Copyright and trademark information

Vectorworks, Inc., hereafter referred to as Vectorworks, and its licensors retain all ownership rights to the MiniCAD® Vectorworks® computer program and all other computer programs as well as documentation offered by Vectorworks. Use of Vectorworks products is governed by the license agreement accompanying your original media. The source code for such software is a confidential trade secret of Vectorworks. You may not attempt to decipher, decompile, develop or otherwise reverse engineer Vectorworks products. Information necessary to achieve interoperability with this software may be furnished upon request.

Vectorworks documentation

The Vectorworks User’s Guide was written and illustrated by Alexandra Duffy, Teresa Heaps, Kristin Bailey, Marlene Underwood, and Marley Rose.

This documentation, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license. The information in this guide is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Vectorworks. Vectorworks assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this documentation.

Except as permitted by such license, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the express prior written permission of Vectorworks. Permission is typically granted to reproduce materials for personal use, but under no circumstances may it be used for commercial purposes or for financial gain. To obtain permission, contact Vectorworks (email tech@vectorworks.net) or an authorized Vectorworks distributor if not in the USA.

Existing artwork or images that you may desire to scan or copy may be protected under copyright law. The unauthorized incorporation of such artwork into your work may be a violation of the rights of the author or illustrator. Please be sure to obtain any permission required from such authors.

Vectorworks, Renderworks, Braceworks, and ConnectCAD are registered trademarks of Vectorworks, Inc. The Vectorworks logo mark and the tagline Design without limits are registered trademarks of Vectorworks, Inc. SmartCursor and VectorScript are trademarks of Vectorworks, Inc.

The following are copyrights or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations:

App Store is a registered service mark of Apple, Inc.

Mac, QuickDraw 3D, QuickTime, and Retina are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.

iOS is a registered trademark of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is used under license by Apple, Inc.

Microsoft, Windows, and Excel are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

Android, YouTube, Google Play, Google Chrome, Google Cardboard, and Google Earth are trademarks of Google LLC.

Dropbox is a trademark of Dropbox, Inc.

Docker is a registered trademark of Docker, Inc.

Amazon, Kindle, Kindle Fire, the Amazon Kindle logo and the Kindle Fire logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

FileMaker is a trademark of FileMaker, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

LISTSERV is a registered trademark licensed to L-Soft international, Inc.

Adobe, Adobe PDF Library, Acrobat, Reader, and the Adobe logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Bluebeam and Revu are registered trademarks of Bluebeam Software, Inc.

Parasolid is a registered trademark of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

Cineware by Maxon, Redshift by Maxon, and Cinema 4D are registered trademarks of MAXON Computer GmbH, MAXON Computer Inc. and MAXON Computer Ltd.

Unreal and Twinmotion are registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc.

NVIDIA and RTX are registered trademarks, and Omniverse is a trademark, of NVIDIA Corporation.

USD is a trademark of Pixar Animation Studios.

BIMobject is a registered trademark of technology.

Rhino 3DM and Rhinoceros is a registered trademark of Robert McNeel and Associates.

Solibri is a registered trademark of Solibri, Inc.

AutoTURN Online is a product of Transoft Solutions, Inc.

OpenEXR is a trademark of Lucasfilm, Ltd.

ACIS and SAT are registered trademarks of Spatial Corporation.

Reprise License Manager (RLM) is a trademark of Reprise Software, Inc.

The Forbo flooring textures are based on textures supplied by Forbo Holding S.A.

Mosa. is a registered trademark of Koninklijke Mosa bv.

Arrow, book, and printer icons in the online help system from Default Icon by interactivemania are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0.

PANTONE® Colors displayed in the software application or in the user documentation may not match PANTONE-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE Color Publications for accurate color. PANTONE® and other Pantone, LLC. trademarks are the property of Pantone, Inc. ©Pantone, LLC, 2010.

Pantone, LLC is the copyright owner of color data and/or software that are licensed to Vectorworks to distribute for use only in combination with Vectorworks products. PANTONE Color Data and/or software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of the Vectorworks products.

RAL is a trademark registered by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office under No. 30524589 and by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) under no. 880225. The use is granted by the owner of the mark RAL gGmbH.

RAL CLASSIC, RAL DESIGN SYSTEM plus, and RAL EFFECT, © RAL, Bonn 2019.

ATTENTION! Please note that the representation of colors on digital tools can only approximate the actual RAL color shades as they are registered as varnish samples. Neither the quality of the present software nor the hardware used is responsible for this. The same relates to the printout of the presentation of the RAL Color Codes.

Times and Helvetica are trademarks of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its subsidiaries.

ITC Zapf Dingbats is a registered trademark of International Typeface Corporation.

SketchUp and 3D Warehouse are trademarks of Trimble Navigation Limited.

AutoCAD, Revit, FBX, and 3ds Max are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc.

Python is a registered trademark of the Python Software Foundation.

Xerces-C++ is made available under the Apache® Software License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

This software uses an FFmpeg executable downloaded from https://ffmpeg.org/download.html under GPL 2.1 license LGPLv2.1. FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the FFmpeg project.

The Renderworks Camera tool, Heliodon tool, and Existing Tree tool were developed by Julian Carr, OzCAD, Sydney, Australia.

Camera Match was created by Matthew Panzer, developer of PanzerCAD plug-ins.

ConnectCAD is a product of Vectorworks, Inc. and was created by Conrad Preen.

The Foliage tool was created by Andrea Facchinello, A|F Design.

Braceworks was created by DeerSoft GmbH. BRACEWORKS is registered in the United States and the European Union as a trademark of Vectorworks, Inc. View disclaimer-related information in the ReadMe file.

The television, video screen, LED screen, blended screen, blended projector, speaker, speaker array, stage lift, stage deck, stage plug, stage steps, and stage ramp were created by C. Andrew Dunning, Landru Design, Nashville, TN.

The hoist tools and cable tools were created by Sam Jones, Los Angeles, CA USA.

The Lighting Symbol Maintenance command, and the Lighting Pipe and Lighting Pipe Ladder tools were developed by Joshua Benghiat Lighting Design, BenghiatLighting.com

The caddetails.com library contains architecture and landscape architecture symbols provided by CADdetails Ltd.

Image-based Arroway textures from Arroway textures™.

A variety of water textures were provided by Dan Jansenson, author of the Remarkable Renderworks manual.

The Xfrog Plant Images library contains plant images by Xfrog®.

Laubwerk GmbH is the copyright owner of Laubwerk plant content and/or plug-in software, licensed to Vectorworks for distribution only in combination with specific Vectorworks products.

The Kohler plumbing fixture libraries supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on geometry from the Kohler Company.

The Marvin door and window libraries supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on geometry from the Marvin Company.

The Loewen door and window libraries supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on geometry from the Loewen Company.

The Weather Shield® door and window libraries supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on geometry from Weather Shield Mfg. Inc.

The AGA/Rayburn appliance library supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on geometry from AGA Foodservices Group Plc.

The Copper Beech Millwork molding profiles supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on geometry from Copper Beech Millwork, an Amherst Woodworking and Supply, Inc., Company.

The Sub-Zero and Wolf appliance libraries supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on geometry from the Sub-Zero Freezer Company, Inc., and the Wolf Appliance Company, Inc.

The Knoll furniture library supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products is based on geometry supplied by the Knoll Furniture company. For more information on their products, see knoll.com

The Herman Miller (HMI) furniture libraries supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on geometry from Herman Miller, Inc.

The Unilock® hatch library supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products is based on geometry from Unilock.

The Benjamin Moore® paint color palettes supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on color values supplied by Benjamin Moore & Co.

The Sherwin-Williams paint color palettes supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products are based on color values supplied by The Sherwin-Williams Company.

The Pittsburgh® Paints paint color palette supplied with certain Vectorworks Design Suite products is based on color values supplied by PPG Industries.

The Landmark plant database was created using public domain data. Vectorworks assumes no responsibility for inaccuracies, omissions, or errors in this data.

The AI visualizer feature uses open source image generation. Vectorworks assumes no responsibility for obtained images.

Property data for material resources were assembled from a number of public sources, including The Engineering ToolBox and others. Vectorworks assumes no responsibility for inaccuracies, omissions, or errors in this data.

Irrigation product images and catalog data based on information provided by Irritrol®, The Toro Company®, Rain Bird Corporation®, Hunter® Industries, and Netafim™, Netafim USA, Ltd. Netafim symbol libraries for use in the USA and Canada only.

Lightwright is a trademark of John McKernon.

High End Systems' lighting symbols provided by, and used with the permission of, High End Systems, Inc. High End Systems is a registered servicemark of High End Systems, Inc., a division of Barco N.V.

Clay Paky lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by Clay Paky S.P.A.

Coemar lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by Coemar manufacturing.

Martin® lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by Martin Professionals A/S.

Selecon lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by Selecon, a division of Philips Global Entertainment Lighting Group.

Vari-Lite® lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by Vari-Lite Corporation, a division of Philips Global Entertainment Lighting Group.

Color Kinetics™ lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by Color Kinetics™, a division of Philips Solid State Lighting Solutions.

James Thomas Lighting Symbols and Truss Symbols are based on geometry provided by James Thomas Engineering™, Ltd.

ADB lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by ADB-TTV Lighting Technologies.

DTS lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by DTS, The Lighting Company.

JB lighting symbols are based on geometry provided by JB Lighting.

Eurotruss truss symbols are based on geometry provided by Eurotruss.

Atlas Sound® speaker symbols are based on geometry provided by Atlas Sound Lp.

EAW Sound speaker symbols are based on geometry provided by EAW sound, a division of LOUD Technologies Inc.

d&b audiotechnik® speaker symbols are based on geometry provided by d&b audiotechnik GmbH.

Meyer Sound® speaker symbols are based on geometry provided by Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc.

Rosco gobo textures and color information provided by and used with the permission of Rosco Laboratories, Inc. Rosco is a registered trademark of Rosco Laboratories, Inc.

Apollo gobo textures and color information provided by and used with the permission of Apollo Design Technology, Inc. Apollo is a registered trademark of Apollo Design Technology, Inc.

GAM gobo textures and color information provided by and used with the permission of GAM the Great American Market, Inc. GAM is a registered trademark of GAM, Inc.

GOBOLAND gobo textures provided by and used with permission of GOBOLAND. GOBOLAND is a registered trademark.

GoboMan gobo textures and color information provided by, and used with the permission of, GoboMan.

LEE gobo textures and color information provided by and used with the permission of LEE Filters USA.

Thomas Register is a trademark of, and PartSpec is a registered trademark of Thomas Publishing Corp.

The subdivision functionality in Vectorworks was developed using Pixar’s OpenSubdiv libraries.

Third-party products installed using the Install Partner Products command were developed by the organizations indicated on the product page, and any applicable trademarks are held by those organizations. View disclaimer-related information in the ReadMe file.

All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.

For Defense Agencies: Restricted Rights Legend. Use, reproduction, or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights of Technical Data and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013.

For civilian agencies: Restricted Rights Legend. Use, reproduction, or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in subparagraphs (a) through (d) of the commercial Computer Software Restricted Rights clause at 52.227-19. Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States. The contractor/manufacturer is Vectorworks, Incorporated, 8621 Robert Fulton Drive, Suite 200, Columbia, MD, 21046, USA.

Contributions

Contributions were provided by Fatemeh Abbasinejad, Robert Anderson, Sarah Barrett, Andrew Bell, Rick Berge, Kesoon Chance, Tim Connors, Dave Donley, Brandon Eckstorm, Juan Fabbiani, Marissa Farrell, Lance Fulton, Wes Gardner, Eric Gilbey, Yordan Kostadinov, Tony Kostreski, Luc Lefebvre, Kevin Linzey, Gunther Miller, Katarina Ollikainen, Matthew Panzer, Senthil Prabu, Conrad Preen, Walid Remaili, Luis Ruiz, Biplab Sarkar, Moritz Staffel, Bozhidar Stanchev, Luka Stefanovic, Tom Urie, Justin Van Hassel, Don Ward, Patrick Winkler, Tom White, and Shengxi Wu.

Thank you to Susan Collins.

Riccardo Martire’s MasterWorks contest file submission was used as the basis for a variety of illustrations. Sam Jones’ hoists file was used for hoist illustrations. Evanston Green Townhomes file used as the basis for illustrations, courtesy Nathan Kipnis Architects, Inc. Camera Match project files created by Matthew Panzer, Stephen duPont, Jr. RA NCARB (with William Cromley and Tom Cutler (Bhide & Hall Architects, P.A.)). Welcome page Landmark image courtesy of OJB Landscape Architecture and Dan Schwalm. Welcome page Spotlight image courtesy of Tim Deiling and Pamela Raith. Welcome page Architect image courtesy of Tono Mirai Architects. Special thanks to Norm Harris (Marvin Windows and Doors). Thanks to Don Seidel for Notes Manager information.

Registration and updates

If you have not already done so, please register your copy of the Vectorworks products with Vectorworks at secure.vectorworks.net/register.

If you would like to receive automatic notification of Vectorworks product updates, you can select to check for updates on a weekly or monthly basis from the Session pane of Vectorworks preferences (Voorkeuren Vectorworks: Categorie Sessie).

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