What’s New with Showcase in Vectorworks Spotlight 2026?
The webinar, hosted by Joshua Schulman, Matt Artigues, and Live Design, explores the updated Showcase feature in Vectorworks Spotlight 2026, highlighting its new visual and control capabilities and the addition of the versatile LED Wall tool for more dynamic stage and event design.
Entertainment
Entertainment
53m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand the major enhancements introduced in the Showcase feature of Vectorworks Spotlight 2026.
Learn how the new LED Wall tool streamlines design, analysis, and reporting for complex visual setups.
Discover improved workflows for managing lighting, visual effects, and DMX integration within Spotlight.
Product manufacturers have invested considerable time and
resources in creating Environment Product Disclosures (EPDs) to assist
landscape architects and other site design professionals in pursuing more
climate-positive landscapes.
Join Bryce Carnehl of Hunter Industries,
Christopher Lyon of Tournesol, and Eric Gilbey of Vectorworks for a panel
discussion on EPDs, how they’re produced, and where they can be utilized in
site planning and design workflows.
Landscapes
Landscapes
45m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand
what Environment Product Declarations (EPDs) are and their role in landscape
architecture and other site design disciplines.
Learn
how manufacturers meet the global demand for EPDs to produce these documents.
Explore
where in site planning and design workflows designers can make use of EPDs.
The most environmentally responsible building may be one
that’s already built.
In this webinar, learn how François Lévy, architect and principal
at François Lévy Architecture + Interiors, used BIM softwarwe to serve a church
congregation in its decision-making process regarding the fate of its damaged
parish hall. The firm used a variety of tools, such as Space objects,
worksheets, data visualization, and Point Cloud photogrammetry, to evaluate the
building rehabilitation and explore options to undertake the project
efficiently in phases.
Buildings
Buildings
45m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Recognize the sustainability and community value of reusing existing
building stock.
Learn how effective BIM workflows, related to modeling and documenting
existing structures, facilitate building remodels and additions.
Understand how specific BIM tools can be used in harmony to improve
sustainable design outcomes.
Identify best practices for developing coordinated working drawings in a
hybrid 2D/3D digital platform.
Join G&A for an inside look at how their integrated
design team leverages Vectorworks software and Vectorworks Partner D5 Render to
create immersive, high-fidelity physical and digital architectural experiences.
In this session, Carl Rhodes, creative director
exhibits at G&A, will walk you through real-world projects — from exhibits
to situated media — showing how G&A’s creative and technical workflows come
together in powerful ways. Whether you’re an architect, renderer, or
collaborator, this session offers insights into cross-disciplinary teamwork,
efficient rendering techniques, and storytelling through spatial design.
Buildings
Buildings
41m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how Vectorworks software and D5 Render are used together in G&A’s 3D experience design pipeline.
Learn how Vectorworks’ cloud-based
project-sharing and D5’s LiveSync plugin work together to enable collaborative
team workflow.
Explore strategies for integrating media
content, environmental graphics, and artifacts into visualizations.
Gain insight into managing cross-disciplinary
collaboration across architecture, media, and interactive design.
Not
every client loves the look of a pollinator or naturalized garden, but there
are strategies for enhancing biodiversity in every garden style through soil
management and the addition of native plants.
Join
Adele Pierre, landscape architect at Adele Pierre Landscape Architect
Inc., for a look at several ways to increase the number of native
species, both flora and fauna, in the landscape.
Landscapes
Landscapes
45m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore
strategies for soil analysis and management.
Analyze
existing vegetation to establish what to keep and what to remove.
Create
a planting plan using native species as specimens, borders, and ground covers.
In the fast-paced world of
television production, adaptability is everything. The mantra for every
television art department is simple: prepare and anticipate but, always be
ready to pivot.
In this webinar, Angela Cullen, a
set designer with experience with Apple TV+, Disney, and more, will help you
discover how a television set designer leverages Vectorworks Architect and Spotlight
to stay ahead of shifting creative needs and production demands.
You'll see how these tools streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and support the creative process.
Entertainment
Entertainment
39m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Learn
how to create engaging, production-ready conceptual presentations for
television set design.
Enhance
design flexibility by learning strategies to adapt quickly to creative pivots
and shifting production requirements.
Incorporate
visual elements such as wallpaper, color palettes, and material textures to
communicate mood, style, and storytelling.
Explore powerful rendering capabilities that elevate landscape ad garden design presentations with photorealistic quality and precision. With integrated tools like Renderworks, you can produce high-quality visuals directly within your design environment and eliminate the need for external applications. The software supports advanced lighting, texture mapping and environmental effects, allowing designers to create compelling renderings that communicate ideas with clarity and impact. Whether it’s commercial landscape walkthroughs, detailed planting visuals, or immersive garden designs, Vectorworks Landmark supports visualization process for production of both enhanced client presentations and internal design development. The seamless workflow, combined with customizable render styles, ensures that landscape professionals can deliver stunning visuals without compromising on efficiency or creativity.
Landscapes
Landscapes
50m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Understand the core rendering features and workflows within Vectorworks for producing high-impact visuals.
Learn how to utilise lighting, textures, and camera settings to enhance the realism of your renderings.
Explore time-saving tips and techniques for integrating visualization seamlessly into your design process.
Step inside the creative and technical process of one of the most ambitious live events in the Middle East: XP Music Futures in Riyadh, KSA.
Join Michael Harpur as he takes you behind the scenes, showing how detailed drafting, efficient file setups for multi-site projects, and seamless scenic imports come together to support large-scale productions.
This session is designed for lighting designers, technicians, and entertainment draftspersons eager to sharpen their skills in collaborative workflows. You’ll explore how tools like iPad PDF markups, Vectorworks Spotlight’s advanced render modes, and previsualisation techniques can streamline communication and elevate your design presentations.
If you’re ready to expand your toolkit and enhance how your designs are delivered within a production team, this webinar is for you.
Entertainment
Entertainment
31m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn how to organise and manage drafting files for complex, multi-site event projects using Vectorworks Spotlight workflows.
Discover techniques for integrating scenic elements and leveraging render modes to improve visual communication with the wider production team.
Understand how to enhance collaboration through documentation strategies, PDF markups, and previsualisation processes that bring design concepts to life.
Previsualization (previz) is an essential part of lighting
design workflows, and it used to require a second program to test run your
design.
However, with Vectorworks Spotlight’s Showcase feature, you
can perform real-time previz in the same software where you draw your light
plots, create scenic designs, and more.
Join entertainment industry experts Joshua Schulman and Matt
Artigues as they demonstrate how to
set up your lighting plot to be Showcase-ready as well as the rendering
capabilities of the cutting-edge feature.
Entertainment
Entertainment
44m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how to connect a lighting console to
Vectorworks Spotlight via Showcase.
Witness Showcase Shaded render settings and
preferences for camera settings, bloom, fog, and backgrounds.
Learn how to operate live console playback,
record DMX to your file, and more with the intuitive capabilities of Showcase.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at a real-world,
streamlined landscape design process using design software and supporting
technologies.
This session, hosted by Maggie Little and Andrea Wilson
Mueller of Inside Out
Landscape Design, walks you through the entire project lifecycle — from
capturing site measurements and budgeting to producing polished presentations
and build-ready documentation.
Learn how integrating smart workflows improves
internal efficiency and elevates the client experience with compelling visuals
and clear construction directives.
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
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Leverage digital tools for fast, accurate site
analysis and documentation.
Use worksheets and data-rich models for
estimating, budgeting, and ensuring build accuracy.
Enhance client engagement and close more sales
with impactful 3D visualizations.
Irrigation design for efficiency, analysis, and quantity takeoffs are standard
requirements in today’s world of landscape design.
The powerful tools within Vectorworks Landmark allow you to place
outlets while seeing product-specified performance. Connect piping in your
design that’ll calculate friction loss and hydraulic pressure, while
automatically sizing the lateral and mainline piping. And, you can place drip
tubing while generating true GPH required per zone.
Once designed, you can analyze, document, and calculate the irrigation
network, creating a robust, water-efficient irrigation design.
To receive 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Landscapes
Landscapes
48m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore
the use of the irrigation design tool set in Vectorworks Landmark.
Learn
how to place outlets, pipe, valves, and drip lines.
