Welcome to the wonderful world of Freeform modelling! Vectorworks offers a range of brilliant parametric tools to suit our key industries, however you also have the tools to model your own unique creations. From the functional to the bizarre, Vectorworks Freeform modelling tools enable you to realise your designs.
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When it’s time to transform an idea into a digital 3D form, it all comes down to understanding the tools you use. There are multiple ways to achieve the same shape, so best practices with 3D modeling tools vary based on your design intent, skill level, and the complexity of your project. Join Rob Hollis, RA, as he explores the various toolsets and features that enable custom modeling for a variety of project types. This beginner session will focus on general navigation, solid modeling, and basic editing behaviors in Vectorworks.
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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.
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Now more than ever, developing a successful design project involves the contribution, combination, and culmination of multiple people working on various aspects, often in different locations. In this session, Jonathan Reeves, who has spent the last 20 years at the forefront of digital architecture and related fields, explores how projects can benefit from enhanced collaborative BIM workflows with clients, consultants, and during construction. By building on his acclaimed book, Innovative Vectorworks BIM, with examples of projects and case studies by award-winning UK architects, Jonathan will illustrate how the modern designer can harness the fast-paced digital age using Vectorworks.
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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.
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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.
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Climate plays an important role in the performance of all buildings, especially small or thin ones. When designers have access to solid, quantitative data, new opportunities for designing with climate become available. This session will explore the benefits of using BIM for designing architectural projects whose response to climate is expressed in their forms. If you work for a sustainably-oriented practice, this session will enable you to utilize BIM software to further your success.
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Current forecasts say that we may only have 11 years to clean up our act, avoid a potential climate catastrophe, and prevent "irreversible damage" to the earth (UN). Architects can do their part in this clean-up by designing and constructing buildings that use less energy with Vectorworks by implementing the Energos suite of tools in their workflow. This presentation by Registered Architect, Certified Passivhaus Designer, and long-time Vectorworks user, Mark Stephens, gives an overview of low-energy key elements such as space, heat, and specific primary energy demand, heat load, and airtightness. Stephens will highlight the techniques for using Energos in low-energy design and show how Energos can integrate with other low-energy assessment methods.
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In this one-hour lecture with Vectorworks Architect Product Specialist Sarah Barrett, attendees will learn how to take advantage of Vectorworks’ many 2D graphic and presentation capabilities. With all of these different tools, there is no need to use another presentation software to create eye-catching presentations. Some features that will be discussed include data visualization, class overrides, gradients and opacities, alpha channel transparency, and more. Sarah will also discuss how to create key plans, exploded axons, color masks, layered viewports, and diagrams directly in your model.
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The space object can do a lot more than just create a room label. In this hands-on training, Vectorworks Architect Product Specialist Luc Lefebvre will demonstrate all the cool things you can do with this object.
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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.
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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.
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