A NOTE FROM THE CEO
I'd like to congratulate Leers Weinzapfel Associates for winning this year’s AIA Architectural Firm Award, the most prestigious prize the AIA bestows on architectural firms. Take a look at the Leers Weinzapfel web site to see the wide variety of projects they've completed, including a number of spectacular educational and public realm projects. They've been using VectorWorks since the MiniCAD days, and I wish them even more success in the future.
In another industry, we’re also talking to a lot of successful customers. VectorWorks Landmark has become our fastest growing product, and we’re investigating how to continue our growth. Our R&D team is working to develop a strategy for the next few years to address landscaping needs around the world. We want to identify the key needs in order to clearly make VectorWorks Landmark the leader for landscape designers. If you have ideas or suggestions about how we can improve this product please share them with us. Darick Dehart is leading our planning, and I invite you to contact him directly.
With all our products growing so successfully, we’re undergoing a large expansion in Columbia this year. We have quite a few positions available still, and if you or someone you know would like to work for a successful design technology leader, we'd be happy to take a look at the resume. Please visit our Jobs web page for more information.
Sincerely,
Sean
Flaherty
CEO, Nemetschek North America
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Introducing Dave Donley, Nemetschek's RenderWorks Lead Engineer. Dave started at NNA just after MiniCad 5.0.3 came out in the Fall of 1994. He works on the RenderWorks features, especially ones that involve the LightWorks rendering library.
My biggest guilty pleasure is...
My
aquaponics hobby, which I spend too much time and money on. It’s where you
grow fish and plants together in a closed loop. This year I'm growing
tilapia which we should be able to eat around September!
If
I were a cartoon character, I would be...
My favorite was
always Pink Panther. They have reruns on Boomerang that I like to
watch with my four-year-old son.
The thing most people
don't know about me is....
I am a very moral person. I don't
lie and I find it difficult to be “bad”.
When I was young
I...
Wanted to be an astronaut, but I wore glasses so I didn't
think I would get in. Later on I read an article called “Meet the Hacker”
in Science ‘83 magazine and became hooked on computer
programming.
If I had a million dollars, I
would....
Reduce suffering in the world, reduce inequality,
strengthen the democratic process, promote good law-making, increase
compassion, improve the diffusion of knowledge, promote environmental
sustainability, make my kids refer to me as “Your Eminence”.
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Moving doors and windows in a wall in a single operation: Read a step-by-step tutorial on how the 2D Reshape tool can move multiple doors and windows in a wall in a single operation. READ MORE
Modifying Viewports for Printing: Each viewport contains settings that can be changed for printing purposes, without modifying the original model. READ MORE
Zoom Out Tool Keyboard Shortcut : Follow a step-by-step guide to re-activating the V keyboard shortcut which was previously used to zoom out. READ MORE
VectorWorks Projects Featured in Architectural Record: A stark metal box for metal sculptures, the Kanno Museum of Art contrasts markedly with the expressive curvy structures that first thrust architect and VectorWorks user Hitoshi Abe into the limelight. This latest work, a Cor-Ten cube, dimpled with a pattern reminiscent of diamond plate, contains a cluster of small galleries, inspired by soap bubbles but made of flat planes of steel. READ MORE
Kitchen and Bath Call for Entries: Let’s see more VectorWorks users in the headlines. The editors of Architectural Record are calling for entries for the 2007 Kitchen & Bath Portfolio. Entry is open to any registered architect who has recently completed an innovative kitchen and/or bath project. Of interest are projects that feature unexpected materials, address unique client needs, or are designed in a manner that allows these utilitarian spaces to be both functional and beautiful. There is no fee. Submissions should include images (color prints, large-format transparencies, or high-res digital images on CD along with a labeled color printout), a brief project description, and a complete credit and product source list. No slides or e-mailed submissions please. All materials must be received by Friday, April 6. Selected entries will be featured in the July, 2007, issue. Mail your submissions to: Rita Catinella Orrell, Architectural Record, Two Penn Plaza, Ninth Floor, New York, NY 10121. Any questions, please e-mail Rita Catinella Orrell: rita_catinella@mcgraw-hill.com. READ MORE
Spanish-language VectorWorks 12.5.1 Available:Nemetschek North America has updated the Spanish-language versions of VectorWorks Fundamentals, VectorWorks Architect, and RenderWorks to version 12.5.1. For more information about Spanish-language VectorWorks availability, visit Nemetschek North America’s home page and select Español in the language drop-down menu. READ MORE
March 3D Modeling and Rendering PLS Training in San Francisco: Find out how easy it is to add another dimension to your drawings and take your presentations to a new level. Take a VectorWorks 3D Modeling and Rendering Professional Learning Series seminar March 26-27 in San Francisco. If you’re on the East Coast, mark June 14-15 off on your calendars. For complete information and to register, visit the VectorWorks Professional Learning Series web page.
Sean Flaherty Interviewed on Novedge: Franco Folini gets Nemetschek CEO Sean Flaherty’s input on the Graphisoft acquisition, the Nemetschek approach to BIM, and more in an interview on Novedge™. READ MORE
Nemetschek Job Openings: Nemetschek North
America, a world leader in architectural, landscape and entertainment
design software, is looking to fill several positions.
•2 Industry
Specialists— an Architectural Industry Specialist and a
Landscape Architecture Industry Specialist. These
positions will help support the company’s marketing, sales and product
development teams and help drive growth of the product line in their
associated industry's design software.
•CAD Library
Developer, a CAD designer/manager with expertise in the
architectural industry to assist in developing CAD standard symbol
libraries and other content for VectorWorks Architect, its CAD software
product for the AEC industry.
•Senior Technical
Writer to write, edit, organize, and maintain complex,
highly-graphical technical manuals and on-line
help.
•Quality Assurance Specialist- Work with our
software engineers & testers to help ensure our products meet the
highest expectations.
•Software Engineer- We have
multiple positions available and are eager to hear from software engineers
with a strong knowledge of Windows GUI programming or significant
experience with AutoCAD or the DXF/DWG file formats.
•Sales
Representatives, enthusiastic individuals with strong
communication skills and positive attitudes, to be part of its flourishing
team. READ
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Mar
15-16: ITEA, San Antonio, TX
Mar 15-17: USITT, Phoenix, AZ
Mar
08-10: JLC Live New England, Providence, RI, Booth #1110
Apr 04-05:
Residential Design 2007, Boston, MA, Booth #438
May 03-05: AIA 2007
National Convention, San Antonio, TX, Booth #11149
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Francisco, CA
Apr 02-04: Intro to VectorWorks and Spotlight
Fundamentals, New York, NY
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Architect Fundamentals, Columbia, MD Complete
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VectorWorks User Group Meeting
Mar 14: Minnesota VectorWorks User
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Mar 15: Philadelphia VectorWorks User Group
Meeting
Mar 16: Phoenix VectorWorks User Group Meeting
Mar 19: W.
Massachusetts VectorWorks User Group Meeting
Mar 21: Austin VectorWorks
User Group Meeting
Mar 21: Chicago VectorWorks User Group
Meeting
Mar 22: Connecticut VectorWorks User Group Meeting
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Mar 22: AIA CT Lunch & Learn:
Remembering Design in the BIM Workflow
Inotera Headquarters and Production Facility:
The Inotera Headquarters and Production Facility is nothing like
your typical office building. When the owner of a silicon wafer
fabrication facility in Taipei wanted a new home for its production plant
and office space, tec Architecture had to think outside the box—quickly.
The challenge was to reinvent the traditional office building model to
make an architectural and cultural statement. And develop the schematic
design for the 290,000 square-foot office building with its adjoining
200,000 square-foot production plant in just six weeks, with interior
design to follow as the structure was being built. As with most
manufacturing plants for commodities that are in high demand, the factory
needed to be finished as soon as possible, so the owner could remain
competitive with other market players.
Visit the case
studies page of Nemetschek North America's web site read the full
story and see more images in “Managing
a Multifaceted Project with VectorWorks Architect."
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