Thank you Pat for letting me know that these functions are not standardly available.
These plug ins really are quite handy for producing engineering drawings.
You can, for example, bring up a dialog box that enables you draw a rectangle of any width & length and have it list the X & Y dimensions as well as an item name for the rectangle. This is really handy if you are doing manual optimizing for sheetgoods yield.
You can also select two objects and make them make them align to a common location, ie, the left side of one object exactly starts at the right side of another.
You can also lasso & distribute disparate objects and tell vectorworks what specific distance you want between these objects.
You can split any object or collection of objects into several parts like piece of pie.
These are all very neat functions, particularly because they are accessible in one click, via a tearoff palette.
I hired a fellow to write these scripts.
He is now a fulltime filemaker developer and is no longer working with vectorworks. He said the architecture was such that it was probably upgradeable but that I would need to find someone with the resources to do so.
I'm not that guy. I am a cabinetmaker that just wants to run the software.
The developer fellow is willing to help with making the migration happen.