Panel diagrams are the backbone of
seamless installations for system integrators and audiovisual installers; with
ConnectCAD's Panel Builder workflow, you can streamline the creation of panel
diagrams, enabling precise documentation of cable connections and equipment
layouts. This workflow ensures accuracy during installation and facilitates
efficient troubleshooting and maintenance post-deployment.
From large-scale AV installations to
intricate system integrations, ConnectCAD's Panel Builder workflow elevates the
efficiency and precision of panel diagram creation —enhancing the overall
success of your projects.
Video
Entertainment
8m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Create panels from your
Schematic using the Create Panel View command.
Build your Panels first,
then create Schematic Devices.
Thinking about the possibility of changing software may feel daunting, but you can take on the learning curve and succeed. And when you do, there are many tangible benefits you will gain.
Join Neil Barman, Vectorworks Architect product specialist, Architect AIBC, in this webinar as he discusses techniques for learning a new software and approaching Vectorworks. He'll demonstrate foundational strategies to help you get started in Vectorworks, provide tips for working smarter, not harder, and equip you with support resources to improve your skills once you move to Vectorworks.
Video
Buildings
31m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Acquire seven simple strategies for testing
Vectorworks features during your trial period.
Assess which Vectorworks features yield the most
significant learning (and efficiency) gains, improving your design workflow.
Gain familiarity navigating the user interface
to locate and deploy the nine essential tools and commands for designing and
documenting your project in Vectorworks Architect.
Access Vectorworks' instructional and technical
support resources, such as onboarding paths, Vectorworks University, and the
Online Help System, to grow your knowledge and skills.
Though 3D-modeled landscapes are becoming more common in
design workflows, many still hesitate to involve valuable techniques in all
areas of their design workflow.
A key benefit to incorporating 3D and BIM in your landscape
design, beyond selling, is analysis. In this session, you'll learn how to
leverage the power of solar, terrain, building, and landscape feature modeling
to better analyze site conditions, advise clients, and validate design choices.
By integrating 3D with 2D design workflows, there's less
disruption in getting to a sellable, better-performing solution for your
clients.
Video
Landscapes
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Recognize how modeled terrains can visualize grade changes
and analyze for cut/fill, slope, and surface drainage flow.
Understand how sun and shade studies can analyze existing
conditions and propose landscape solutions to your clients.
Realize where integrating 3D workflows can be less
disruptive to design development and build efficiencies for each subsequent
project.
Learn how 3D objects can provide crucial estimating data for
costing and material reports.
Join Vectorworks on creative journey
of crafting customised symbols, materials and other resources that can help you
to create bespoke landscape plans. In this session, we will share some of the
tips and tricks to generate your own resources in 2D and 3D. Using workgroup
libraries, we will explore ways to save, edit and share content with your
colleagues and project co-workers. Stay on track with updating your firm’s
libraries while using customised content and producing plans that meet the
industry standard. Suitable for all levels, we will explore some of the new
features that can help you to optimise the graphics of your landscape plans and
specifications.
Combine the strength of Vectorworks with the speed of AI image generation powered by Stable Diffusion. Directly available within the Vectorworks interface, this experimental feature uses Vectorworks Cloud Services for a zero-install, uninterrupted workflow to quickly ideate illustrative concepts or create refined images using your Vectorworks models at any stage of design.
Video
All Industries
5m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore the new AI Visualizer released with Vectorworks 2024 Update 4.
Explore your designs with Vectorworks Odyssey, a virtual reality viewer app created for Meta Quest 2 headsets and beyond. Experience models in immersive VR with bird's-eye view and walkthrough modes. Gain better context for quick and thorough feedback, including cycling through design options with access to design layer visibilities.
Video
All Industries
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore the new Vectorworks Odyssey viewer for Meta Quest 2 headsets, released with Vectorworks 2024 Update 4.
The Grotto is a penthouse/rooftop private club project.
Designed on a historic building in Chicago. It incorporates biophilia principles.
Chicago has 509 vegetated roofs with 5,564,000 square feet green roof coverage. Initiatives began in 2001 with their city hall green roof to reduce heat island effect and storm water management.
Dive into the essential foundations of creating a robust template
file and its real-life implementation with this webinar.
Along with Mauro Pujia, lighting designer, YOK Studios,
you’ll explore the intricacies of organizing design layers, classes, and views
for live event design. Additionally, you’ll learn how graphic legends,
worksheets, and other tools boost efficiency.
With
purpose-built tools, you’ll be able to create organized template files that
maximize your day-to-day design execution.
Video
Entertainment
45m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn how to leverage graphic legends,
worksheets, and other tools directly within your sheet design, allowing for
efficient duplication and strategic organization to optimize client navigation
through the final outputs.
Discover effective techniques for organizing
both internal and external export materials, including MVR, FBX, 3DS, DWG, and
more.
Engage in a series of short exercises to
highlight the tangible benefits of adopting a solid and organized template.
In this webinar, you’ll
observe a phase-by-phase breakdown of an urban landscape design project. By
demystifying the design process, you’ll discover effective ways to use
technology to deliver your work in multiple design phases of a landscape
project. Click here to access The Cube Landscape Project sample file.
To receive 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Video
Landscapes
40m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Identify the benefits of
design software across multiple landscape design phases.
Understand the
professional competencies of digital design and project management.
Witness innovative
approaches to project problem-solving with design software.
Comprehend the
intersection of landscape design, digital technology, visualization, and camera
effects.
ENHANCING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH MATERIALS AND BIM
We live in a world of
limited resources, and the AEC industry not only has a large impact on the use
of those resources, but also the overall health of our planet. As designers, it
is important to consider the impact of the project not only on the environment,
but also on the health of its occupants.
In this course, we’ll
discuss how to better identify and reduce a design’s carbon footprint using
Building Information Modeling (BIM). Specifying high-quality, sustainable
materials for interiors can not only lead to longer product life cycles and
better energy management, but also benefit the overall health of the occupant
by limiting the use of toxic substances and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
We’ll demonstrate how BIM gives the designer more control over a building’s
level of sustainability – such as generating embodied carbon calculations – and
gives the designer more opportunities to enhance the aesthetics and occupant
comfort by using a systems approach.
Video
Buildings
1h
Beginner
Learning Objectives
List the seven core principles
of sustainable construction.
Explain how high-quality
materials lead to the health, safety, and welfare of occupants, a reduction of
embodied carbon, and less waste.
Describe how materials and BIM software provide
a systems approach that leads to more efficient buildings.
Recognize how high-quality
materials and design can lead to cost savings and a reduced carbon footprint
without sacrificing aesthetics or occupant comfort.
In this course, we'll learn how to connect an external database to the records in our drawing. Using SQLite as a database source, we'll quickly fill our records with data without having to manually retype anything.
Video
All Industries
15m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Explore the Database commands and tools.
Connect an external SQL database to our existing records.
Transfer our data back and forth between our model and the external database.
Learn more about digital tools that can help you
streamline site analyses for your projects. We will dive deeper into data
import options while exploring new ways to work with topographical surveys in
both 2D and 3D. Helping you to create sustainable landscape schemes, we will
look at the site model data and the best practice to evaluate the site’s slope,
elevation, surface water flow and site context using georeferencing and
satellite images. Explore the benefits of the feature layers and how they can help
you make early-stage design decisions with ease.
Video
Landscapes
40m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Data import
options
Learn how to create sustainable landscape schemes
Best practice to evaluate site's slope, elevation and
surface water flow