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.
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.
This Lakehouse Landscape project provides a BIM workflow demonstration, showing the process of modelling residential landscape using Vectorworks Landmark. 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.)
Space objects are one of the most versatile and hardest
working of all the BIM features, serving the needs of every design phase of an
architectural project. Among their many capabilities, Space objects enable you
to plan a project in 2D or 3D, verify building code and zoning compliance,
report data about themselves and their contents, assemble room finish
information, and accurately visualize their data.
Join Vectorworks Architect product specialist Neil Barman in
this webinar as he examines real-use cases for architectural and interior
design workflows that leverage the power of spaces.
To receive 1 AIA LU, 1 CORE AIBC LU, and 1 CORE AAA LEARNING HOUR, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Buildings
Buildings
40m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Develop and fine-tune reusable resources to expedite project planning tasks.
Generate 2D space plans or 3D massing models for various project typologies.
Evaluate a project’s space plan regarding programmatic, building code, and zoning requirements.
Employ data visualization techniques to automatically color-code spaces according to their inherent or added information.
BIM Interoperability for Landscape Architecture: IFC Exchanges in Vectorworks
Vectorworks Landmark offers the site design professional BIM workflows which can be intuitively integrated into their workflow. Landscape-focused tools such as plants, landscape areas, hardscapes, terrain models, and irrigation provide purpose-built 2D and 3D objects, which carry the information needed from those objects to enable analysis and documentation just like the building-focused tools do in architectural BIM software without the compromises.
For collaboration with other BIM-participating professionals, Vectorworks Landmark operates through the non-proprietary BIM format “Industry Foundation Classes” (IFC). Firms can export and share a data-rich model, treated consistently among other BIM software, as well as analyze with user-defined criteria within model checking software like Solibri.
This course will introduce you to the IFC file format, objects, and property sets, as well as guide you through managing this data for efficent file exchanges.
Landscapes
Landscapes
1h
Advanced
Learning Objectives
Learn about the IFC file format.
Explore the IFC object tags for standard site objects.
Learn how to apply IFC data to objects.
Learn how to use the IFC Data Manager command and how to generate COBie reports.
Understand how to export an IFC file from Vectorworks.
Firms are adopting
Building Information Modeling (BIM) at a faster rate than ever before. To make
the most of the tools at your disposal, you need a complete picture of the
options available to make a better-informed decision on achieving more
effective project collaboration.
This presentation, hosted by Vectorworks' Luka Stefanovic, will demonstrate how you
can collaborate with your project stakeholders at every project stage, review
tools, and workflows to help you start a project on the right foot, and
demonstrate success in every phase of the project from design to construction
and building operation.
To receive 1 AIA LU, 1 CORE AIBC LU, and 1 CORE AAA LEARNING HOUR, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Buildings
Buildings
44m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how to plan for a successful collaboration process — using a BIM execution plan and delivering a compliant BIM model.
Evaluate the best options for collaboration using various file formats and software.
Discover best practices for model coordination during the design phases and using model validation and issue management workflows.
Comprehend owner requirements for built asset management and ensure correct data delivery for a successful project handoff.
Design firms often rely on one
set of tools for concept modeling, another for Building Information Modeling
(BIM), and another for drafting construction details.
This fragmented workflow could be
more efficient, considering most BIM software prioritizes documentation over
design, limiting free-form modeling, and sketch tools need more robust
analytics to evaluate building performance early on.
This presentation, hosted by
François Lévy, architect and principal at François Lévy Architecture +
Interiors, offers an alternative workflow.
You’ll witness a unified design
process using Vectorworks for sketch modeling and early analytics as a stepping
stone to a comprehensive approach to BIM, detailing, and rendering.
Buildings
Buildings
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Discover how a unified workflow offers greater efficiency and design freedom.
Learn about concept modeling opportunities within Vectorworks at the early concept levels.
Map out how to transition from concept model to BIM efficiently, minimizing re-work and information loss.
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.
Buildings
Buildings
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new BIM Construction Classification feature, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Turn your 3D models into immersive experiences.
Explore how BIM workflows and real-time visualizations can help you design
faster, reduce errors, and better communicate your design intent to help you
win more work.
To receive 1 AIA LU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Buildings
Buildings
40m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Describe the fundamental benefits of real-time rendering and differentiate it from traditional rendering workflows.
Identify strategies for leveraging interactive and immersive real-time visualizations to increase collaboration among project stakeholders, including clients, team members, and consultants.
Discover techniques for fast design exploration and iteration using materials and lights to better assess spatial configurations in real-time, streamlining the decision-making process.
Explore best practices for integrating real-time rendering into the architectural design workflows to save time by minimizing rework and maximizing productivity throughout the design process.
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.
Buildings
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.
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 Data Tags 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.
Buildings
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.
