Hi as a new user of vectorworks I find it really difficult to orbit in 3d like sketchup which I've used for 15 years. There are 100's of thousands of sketchup users that for years have been looking for sketchup to fix their Layout program so it can be used for construction drawings, and the last 2 years of releases have ignored updating the program to suit. I'm one of those many many people that have decided to pick up another 3d BIM program.
I tested ArchiCAD for a few months on projects and its way too overly complicated and takes too long to draft in, and it feels like using a Mac after using windows, not intuitive.
Revit seems much easier and logical but you can't model in 3d very easily so it feels like a CAD program not design software, but it's very stable and intuitive.
Vectorworks feels the most like sketchup and has a more residential style about it and not too complicated. I've picked up pretty well but a few things bug me, one of the things is the way it orbits. In sketchup you don't need to select an object to rotate around, it orbits around your mouse pointer or something and it's so intuitive. If you want to cash in on thousands of thousands of frustrated sketchup users having an option to orbit like sketchup could get you a lot of new clients. And if you could make an option to use the middle mouse button like sketchup to orbit that would even be better.
This obviously isn't an issue for current users but more customers means more money, more staff, more chance of fixing other issues.
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Hi as a new user of vectorworks I find it really difficult to orbit in 3d like sketchup which I've used for 15 years. There are 100's of thousands of sketchup users that for years have been looking for sketchup to fix their Layout program so it can be used for construction drawings, and the last 2 years of releases have ignored updating the program to suit. I'm one of those many many people that have decided to pick up another 3d BIM program.
I tested ArchiCAD for a few months on projects and its way too overly complicated and takes too long to draft in, and it feels like using a Mac after using windows, not intuitive.
Revit seems much easier and logical but you can't model in 3d very easily so it feels like a CAD program not design software, but it's very stable and intuitive.
Vectorworks feels the most like sketchup and has a more residential style about it and not too complicated. I've picked up pretty well but a few things bug me, one of the things is the way it orbits. In sketchup you don't need to select an object to rotate around, it orbits around your mouse pointer or something and it's so intuitive. If you want to cash in on thousands of thousands of frustrated sketchup users having an option to orbit like sketchup could get you a lot of new clients. And if you could make an option to use the middle mouse button like sketchup to orbit that would even be better.
This obviously isn't an issue for current users but more customers means more money, more staff, more chance of fixing other issues.
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