temporary lines enable a quick functioning, because the lines disappear automatically as soon as the command has terminated.

During the designing of details sometimes it´s helpful to find out without a break the dimension of a section that depend on another section.

In this example the red line is defined trough a length (750mm) and a fix distance to the center of the dashed circle.

Vectorworks allow the determination of nearly every point of construction.

der relative origin automatically shows the coordinates 0/0, as soon as a snap point is determined. Afterwards it´s easy to position the object exactly.