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#Vectorworks vs archicad full#
The Designer package which includes the full rendering engine, along with modules for landscape and mechanical and lighting is a terrific value. Very powerful, very robust, and extremely capable of the most complex of 2d AND 3d drawing. I have been using Vectorworks (previously MiniCad) for a long time and have seen it grow into a truly spectacularly great piece of software.
#Vectorworks vs archicad windows#
Large projects, large teams it is almost indispensable.īoth programs are equally at home on OSX or Windows - easing hardware considerations. Archicad is much closer to REVIT, both in attitude and in cost. This comes with the standard proviso of a need for much tighter office standards, with a team/document manager and an immediate move to object oriented drafting. As such they have a much more robust team approach to projects. Vectorworks is sold in a component approach, start with basic cad, add features relevant to architecture / landscape architecture / theater set and lighting design / and 3d photorealistic rendering as you feel the need in your practice.Īrchicad has moved much more towards the larger workgroup coordinated work on a central 3d/BIM model, from which all 2d documentation is then derived. Although requiring some additional work, Vectoworks can comply with GSA BIM requirements. They work but require a larger learning curve in the early set-up and management. Vectorwork's limitations tend to occur in the less clear methodologies provided for larger workgroups working on a single project. It also allows for a reasonably painless, and time saving, transition from 'line editing' (basic autocad drafting) to the use of intelligent object oriented drafting (Architectural Desktop / Revit /Archicad). It is also a 'relatively' intuitive entry to working through 3d modelling as your basic approach to schematic design and design development allowing a straight forward transition from the model to contract documentation. They are now both Nemechek products.įor simple 2d cad and inclusion of hand/photographic graphics, Vectorworks has a much faster learning curve. Archicad depends on the size of your firm/project teams.