on a picked dimension with the text ‘EQ’.

3D Tape Measure Tool
Quickly determine distances between points or objects in a 3D model using this new tool. Like its 2D counterpart, it provides a running total length as well as the length of the last segment drawn.

Title Block Tool & Issue Command
The VAA Title Block tool and VAA Revise Issue Print commands provide a complete and flexible system for adding title blocks to drawings, entering issue or revision notes, batch printing and creating or updating a comprehensive transmittal. These tools are designed to speed-up drawing management whilst maintaining more accurate and detailed revision and issue history for the full duration of a project.

In VectorWorks 2008, there are new options which include north points, drawing stamps and custom names for title block symbols.

Entourage and Resource Libraries
• Additional hatch libraries
• Additional paving brick, vegetation, stonework and other materials image fills and textures
• Additional colour palette libraries
• Additional gradient fills
• Extensive and new 2D and 3D libraries for people, trees, cars, furniture, etc.
• New 3D tree and people image prop objects for rendering

Select Similar Tool
Is like a magic wand tool and allows all objects with similar attributes to the one you clicked, to be selected. Selection criteria can be chosen via a Preferences dialogue and includes criterion such as font, font size, wall thickness, dimension standard, class, record, etc. You can also save different selection sets for easy recall in the future. Editing drawings or cleaning up imported DXF/DWG files is very much faster with this tool.

AnimationWorks
AnimationWorks allows you to create complex camera or object animations entirely within VectorWorks, then save them as QuickTime movies which can be viewed by anyone who has QuickTime installed. Click here to read more and to see sample movies.