Scripts are like little tools that can automate multiple steps, streamline tasks that would take hundreds of clicks, or create objects you need repeatedly. These particular scripts are useful to at least one designer, and many of them were written by someone who has no business writing scripts. These scripts aren’t works of art. They aren’t fancy. Some aren’t even spelled correctly. But they are time-saving tools for hardworking CAD users with drawings to finish before the coffee runs out. In this session, you'll receive a toolkit full of little scripts. Not every tool is for every job, but there is probably at least one that you will find useful. You’re ready for this —you’re already doing it the hard way.
Video
All Industries
1 Hour
Advanced
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Discover how to manage a library of scripts.
Learn how to execute scripts written in Vectorscript or Python.
Understand the basics of how scripts are structured and how to read them.
Learn how to make minor changes to scripts to fit them to your needs.
In complex design processes with a growing number of rules and regulations, the architects at GASA, one of Norway's leading firms for sustainable architecture, believe it’s important to stay focused on the core of their profession: designing inspiring and well-functioning environments for everyday life. So, they ask themselves: how can we reach the level of complexity it takes to design and develop a large, public school as a BIM project in the most simple and efficient way, but still meet all the strict requirements? How can we make do with fewer lines, layers, and classes? How can we get less overall clutter to achieve efficient files with simpler IFC objects? And what tools do you really need to get the job done? Find out how the team at GASA creates simple and robust concepts with as few elements as possible.
Video
All Industries
1 Hour
Beginner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Demonstrate how to refine a workspace so you can focus on the design process.
Shed light on which tools are necessary and which you can hide.
Learn how to simplify templates to avoid gigantic, overloaded files.
Examine one or two large ongoing school projects, and learn how the project team streamlines the workflow in different phases to save time.
Utilizing a file structure that can be implemented at initial concept and adapt as the architectural process evolves can help streamline the design workflow. Flansburgh Architects, in conjunction with the Vectorworks Architectural Support team, has gone through the steps to create a framework tailored to a variety of project types and phases of design and documentation. Attendees will obtain an understanding of the key elements that were involved in creating the file structure of templates and resources and gain insight into how this process can be adapted to meet their individual needs.
Video
All Industries
1 Hour
Beginner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Discover how to structure an office-standard Resource Manager that allows users to easily access typical project resources.
Explore how customized Workspaces can simplify tool sets and menus, allowing for adaption by individual users to suit their needs.
Observe how to streamline the file transfer protocol with both the design team and consulting engineers who may use other software packages.
Explore how to use a tool such as Vectorworks in the scenic/set design studio. While focusing on the design process, we'll also discuss methods, procedures, and workflows useful for accomplishing design problems. Discover a variety of scenic styles, massing and line study looks, and rendering and documentation techniques for fully utilizing the software to design scenery. Finally, examine presentation features in Vectorworks and powered by Vectorworks Cloud Services.
Video
Entertainment
40 Minutes
Beginner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn Vectorworks' techniques for venue acquisition, collecting information, and brainstorming.
Explore tools and techniques to model sophisticated shapes in 3D, model organic masses, and represent materials and lighting effects.
Learn how to create design and construction elevations from the model; Learn about drafting without duplicating the model with Viewports and Sheet Layers.
Discover the potential of presentation features in Vectorworks including Panoramas, Webview, and Vectorworks presentations, powered by Vectorworks Cloud Services.
Go from Vision zero to Vision hero with these tips and tricks. Discover how to easily send fixture, focus data, and model information directly to Vision. Attendees will also learn how to experiment with looks and cues, customize fixtures, and communicate with all DMX consoles.
Video
Entertainment
1 Hour
Beginner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn how to import and manage MVR and ESC files.
Understand how to customize settings to get the correct balance of looks and performance.
Learn how to set up DMX Transforms, Cameras, and other controls.
Still verbally describing how light will respond in a theatrical environment? Still figuring out photometries the old-fashioned way? How about using Spotlight as a "one-stop shopping" resource? This presentation by Lighting and Scenic Designer Stephen Jones showcases how to create 3D lighting plots for both the creative and technical sides of the entertainment industry.
Video
Entertainment
1 Hour 45 Minutes
Beginner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn how to produce 3D drafting of lighting plots.
Learn how to use photometrics to plan theatrical lighting.
Learn the power of Spotlight as a previsualization tool.
CASE STUDY - OVERSEEING SEVERAL REPERTORY LIGHT PLOTS AT SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA
Spoleto Festival USA, based in Charleston, South Carolina, hosts domestic and international theatrical productions every year. In 17 days, over 250 performances take place throughout the city, but every production has to share its stage with someone else. It is repertory lighting and scenery at its craziest, with rapid-fire changeovers between shows choreographed down to the moment. In this session, Steve Shelley, president of Field Template LLC, will show the processes he used—and would use again today—in Vectorworks software to create the documentation needed to pull off such a combination of complex events.
Video
Entertainment
1 Hour
Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Examine how to create light plots and sections using class and layer hierarchy.
Utilize saved views to construct and compare scenic and lighting changes.
Recognize how to use viewports to create draft-displaying scenic and lighting changes.
Discover how to provide PDF documentation in both imperial and metric scales.
How do you know when you have made a bad production? James Simpson, lighting visualizer at the Royal Opera House, discusses the benefits of design visualization for producing opera and ballet by improving the efficiency, speed, and quality of the finished production.
Simpson will show how the Royal Opera House is using the latest technology, such as virtual and augmented reality, to make visualization more immersive and practical to a design team. He will also explain how new technology could have a significant impact on the way we design for entertainment in the future.
Video
Entertainment
1 Hour
Beginner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn how the Royal Opera House uses visualization to improve the production design process.
See how virtual and augmented reality can be used to improve designs.
Learn about new technology that will have an impact on design processes in the future.
Discover the tools behind good visualization and learn how they fit into the design process.
This presentation, with product specialist Vickie Claiborne, highlights techniques for using Vectorworks in the creative process, including conceptual designs through finished plots, the practical workflow using Vectorworks tools to export patch to the GrandMA2 console and export reports to Lightwright, and the previsualization workflow, including preparing and exporting a VWX drawing for use in a visualization program such as Vision.
Video
Entertainment
2 Hours
Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn the best techniques for using Vectorworks in the creative process, including conceptual designs through finished plots.
Export lighting patch information to the GrandMA2 console.
Utilize instrument data exchange with Lightwright.
Optimize, prepare, and export a VWX drawing for use in a visualization program such as Vision.
Vectorworks Spotlight software is a complete entertainment production package, but not everyone is using it to the fullest. Before becoming overwhelmed by all the technical specifications of a production, the client needs to be sold on a concept. In this class, Jim Woodward, senior entertainment product specialist at Vectorworks, Inc., will cover the efficiency and capabilities of Vectorworks to communicate different ideas into a successful proposal.
Video
Entertainment
1 Hour
Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Organize workspaces for efficient conceptual design.
Develop class and layer strategies for comparing different concepts.
Create templates for presentation and proposals using viewports and sheet layers.
Use project sharing for team collaboration and revisions.
INTEGRATING VECTORWORKS INTO THE LIGHTING, PLANNING, AND WORKFLOW OF FILM AND TV
This session will consist of an in-depth discussion and presentation on how Vectorworks is vital to the planning and workflow process within a lighting department. By using Vectorworks and working the 3D space as a department, we are better prepared for attacking any project at hand and sharing our ideas with other parties. Lighting console programmer Scott Barnes and lighting designer Joshua Thatcher will go into more detail about this, and also cover how Vectorworks has been used on some of Hollywood’s biggest motion pictures, such as “Iron Man 1,” “Iron Man 2,” “The Conjuring 2,” “Guardians of the Galaxy 2,” and the upcoming “Avengers: Infinity War.”
Video
Entertainment
2 Hours
Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Explore the use of Vectorworks for the planning and workflow process of a lighting department.
Learn how Vectorworks has been used on major motion pictures.
QUICK TIPS AND TRICKS FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT LIGHTING DESIGNER
Gain efficient workflow techniques and valuable time-saving tips from entertainment lighting designer Jim Rood. During this session, Jim will explore alternative paths to achieve a better understanding of Vectorworks capabilities within the entertainment lighting industry. Attendees will discover the most powerful functions that Vectorworks has to offer.
Video
Entertainment
1 Hour
Beginner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn quick tips to produce high-quality rendering sets.
Explore 3D modeling techniques using basic Vectorworks tools.
