Teaser Tuesday - Vectorworks Graphic Module for Sheet Layers - Vectorworks 2019
Today’s teaser item (or perhaps one and a half items?) is one of those underdogs that won’t likely get much commercial attention, but any regular user of Vectorworks will notice and appreciate it immediately.
In Vectorworks 2019, we have transitioned Sheet Layers over to the Vectorworks Graphics Module. This means that highly complex or dense viewports will now be drawn much faster than before, and that speed will scale up with your machine’s graphics capability. A lot could be said
We debated having this as a separate teaser, but these two items really do go hand in hand. The below demonstrates On Demand Tessellation, which is a very large step in moving Vectorworks to being completely multithreaded. ODT basically splits up tasks to be handed off to the VGM into multiple CPU threads, meaning you don't just have to wait for that one single core to do everything before you can get working again. Its now going to draw objects using multiple cores.
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