The purpose of this guide is to provide you with an understanding of what “BIM collaboration” can be – it does not have one single approach, workflow, or software – and how to collaborate best for the needs of your project.
The information in this guide will allow you to define “BIM collaboration” and describe the different ways of collaborating on BIM projects.
Buildings
Buildings
30m
Advanced
Learning Objectives
You will be able to explain the roles, responsibilities, and fundamental best practices of collaborating with consultants on a building information model.
You will be able to identify and differentiate the key tasks involved in a collaborative BIM process.
You will be able to establish the collaboration requirements of an upcoming project as well as evaluate and choose the right tools and processes to accomplish the tasks.
The Asharoken House is a 3 story, single-family home located in Northport, NY on Long Island. The site is located on a sand bar overlooking Northport Bay and the site's flat landscape is prone to flooding during severe weather conditions. The home is designed to fit within the fabric of the surrounding neighborhood, where most lots are long and narrow, and the building materials align with a coastal motif.
The project includes a comprehensive 3D BIM model with various elements, such as stories and site details like site modifiers, hardscapes, and other site-specific features, interior furnishings like furniture, countertops, cabinets, and light fixtures, organized by style. Traditional building objects, like walls, windows, doors, and more are organized by styles for consistency.
Join landscape industry expert Marketa Hermova for an enlightening webinar on estimating embodied carbon and utilizing tools that empower you to make impactful design choices regarding material and product specifications. This session will also showcase how you can actively tackle a landscape project's carbon footprint through workflows highlighted in a project case study.
To receive 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Landscapes
Landscapes
1h
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Get an overview of Vectorworks Embodied Carbon Calculator
(VECC), a pre-formatted worksheet that allows you to estimate the project's
embodied carbon.
Explore the data difference in Vectorworks Landmark and
learn about a custom record format for tracking a material's attributes,
properties, and embodied carbon.
Gain knowledge of the existing workflows and the embodied
carbon assessment for a project in its early or advanced development stage.
Concrete is a rather ubiquitous, tested, proven, and versatile building material. It has been used for literally thousands of years to create long-lasting man-made structures of all types, including buildings. Architects in the past few centuries have found it to be an appealing choice to express dynamic and vibrant designs in ways that other materials could not. The ability to structurally reinforce concrete and form it into custom, free-flowing shapes can give it an organic quality that is different from most other materials. This can produce more design freedom and the ability to incorporate unique and custom features into a buildings as a part of the basic construction process.
Buildings
Buildings
49m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Explore the historical and contemporary evolution of concrete and its use in key building material.
Investigate the design issues related to using concrete as a durable, long-lasting primary building material.
Assess design strategies related to creating buildings that can be innovative in shape and form and meet structural and fire codes.
Identify the role that design software and building information modeling can play in achieving exceptional concrete building designs.
Vectorworks & Bluebeam - Integration Using the Bluebeam Connection
This tutorial guides you through integrating Vectorworks with Bluebeam Cloud, enabling real-time collaboration on documents across all project phases. You'll learn how to create and manage Bluebeam sessions directly from Vectorworks, publish document sets to review, review and markup documents in real-time, and download markups back into Vectorworks. This video also covers converting markups into BCF issues for streamlined issue management, providing a seamless workflow for designers and collaborators.
All Industries
All Industries
5m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand the integration between Vectorworks and Bluebeam Cloud. Learners will be able to explain how to connect Vectorworks projects to Bluebeam Cloud, including signing into a Bluebeam account, creating review sessions, and inviting collaborators.
Apply collaboration tools in Bluebeam Cloud. Learners will be able to use Bluebeam Cloud tools to add markups, comments, and manage permissions in real-time collaboration sessions, ensuring efficient communication and organization.
Utilize markup and issue management features. Learners will be able to download markups from Bluebeam Cloud into Vectorworks, manage them as collaboration objects, and convert them into BCF issues for streamlined BIM collaboration workflows.
Revit Interoperability with Vectorworks Landmark: A Guide
This guide will focus on file exchanges Vectorworks Landmark (or Design Suite) design professionals have with collaborators using Autodesk’s Revit® proprietary format (RVT) and the Revit family file format (RFA). With its 2017 version, Vectorworks introduced RVT and RFA import capabilities, and with version 2020, RVT export was introduced, meeting the requests of many users being required to receive and share using these formats. With the 2023 version, Revit referencing was introduced, enabling updates to the RVT or RFA files collaborators share. Since these releases, and with the help of the Open Design Alliance (ODA) libraries, these exchanges have continued to see enhancements, making the user collaboration experience easier.
Landscapes
Landscapes
45m
Advanced
Learning Objectives
Learn how to confirm a Revit file for import to Vectorworks.
Review Revit import options in Vectorworks.
Explore workgroup referencing considerations and georeference configuration settings.
In Vectorworks 2025, users can configure multi-circuit cabling with new settings, including circuit numbering and naming. The twofer configuration allows for easy selection and assignment to connectors. Fixtures are positioned on a truss for better visibility, and a pass-through capability enables daisy chaining lights. The system supports various numbering schemes and displays cable run IDs, ensuring flexibility and clarity in connections.
Entertainment
Entertainment
7m
Advanced
Learning Objectives
Configure and manage multi-circuit cabling preferences: Participants will be able to set up and utilize cable preferences for multi-circuit cabling, including assigning cable IDs to twofers and customizing numbering schemes for efficient circuiting and cable management.
This Tips & Tricks video will demonstrate how to attach custom records to a lighting symbol and access it along side the other lighting parameters in the Object Info Palette
Entertainment
Entertainment
7m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Learn how to connect custom records to the lighting device parameters list
Join lighting designer Joshua
Benghiat as he takes you behind the scenes of the Broadway production of Our Town at the Barrymore
Theatre, directed by Kenny Leon and lit by Allen Lee Hughes.
Benghiat, associate lighting
designer for the production, will share his process for designing and executing
a complex lighting plan, balancing the team’s artistic vision with technical
precision. Learn how he tackled unique design challenges — such as hanging
lanterns, unconventional audience seating, and limited fixture placement —
while leveraging digital tools like Vectorworks and BeamViz for visualization
and pre-planning.
This session will highlight the
role of 3D modeling, visualization, and data visualization in streamlining the
lighting workflow, offering valuable insights for designers at all levels.
Entertainment
Entertainment
45m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Understand the design challenges and
problem-solving strategies in developing a Broadway lighting plot.
Explore how digital tools like Vectorworks,
BeamViz, and 3D visualization enhance pre-planning and collaboration.
Gain insights into executing and adjusting a
lighting design from concept through tech rehearsals.
Take a tour through the world of AI-powered landscape design.
This webinar is your passport to understanding how
artificial intelligence is transforming the built environment. From Generative
AI applications optimizing design and analysis workflows to robots monitoring
wetland restoration and dry stacking stone walls, you’ll witness compelling
case studies of how AI can be a collaborator — not just a tool — in the design and
planning process.
To receive 1 LA CES PDH and 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Landscapes
Landscapes
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Gain a reasonable understanding of the field and applications of artificial intelligence and their context in the built environment.
Examine case studies of AI integration in landscape and urban design.
Learn mental
models for human-AI partnership in the design process.
