This proved to be a genius move on their part with a worldwide user base of 650,000 and more design professionals using their products. This was also the time when Vectorworks decided to broaden their reach from predominantly architecture and architecture-related professions to other niche industries. Since then, Vectorworks has not let that faith down but continues to be the pioneers in CAD and BIM technologies as well as cross-platform interactions. Nemetschek decided to diversify its acquisitions with Vectorworks – a testament to how much faith they had put in the company. Their new parent company, which at the time already had a hefty array of 40 branches in its network of acquired companies all over Europe, had never before invested in a company from the United States. Vectorworks would see another major milestone in its timeline as a company in 2000 with its acquisition by the German company Nemetschek. But the company would go through a final name change in the 1990s due to a move to Windows and from then on would be known as Vectorworks. When the company first started, it was working on the then-new Macintosh line of machines and they developed their first program – MiniCAD. Not long after, the company decided to change its name to Diehl Graphsoft after its founder, Richard Diehl, to lessen brand confusion with another BIM/CAD company called Graphisoft. Initially, the company started as Graphsoft, Inc.
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