PHILADELPHIA, PA, Apr 28, 2015 — Vectorworks is known to be a company that punches above its weight. So it was only fitting that it threw its big party, during the first ever Vectorworks Design Summit, near where Sylvester Stallone, in the iconic role of Rocky Balboa, ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In attendance were about 300 conference goers. According to Vectorworks, which is part of the Nemetschek group of companies, the total number of users is half a million. Luckily for those of us counting on a free dinner, they didn't all show up.
The band plays on. The first ever Vectorworks Design Summit in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You wish you were invited to parties like this.
That’s me on the left, next to Mark Hewick, Tara Grant and Jamie Delaney of Vectorworks and Cristiano Sacchi of Novedge. The Rocky statue was first shunned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Boxers don’t fit in with the museum’s demographic. But bowing to popular sentiment, it was moved here.
Running up the steps in front of the museum. It may be a requirement if you are in Philadelphia. Here are several from Vectorworks who oblige — even if they have to take off their heels!
Diana, the first thing visitors see as they enter the Philadelphia Museum of Art, keeps an eye on the Vectorworks party.
David Chadwick, CAD journalist and amateur painter, explains the finer points of impressionism to a skeptical museum security guard.
Lennin Mireles and Scott Hansen, both ace Vectorworks users. Lennin’s rendering graces the cover of the Summit book. Scott manages the Vectorworks users at sustainABLE, a Chicago design firm.
Richard Diehl, father of Vectorworks (MiniCAD when it first launched), and currently its chairman, entertains Steve Johnson, head of User Interaction and Research.
Degas’s Little Dancer, one of the museum’s most prized treasures, was on exhibit as Vectorworks Design Summit party goers roamed the entire first floor of the museum.
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