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.
Video
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.
Video
Buildings
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new BIM Construction Classification feature, released with Vectorworks 2025.
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.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated the headlines recently, but are you aware of the role it can play in your design workflows? Join AI and design experts Luis M. Ruiz, senior Vectorworks Architect product specialist; Benjamin Guler, partner and CTO at EvolveLAB Veras; and Joey Swerdlin director at Morpholio, to explore how the integration of BIM software and AI-powered visualization apps are revolutionizing the way interior designers conceptualize and visualize their projects.
Ruiz, Guler, and Swerdlin will also guide you through the seamless integration of these cutting-edge tools, offering practical insights and hands-on demonstrations to enhance your design workflow. From creating intricate 3D models to crafting captivating mood boards, you'll learn how to transform your ideas into stunning visual representations with precision and efficiency.
To receive 1 AIA LU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Video
Buildings
48m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how to elaborate 3D models and mood boards for interior design projects.
Learn how to seamlessly integrate BIM, digital hand sketches, and AI Visualizations to produce and explore quick concepts.
Explore the various features and tools for digital sketching, markup, and layering capabilities.
Discover how AI-powered techniques streamline a project's visualization process and enhance design presentations, digital sketches, and realistic rendering scenes.
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 Data Tag tool. In this course, you will learn how harness the power of Data Tags 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.
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.
Video
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.
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.
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.
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.
THE FUTURE OF BIM QUALITY CHECKING: SOLIBRI INSIDE
Model checking is made easy for architects with Solibri Inside. Now you can create architectural models meeting the highest BIM quality standards and focus on creativity while Solibri takes care of the quality. With the easy-to-use plugin, you can capture
errors as you design. Join us to learn how Solibri Inside and Vectorworks can improve your BIM quality assurance workflow.
Video
Buildings
20m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Improve your design skills
by understanding your most common errors and avoiding them. Learn more
about the requirements by getting immediate feedback on your errors.
Discover how, with a
built-in tool and easy visualization, you'll understand the nature of the
errors faster to fix them better.
Lean how to use the predefined checks available and how to create customized checks to meet your project's needs.
Translate project
requirements & local regulations into automated checks that you can
use to ensure that their design meets all standards and needs.
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.
The design and construction of built environments often require complex inputs across numerous stakeholders and disciplines. Shifts in scale require the translation of site analysis, design drivers, and principles. Advanced geospatial analysis tools and
3D geospatial data have the potential to facilitate design outcomes that are responsive to climate and context. However, communicating and integrating this data across disciplines can be a challenge.
Enter Vectorworks Landmark and Esri.
This webinar will explore multidisciplinary design and planning McGregor Coxall’s projects and workflows, demonstrating how integrated feedback loops between Vectorworks’ CAD/BIM process and Esri’s geospatial analysis can result in site-responsive
and data-driven outcomes. It will also delve into how design concepts can feed back into the Esri platform to assess the best final project through quantitative scenario testing and how to communicate complex 2D and 3D outcomes to clients and stakeholders
visually and interactively.
Video
Landscapes
1h 1m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how Vectorworks and Esri’s integration
facilitates multi-disciplinary collaboration across multiple scales.
Explore the key workflows that enable
a circular feedback loop between Vectorworks and Esri’s platforms within the
design process.
Consider ways in which 2D and 3D
spatial design outcomes can be communicated visually in an innovative yet
simple way to clients.
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, data tags, 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.