Vectorworks, Inc. has released update 3.1 for the Vectorworks 2024 product line. This update includes quality improvements that enhance your everyday experience with Vectorworks 2024.
Important Enhancements
- Fixes the offset distance issue when inserting doors and windows
- Improves speed when recalculating worksheets with space records
- Restores launching Vectorworks Cloud Services from the Vectorworks application
For a full list of improvements in this update, please visit this page.
Installing the Update
This update is available as a downloadable updater for all U.S. English-based versions of Vectorworks 2024. To install the update, please select Check for Updates from the Vectorworks menu (Mac) or Help menu (Windows).
Please submit a support request in the customer portal if you have any technical questions or problems during this process.
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Vectorworks, Inc. has released its third update for the Vectorworks 2024 product line. This update includes the following quality improvements that enhance your everyday experience with Vectorworks 2024.
Important Enhancements
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General
- Improves general stability.
- Fixes the dimension, dimension area, and dimension volume parameters in data records for title block borders.
- Restores Trim tool functionality.
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Interoperability
- Supports importing and exporting to Revit version 2024.
- Optimizes DWG export for landscape area objects.
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Design Suite and Architect
- The Tools > Show or Hide Solibri Inside Palette command has been added to the Design Suite and Architect workspaces.
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Landmark
- New PlantMaster plugin available in the Install Partner Products palette
- Users with a PlantMaster subscription can access an extensive plant library to select plants and send them to Vectorworks to populate a planting schedule. Users can then send the schedule back to PlantMaster to create plant reports and presentations with high quality graphics.
- (After installation, PlantMaster displays in the Window > Palettes > Web Palettes menu.)
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Spotlight
- In files created in Vectorworks 2023 and opened in Vectorworks 2024, resolves an issue that caused Vectorworks to close when using the Cable Configuration dialog box to replace a cable.
- Improves performance when inserting new trusses.
- Correctly imports bridle part symbols.
- On Windows, fixes an issue that caused the source column in the equipment list to appear blank.
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Improved MVR export
- Vectorworks now exports the following items:
- Shutter positions and angles
- Custom lights (exported using glTF geometry)
- Color names assigned to lighting devices
- Gobo images
- GDTF fixture profiles selected from the data folder
- Position names (even if the lighting positions do not exist)
- Seating sections
- Unsupported characters have been removed from exported file names.
- Project sharing no longer requires you to check out objects when exporting to MVR.
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Improved GDTF support
- glTF is supported in GDTF files.
- For lighting devices, GDTF geometry is shown when the Use GDTF Geometry parameter is selected on the Object Info palette.
- The web browser displays the correct information when editing a GDTF file.
- Using SVG files in a GDTF file is now supported.
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Braceworks
- On the macOS, restores the Cross Sections pane of the Braceworks Calculation Report dialog box.
- Vertical and horizontal lines now display correctly in the Braceworks calculation report when the report is generated repeatedly.
- Restores colored icons in the Braceworks Calculation Overview dialog box.
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ConnectCAD
- Resolves scaling issues with circuits and equipment items.
- Layout rooms no longer delete the location data of equipment items.
For a full list of improvements in this update, please visit this page.
Installing the Update
This update is available as a downloadable updater for all U.S. English-based versions of Vectorworks 2024. To install the update, please select Check for Updates from the Vectorworks menu (Mac) or Help menu (Windows).
Please submit a support request in the customer portal if you have any technical questions or problems during this process.
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