Discover the power of digital tools for optimizing site
analysis in your projects.
In this webinar, you'll learn advanced data import
techniques and innovative approaches to working with both 2D and 3D
topographical surveys. Plus, you’ll discover how to develop sustainable
landscape designs by leveraging site model data to assess slope, elevation,
surface water flow, and site context using georeferencing and satellite
imagery.
With these insights and more, you can confidently handle
early-stage design decisions.
To receive 1 LA CES PDH and 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Video
Landscapes
40m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Discover how different file setup and import
options can optimize your project’s BIM workflow.
Understand the benefits of GIS feature
layers when making early-stage design decisions.
Explore new ways to work with
topographical surveys in both 2D and 3D views.
Learn best practices for site
evaluations and creating sustainable landscape schemes.
When creating documentation, architects and designers need to label drawing elements. In a BIM workflow, modeled objects contain data, and that data can be visualized using smart labels. In Vectorworks, any object’s data can be labeled using the DataTag tool. In this course, you will learn how harness the power of DataTags in Vectorworks software, to not only report data, but also push data to objects and giving you an intuitive way to append data in your designs.
Text
Buildings
1h
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Learn how to place a Data Tag.
Understand how to create Data Tag Styles.
Learn how to associate data to a Data Tag, edit that data, and edit the layout of the tag.
Spend more time designing and less time documenting using Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows and smart documentation tools. In this webinar, Sarah Barrett, associate AIA and senior architect product specialist at Vectorworks, will discuss how
data visualization and DataTags can help document your model efficiently.
Join this webinar to gain valuable insights on tools like Viewport Styles, Graphic Legends, Grid Lines, and Elevation Benchmarks to maximize your data automation and leverage smart tools for documentation.
To receive 1 AIA LU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Video
Buildings
49m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Review how BIM resources can be organized and coordinated to maintain drawing standards and document efficiently.
Discuss various
documentation tools, such as Data Tags and Viewport Styles, that can streamline
the documentation process.
Learn multiple methods
of documenting project elements and quantities and creating drawing keys using
Graphic Legends.
Communicate and document
various sets of data by changing the appearance of objects based on their
properties.
More than ever, due to COVID-19, people are spending more time at home and therefore have found issues that they want to work on within homes. Kitchens have become a multi-functional space and this webinar will help you work on those little details. As
part of our new webinar series for residential interiors, join Kesoon Chance, industry specialist at Vectorworks, Inc. and Stephan Mönninghoff, co-owner of extragroup, to explore how to get your space design to suit your needs. This webinar will showcase
the process of custom designs from conceptual modeling with extrudes, development with the parametric cabinets, and construction details with interiorcad within Vectorworks.
Video
Interiors
45m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Explore the different ways in which Vectorworks and interiorcad can take you through your design stages.
Learn the benefits of using interiorcad for detailed custom designs.
Examine how Props & Lighting can add to conveying your design.
Discuss different approaches to extracting data from your model.
Ever wondered how tools such as the Datatag are set up to display information about a specific object? Maybe you have used these resources from the Vectorworks Libraries and would like to adjust the data that is being displayed to meet your requirements.
If this is the case, then this is the Coffee Break for you as we look at Dynamic Text and the different data sources you can set to pull information out of your design.
Dover Dam is a residential project located on an existing farm. The project is a 3D BIM model that includes stories, a site with modifiers, hardscapes, marionette objects, interior furnishings, and light fixtures in addition to traditional building objects organized by styles. The documentation makes use of viewport styles, smart markers, datatags, dimensions, callouts, 2D annotation tools, grid lines, elevation benchmarks, graphic legends, worksheets, title blocks, class overrides, and data visualizations specifically to modify and enhance drawings.
As a valued member of the Vectorworks community we would like to welcome you to this exploration file, provided by Vectorworks. We provide an overview of the project's objectives below, but to jump straight into exploring the project, we suggest running
through the Saved Views and/or the Sheet Layers. The House Residential sample file consists of 3 files:
The first two, named House in Half an Hour, provide a simple and straightforward way to get to grips with modelling using parametric tools such as Walls, Slabs, Roofs, Windows and Doors. The first file is a template providing a blank slate with guides
and instructions for quick start modelling practice. The second file shows how the model should look like once finished. The third file is a developed stage model that provides an insight into some of the more advanced workflows in Vectorworks - particularly
model data processing. Materials have been used extensively, to provide both graphic attributes to objects and also as means to obtain quantity take offs, which in turn populate our Embodied Carbon Calculator and Bills of Quantities live worksheets.
Energos energy analysis project settings and results can also be explored using this model.
Project organisation in these files includes a generic Storey setup and Design Layers linked with Storey Levels. A Class structure is based on the UK's Uniclass2015. Resources such as Wall Styles which work with Storey Levels can be found in the Resource
Manager. This has been setup so you can immediately start modelling using those resources and project settings.
The Riverwood Townhomes project file demonstrates Vectorworks Landmark features including plants, landscape areas, site model and massing models. The file also includes hardscape, fence, railing, stair, wall, graphic legends, datatags and worksheets.
The Gallery 196 project is a great example of a BIM project which includes a full set of drawings, details, and Schedules. Several techniques such as Class overrides, DataTags, and Styles are used throughout the project along with various rendering styles.
In addition, the file includes a site model, plant objects, landscape areas as well as hardscape elements. For 2023, the Gallery project gets several new reports in the form of door types and window types using the new Graphic Legend tool. There’s
also an updated version of the Elevation Benchmark shown on Design Layers as well as sections and elevation sheets. Spaces were updated to use DataTags in both plan view and in section to show room names and numbers. A new site model that shows several
of the new site improvement features is also provided.
The High Tor project is a modern suburb townhouse development project. The main strip of residences was detailed using a data-driven BIM workflow and incorporating a typical Vectorworks file organization of Layers, Stories, and Sheet Layers for the drawing set. This project utilizes coordinated drawing techniques such as data visualization, smart markers, datatags, title blocks, graphic legends, elevation benchmarks, and more. You will find developed interiors for all six units of this residential townhome complex. One PDF file of the entire drawing set is included.
The CUBE provides a BIM workflow demonstration, showing the process of modelling a generic, 4 storey office building using Vectorworks Architect. The focus rests firmly on the BIM process and explores the progress of the model through digital work stages and Level of Information Need, all the while referencing back to the UK BIM Framework and ISO19650 relevant standards.
Parametric tools, intelligent objects, data handling and creating associated views from the BIM model are demonstrated as best practice use, to streamline and optimise the design and modelling process while ensuring the maximum quality and consistency of delivery information.
Newly updated, our robust Data Tag tool continues to give you a consistent method for tagging and displaying data about your model. New options for tag scaling, new tag fields, direct editing of tags, and a new worksheet function all provide greater automation and control of the information displayed in your project’s documentation.
Video
All Industries
2 Minutes
Beginner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn about the new improvements to the Data Tag tool.
Explore editing Data Tags directly through worksheets.