Welcome to the how to create GDTF lighting device learning path.
This 6 chapter series introduces you to the process of creating GDTF lighting devices.
Each chapter covers a key step in the process and the relavent page of the GDTF builder.
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Entertainment
50m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Understand what resoruces are required to create a GDTF lighting device.
Learn how to model a light.
Define the spectral and photometric behavior for emitters and filters.
Configure gobo, color, and effect wheels.
Understand how to configure DMX mapping and attribute control.
Set up control macros and understand how to use the Summary page and builder error messages to test your fixture.
Join Jazz Hutsby, lighting designer and technician, for an in depth walkthrough of our new Vectorworks Odyssey app for VR headset. He’ll showcase how the app works and give a glimpse of how Odyssey was used in Royal Conservatoire of Scotland production of Sweet Charity.
Video
Entertainment
46m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
How to add Vectorworks model to Odyssey app.
Understand how to use and benefit from Vectorworks Odyssey.
Sharing your model in Odyssey with anyone - regardless of whether they use Vectorworks.
Discover a real life use of Odyssey app in Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Sweet Charity case study.
In this session, Adele Pierre of Adele Pierre Landscape
Architect Inc. will demonstrate how small-scale interventions can create
significant, positive change in urban settings. In the City of Hamilton,
Ontario, city-owned boulevards have been converted from asphalt into vibrant
rain gardens and pollinator habitats, creating a cohesive green space in a
highly industrialized neighborhood. This webinar will follow the process of
site selection, information gathering, garden creation, and documentation of
environmental impacts.
To receive 1 LA CES PDH and 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
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Landscapes
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore how integrated GIS assists evaluating
potential sites and creating georeferenced base plans.
Understand how cost-effective public green
spaces can be designed for easier installation.
Identify how design intent and environmental
benefits can be communicated to the public.
Recognize how several projects cumulatively
scale up the environmental impact. Plus, learn how annotation features can aid
in reporting and communicating said impact.
Real-time previsualization is available directly inside Vectorworks to bring you intuitive, live control of lighting fixtures and the ability to test run your show without leaving the application. Explore countless lighting and scenic possibilities and then experiment, edit, and adjust to your satisfaction based on your previsualization.
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Entertainment
6m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about Showcase, the new real-time previsualization mode, released with Vectorworks Spotlight 2025.
With a tool that balances automation with flexible customization, you can create finely detailed countertops and easily achieve quality visuals and reports. Manage countertops across projects with customizable styles and find superior control of design features like overhangs and backsplashes. With efficient modeling and automatic hole cuts, you’ll have the time to create whatever you can imagine without having to worry about manual processes.
Video
Buildings/Interiors
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Countertops tool, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Design accurate curbs, borders, and edging elements based on profile extrudes or individual unit placement. Create these elements as freestanding or seamlessly integrate with hardscapes and landscape areas. Specify corner and insertion details and define front and back curb modifier points for easy terrain manipulation. Design styles will make you more consistent and save you time as you worry less about needing revisions.
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Buildings/Landscapes
4m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Curb tool, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Assign classifications to Vectorworks objects and sub-parts and manage them centrally with a rules-and-criteria-based system that is easy to follow. Save time and reduce risk for errors with automated application of local and national classification standards in a BIM collaboration and specification writing workflow.
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Buildings
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new BIM Construction Classification feature, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Show, ghost, hide, or isolate specific objects with individual visibility control. Navigate to specific parts of your model by isolating objects and create custom drawings or viewports to clearly communicate your design intent. Apply object visibility directly within your design layer or save it to viewports and data visualizations. Find fast, flexible workflows, while also working harmoniously with Class and Layer visibilities.
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All Industries
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Object Level Visibility feature, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Vectorworks Spotlight 2025 includes several user interface and workflow efficiency improvements. From Truss insertion and alignment improvements, to impproved light fixture snapping, automatic numbering, schematic view creation, and more.
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Entertainment
4m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about additional improvements released with Vectorworks Spotlight 2025.
Take a versatile approach to your projects with the ability to select multiple walls and apply surface finishes in a single operation. Then manage, annotate, and create reports with customizable project finishes and data visualization to help you streamline reporting, leaving you the time to focus on customizing your space.
Video
Buildings/Interiors
4m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the improvements to Room Finishes, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Keep your files up to date with GDTF Mapping, giving you accurate fixture information to avoid errors. Map GDTF files to fixtures with direct access to GDTF-Share to download and import the files in one action from within Vectorworks. Automatically update all GDTF profiles with one command and store assigned GDTFs within their lighting devices.
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Entertainment
2m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new GDTF File Mapping feature, released with Vectorworks Spotlight 2025.
Quickly and easily establish a geographic survey or reference point with a single operation, saving you time and avoiding complications among collaborators. Perfect for both new and existing projects, place a survey point anywhere in the document to specify coordinates, angles to true north, and elevation information in both 2D and 3D.
Video
Buildings/Landscapes
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Survey Point and Reference Points, released with Vectorworks 2025.
