Great interior design isn’t just about creativity – it’s about how effectively you present and communicate your vision to clients and stakeholders. In this webinar, discover how you can create professional, visually compelling presentations.
We’ll explore best practices for developing cohesive color palettes, integrating them into your designs, and leveraging advanced rendering techniques for realistic, high-impact visuals. Through a collaborative demonstration, you’ll see how to streamline your workflow, enhance your design presentations, and avoid common pitfalls.
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to interior design, this session will give you the tools and insights to take your presentations to the next level.
Buildings/Interiors
Buildings/Interiors
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how to streamline color selection, modeling, and rendering.
Discover how to enhance design concepts and visualizations with cohesive color palettes.
Identify pitfalls such as unclear visuals and inconsistent color choices and explore solutions using modern technology.
Create and refine layouts, sheets, and renderings with advanced tools for professional-quality visuals.
Streamlining Your Annotation Process with Callouts, Data Tags and Note Tools
Join us for the session which will dive into available digital tools to assist you when creating and managing annotations in your landscape plans. Desired visual representation of your labeled plans can be achieved, all whilst mastering the alignment of your keynotes, tags and callouts. Open for all levels, the session will focus on some of the latest improvements that will help you to stay organized and save time when creating and customizing your landscape plans.
Landscapes
Landscapes
1h 2m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Learn how to automate the process with the use of data tags.
Gain an understanding of Callout and Note tools to ensure clarity and consistency in your designs.
Explore the callout database and note manager while utilizing their potential to produce customized text descriptions such as disclaimers or product specifications.
Unlock the full potential of MVR (My Virtual Rig).
Join A.J. Pen, CEO and designer at Penlight, and witness a
real-world application of the designer’s use of MVR files for Sublime’s 2024
summer tour — from collaborating on festival stages to exporting to MA3 using
MVR.
Pen will also provide tips for drafting in Vectorworks,
sharing how a more refined process can lead to a more successful MVR export.
Entertainment
Entertainment
15m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Gain insights into the challenges and outcomes
of working with MVR files across different festival stage production teams
during the Sublime tour.
Learn practical drafting techniques in
Vectorworks that lead to a smoother and more effective MVR export process.
Learn how to use the MA3 Viz Key for efficient
offline workflows with MA3, enhancing production design capabilities.
Join Mardi Dover, CPLD, MardiDover.com, to learn how you can
better navigate client challenges with confidence. You’ll gather practical strategies to
manage difficult situations, set clear expectations, and protect your landscape
design business’ reputation. You’ll also discover how proactive communication,
effective boundary-setting, and solid business practices can prevent scope
creep, budget overruns, and designer burnout.
Don’t miss this opportunity to
gain actionable insights.
To receive 1 LA CES PDH and 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Landscapes
Landscapes
1h
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Describe the potential impacts of
failing to effectively navigate difficult situations.
List common challenges in a design
practice.
Identify strategies for managing
complex scenarios in client relationships.
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.
Thinking about a change in your landscape design workflows may feel
daunting — we understand. But you can take on the learning curve and succeed.
And when you do, you will gain many tangible benefits.
Join Eric Gilbey, landscape architect and product marketing manager, in
this webinar as he discusses techniques for learning new software and
approaching Vectorworks Landmark from your current workflow. He will
demonstrate basic techniques to help you get started in Vectorworks, provide
tips for working smarter, not harder, share designer-shared successes, and
equip you with support resources to improve your skills once you make your move
to Vectorworks Landmark.
Landscapes
Landscapes
38m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Acquire simple strategies when testing
Vectorworks features during your trial period.
Assess which Vectorworks Landmark features
yield significant learning and efficiency gains, improving your current design
workflow.
Gain familiarity navigating the user
interface to locate and deploy essential tools and commands for designing and
documenting your project in Vectorworks Landmark.
Access Vectorworks' instructional and
technical support resources, such as the Onboarding Paths, Vectorworks
University, and the Online Help System, to grow your knowledge and skills.
When you start using new design software, there are often
things you wish you knew to make your learning process easier. Join seven
members of the Vectorworks’ team for an unmatched, interactive discussion on
best practices and useful tips to get you started with Vectorworks Architect.
Our presenters will share their own experiences and wisdom
on learning Vectorworks and will walk you through workflows that will help you
overcome the initial hurdles of this powerful and versatile design software.
Buildings
Buildings
1h 9m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Discover seven workflows that you can apply and implement at your own pace.
Gain familiarity with the wide range of tools, including useful tips on how to use them effectively.
Learn specific software behavior to help you gain confidence in using your new design tool.
Assess which tool sets are most useful to get you productive on a project faster.
Elevate Your Experience: What’s New in Vectorworks 2025
Explore the latest updates in Vectorworks 2025 designed to boost design efficiency, streamline 3D modelling, and enhance collaboration presented by Jonathan Reeves, an architect, author, and Vectorworks expert.
Through real-world project examples, you'll discover how these new features can transform your workflow. Key highlights include Object Visibility, Two Point Perspective, Revit & DWG Collaboration, Room Finishes, and AI Visualisation updates. Reeves will also dive into exciting enhancements in Vectorworks Cloud and much more. Plus, he’ll share extra tips and tricks.
Design, Document, Visualize Your Project Using Vectorworks
Architecture Product Specialist Ryan Butler walks you through the process of designing a project using Vectorworks and shows you some interesting workflows to excel in your studio.
Buildings
Buildings
44m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand various 3D modeling techniques to effectively design your projects.
Discover the power of rendering tools available in Vectorworks to help visualize your designs.
Learn how to create drawings from your 3D models to communicate your project’s design intent.
Review best practices for creating great presentations to impress your professors.
Join us for a data-driven exploration of how female lighting
professionals fare in theater, concerts, film, broadcast, or any other
discipline in the traditionally male-dominated industry.
In this webinar, Amy D Lux, founder and principal designer
at LoboLux Design, Women in Lighting and Design board member, will navigate
data across various facets of the lighting field. Drawing on statistics from
the past decade and her own experiences, the talented designer will illuminate
the similarities and differences facing men and women in the industry.
Entertainment
Entertainment
59m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Analyze gender representation in multiple
lighting disciplines.
Understand market and regulatory differences for
lighting designers in the industry.
Explore strategies for enhancing diversity
within the lighting industry.
Discover how digital tools can elevate your softscape design and streamline plant specification workflows, making it easier to meet your project’s sustainability goals. In this session, we’ll guide you through incorporating metrics like Biodiversity Net Gain and Urban Greening Factor directly within your design software, eliminating the need to switch between platforms. Learn how to generate customised reports and worksheets tailored to your planting proposals. Open to all experience levels, this session will showcase new features and their benefits, empowering you to communicate your planting designs effectively with clients, contractors, and other project stakeholders.
Landscapes
Landscapes
52m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Enhance softscape design and plant specification workflows through digital tools.
Integrate sustainability metrics (e.g., Biodiversity Net Gain, Urban Greening Factor) directly within design software.
Simplify the creation of customised reports and worksheets for planting proposals.
Offer insights suitable for all experience levels to optimise design and workflow efficiency.
Did you know you can elevate your design and preproduction
process with Vectorworks Spotlight?
A brand-new feature in Vectorworks Spotlight, Showcase,
brings powerful tools like a DMX recorder with playback controls and a timeline
that allows you to choose where in the DMX recording you want to go, expanding
your options for documenting and presenting your entertainment designs. With
Showcase, you can explore blocking and positioning concepts, experiment with
live video feeds, and integrate dynamic elements directly within Vectorworks.
Join entertainment product specialist Jesse
Cogdell for this webinar to see how Showcase can enhance your workflows. He’ll
guide you through its key settings, demonstrate camera setups, explore video
textures, and showcase DMX transforms — all through practical examples you can
incorporate into your projects.
Entertainment
Entertainment
41m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how to configure Showcase settings for
performance and visual quality.
Learn how Showcase can be added to existing workflows for
presentation and documentation.
Gain insight for movement and position planning in Showcase
with DMX transforms.
