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Website: https://www.vectorworks.cn/cn/braceworks/ |
Braceworks™
The Braceworks™ add-on module for Vectorworks Spotlight and Designer provides design, production, and rigging professionals with an easy way to gauge the performance of temporary structures under load.
Product Overview
 | A ONE-OF-A-KIND TOOL The Braceworks™ add-on module for Vectorworks Spotlight provides design, production, and rigging professionals with an easy way to gauge the performance of temporary structures under load. This one-of-a-kind module helps ensure safety and compliance with engineering codes and standards, creating a completely integrated modeling, analysis, and documentation process in one interface. |
 | DISCOVER PEACE OF MIND Regulatory requirements, such as the Eurocodes, and increasing requirements from venues, municipalities, and building owners, are making it necessary for event design, A/V, and rigging companies to produce load and structure calculations for sign off by structural engineers. Rest assured, Braceworks is a solution you can trust. It was developed in collaboration with DeerSoft GmbH with input from rigging professionals, venue operators, and event planning firms, so we’re confident it will deliver the results you need. |
 | MAKE SMART DECISIONS With Braceworks, you can:
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New in 2022
 | BRACEWORKS HEAT MAP For better insight into how your rig is performing, you can now see the stresses rendered in 3D along a span in both top/plan and 3D projection views. |
 | BRACEWORKS AUTOCONNECT ENHANCEMENTS Braceworks now supports all common types of trusses, truss orientations, and truss connections, including ground-mounted supports. The Braceworks Auto Connect engine has been enhanced to support vertical truss symbols and male- female-type connectors, and it now handles triangle trusses correctly and efficiently. |
 | REPLACE TRUSS Counting truss lines manually and tracking them in Excel is now a thing of the past. With the replace truss feature in Braceworks 2019, you can adjust to the changing requirements of a specific production by quickly swapping out a truss with another one available in your current truss inventory and still maintain the overall system design. You can change the components of an existing truss system and replace the truss type and/or the manufacturer without having to edit each object individually. |
System Recommendations
The following are real-world system requirements for running Vectorworks 2022. In some demanding cases, we would suggest a more capable machine than is described in these hardware profiles. Likewise, there are some less demanding situations where Vectorworks will perform well on older hardware.
General Requirements | Macintosh | Windows |
Operating System | macOS 11 (Big Sur) macOS 10.15 (Catalina) | Windows 10 (64-bit) |
Minimum Hardware Profile | ||
Entry-level Profile | For small projects, simple models/drawings with a low level of detail, simple renderings (such as, small residential projects, small theaters, small landscaping design) | |
Processor | Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5, or better | |
RAM | 8GB or more | |
Graphics Card | 2GB VRAM or more, macOS: Metal GPUFamily1 or later, Windows: DirectX 11 compatible Some integrated graphics cards such as Intel Iris Plus/Pro graphics and AMD Radeon RX Vega series are acceptable for very simple models/drawings, but a dedicated graphics card is preferable. Vision requires a dedicated OpenGL 4.1 compatible graphics card with 2GB of VRAM or more, preferably released in the past three years (e.g. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 series, AMD Radeon RX 500 series). Using multiple view panes with different visibilities in all panes requires a graphics card with at least 2GB of VRAM. | |
Display Resolution: | 1440 x 900 or higher | |
Hard Disk: | 10GB free disk space is required for the installation. 30GB or more is required for a full installation with all libraries. | |
Recommended Hardware Profiles | ||
High-end Profile | For large projects, complex and very detailed models/drawings, complex renderings (such as large BIM projects, large entertainment venues, commercial sites, GIS, high end landscaping design, photorealistic rendering) | |
Processor | 3.0+ GHz Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 with eight cores, or better | |
RAM | 32GB or more | |
Graphics Card | 8GB VRAM or more, macOS: Metal GPUFamily2 or later, Windows: DirectX 11 compatible Vision requires a dedicated OpenGL 4.1 compatible graphics card with 8GB of VRAM or more, preferably released in the past three years (e.g. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 TI series, AMD Radeon RX 5000 series). | |
Display Resolution: | 1920 x 1080 or higher | |
Hard Disk: | 10GB of free disk space is required for the installation. 30GB or more is required for a full installation with all libraries. Case-sensitive file system volumes are not supported. Installing Vectorworks on flash storage (SSD) is recommended. | |
Mid-level Profile | For medium-size projects, complex models/drawings with medium level of details (such as small commercial projects, mid-size entertainment venues, residential site modeling) | |
Processor | 2.0+ GHz Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 with six cores, or better Apple M series | |
RAM | 16GB or more | |
Graphics Card | 3GB VRAM or more, macOS: Metal GPUFamily1 v4 or later, Windows: DirectX 11 compatible Vision requires a dedicated OpenGL 4.1 compatible graphics card with 4GB of VRAM or more, preferably released in the past three years (e.g. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 series, AMD Radeon RX Vega series). Using multiple view panes with different visibilities in all panes requires a graphics card with at least 3GB of VRAM, with 4GB or more recommended for large files. | |
Display Resolution: | 1920 x 1080 or higher | |
Hard Disk: | 10GB of free disk space is required for the installation. 30GB or more is required for a full installation with all libraries. Case-sensitive file system volumes are not supported. Installing Vectorworks on flash storage (SSD) is recommended. | |
Network Requirements for Project Sharing | Project sharing requires high-speed network connections. As the network bandwidth increases, so does project sharing performance. Slower network speeds can still provide a satisfactory user experience if you minimize operations that transfer large amounts of data over the network (such as committing changes to the project file or refreshing a local working file). | |
Server-based LAN Sharing: | Minimum: A Fast Ethernet (100Mbit/s) network connection with minimum of 50Mbit/s on upload. Recommended: A Gigabit Ethernet (1Gbit/s) network connection is required for large projects. Firewalls should allow network ports used by the Project Sharing Server. The default port is 22001. It is configurable during installation. The network must support HTTP 1.1 standard. Server-based LAN Sharing is the recommended method of sharing for teams on the same LAN. | |
| File-based LAN Sharing: | Minimum: A Fast Ethernet (100Mbit/s) network connection Recommended: A Gigabit Ethernet (1Gbit/s) network connection is required for large projects. | |
Cloud Sharing | Project sharing using cloud-based storage requires a high-speed internet connection (50Mbit/s or above). | |
Hard Drive | Storing large project files on flash storage (SSD) is recommended. | |
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