Design, Document, Visualize Your Project Using Vectorworks
Architecture Product Specialist Ryan Butler walks you through the process of designing a project using Vectorworks and shows you some interesting workflows to excel in your studio.
Video
Buildings
44m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand various 3D modeling techniques to effectively design your projects.
Discover the power of rendering tools available in Vectorworks to help visualize your designs.
Learn how to create drawings from your 3D models to communicate your project’s design intent.
Review best practices for creating great presentations to impress your professors.
Elevate Your Experience: What’s New in Vectorworks 2025
Explore the latest updates in Vectorworks 2025 designed to boost design efficiency, streamline 3D modelling, and enhance collaboration presented by Jonathan Reeves, an architect, author, and Vectorworks expert.
Through real-world project examples, you'll discover how these new features can transform your workflow. Key highlights include Object Visibility, Two Point Perspective, Revit & DWG Collaboration, Room Finishes, and AI Visualisation updates. Reeves will also dive into exciting enhancements in Vectorworks Cloud and much more. Plus, he’ll share extra tips and tricks.
Vectorworks & Jetbuilt - Integration Using ConnectCAD
This demo explores the integration between Vectorworks and Jetbuilt, showcasing two workflows for utilizing both programs effectively for systems integrators. It begins with exporting data from Jetbuilt to Vectorworks via a CSV worksheet and demonstrates importing, mapping, and creating devices using ConnectCAD. The second method involves exporting data from Vectorworks to Jetbuilt, emphasizing the use of worksheets, proper formatting, and seamless transfer of project information, ensuring compatibility and efficiency across platforms.
Video
Entertainment
11m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how to integrate workflows between Jetbuilt and Vectorworks, including importing and exporting project data via CSV files.
Learn to utilize ConnectCAD in Vectorworks to create and manage devices based on imported data from Jetbuilt.
Explore best practices for formatting worksheets and assigning device details to ensure compatibility and accuracy during data exchange between the two programs.
Design, Document, Visualize Your Project Using Vectorworks
Architecture Product Specialist Ryan Butler walks you through the process of designing a project using Vectorworks and shows you some interesting workflows to excel in your studio.
Video
Buildings
44m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand various 3D modeling techniques to effectively design your projects.
Discover the power of rendering tools available in Vectorworks to help visualize your designs.
Learn how to create drawings from your 3D models to communicate your project’s design intent.
Review best practices for creating great presentations to impress your professors.
Join us for a data-driven exploration of how female lighting
professionals fare in theater, concerts, film, broadcast, or any other
discipline in the traditionally male-dominated industry.
In this webinar, Amy D Lux, founder and principal designer
at LoboLux Design, Women in Lighting and Design board member, will navigate
data across various facets of the lighting field. Drawing on statistics from
the past decade and her own experiences, the talented designer will illuminate
the similarities and differences facing men and women in the industry.
Video
Entertainment
59m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Analyze gender representation in multiple
lighting disciplines.
Understand market and regulatory differences for
lighting designers in the industry.
Explore strategies for enhancing diversity
within the lighting industry.
This file introduces the power of Showcase to achieve real-time previsualization directly inside Vectorworks Spotlight, allowing you to test run the show, experiment, and edit to your satisfaction.
BIM Interoperability for Landscape Architecture: IFC Exchanges in Vectorworks
Vectorworks Landmark offers the site design professional BIM workflows which can be intuitively integrated into their workflow. Landscape-focused tools such as plants, landscape areas, hardscapes, terrain models, and irrigation provide purpose-built 2D and 3D objects, which carry the information needed from those objects to enable analysis and documentation just like the building-focused tools do in architectural BIM software without the compromises.
For collaboration with other BIM-participating professionals, Vectorworks Landmark operates through the non-proprietary BIM format “Industry Foundation Classes” (IFC). Firms can export and share a data-rich model, treated consistently among other BIM software, as well as analyze with user-defined criteria within model checking software like Solibri.
This course will introduce you to the IFC file format, objects, and property sets, as well as guide you through managing this data for efficent file exchanges.
Text
Landscapes
1h
Advanced
Learning Objectives
Learn about the IFC file format.
Explore the IFC object tags for standard site objects.
Learn how to apply IFC data to objects.
Learn how to use the IFC Data Manager command and how to generate COBie reports.
Understand how to export an IFC file from Vectorworks.
Discover how digital tools can elevate your softscape design and streamline plant specification workflows, making it easier to meet your project’s sustainability goals. In this session, we’ll guide you through incorporating metrics like Biodiversity Net Gain and Urban Greening Factor directly within your design software, eliminating the need to switch between platforms. Learn how to generate customised reports and worksheets tailored to your planting proposals. Open to all experience levels, this session will showcase new features and their benefits, empowering you to communicate your planting designs effectively with clients, contractors, and other project stakeholders.
Video
Landscapes
52m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Enhance softscape design and plant specification workflows through digital tools.
Integrate sustainability metrics (e.g., Biodiversity Net Gain, Urban Greening Factor) directly within design software.
Simplify the creation of customised reports and worksheets for planting proposals.
Offer insights suitable for all experience levels to optimise design and workflow efficiency.
Did you know you can elevate your design and preproduction
process with Vectorworks Spotlight?
A brand-new feature in Vectorworks Spotlight, Showcase,
brings powerful tools like a DMX recorder with playback controls and a timeline
that allows you to choose where in the DMX recording you want to go, expanding
your options for documenting and presenting your entertainment designs. With
Showcase, you can explore blocking and positioning concepts, experiment with
live video feeds, and integrate dynamic elements directly within Vectorworks.
Join entertainment product specialist Jesse
Cogdell for this webinar to see how Showcase can enhance your workflows. He’ll
guide you through its key settings, demonstrate camera setups, explore video
textures, and showcase DMX transforms — all through practical examples you can
incorporate into your projects.
Video
Entertainment
41m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how to configure Showcase settings for
performance and visual quality.
Learn how Showcase can be added to existing workflows for
presentation and documentation.
Gain insight for movement and position planning in Showcase
with DMX transforms.
Firms are adopting
Building Information Modeling (BIM) at a faster rate than ever before. To make
the most of the tools at your disposal, you need a complete picture of the
options available to make a better-informed decision on achieving more
effective project collaboration.
This presentation, hosted by Vectorworks' Luka Stefanovic, will demonstrate how you
can collaborate with your project stakeholders at every project stage, review
tools, and workflows to help you start a project on the right foot, and
demonstrate success in every phase of the project from design to construction
and building operation.
To receive 1 AIA LU, 1 CORE AIBC LU, and 1 CORE AAA LEARNING HOUR, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Video
Buildings
44m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how to plan for a successful collaboration process — using a BIM execution plan and delivering a compliant BIM model.
Evaluate the best options for collaboration using various file formats and software.
Discover best practices for model coordination during the design phases and using model validation and issue management workflows.
Comprehend owner requirements for built asset management and ensure correct data delivery for a successful project handoff.
ConnectCAD Schematics and Rack Design in Vectorworks
Join Vectorworks solutions specialist Tom White as he explores the powerful features of ConnectCAD 2025! Learn how to create detailed 2D schematics and design intricate 3D racks with ease. Discover how ConnectCAD can automate your workflow, providing real-time feedback and instantly highlighting issues and inconsistencies.
