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.
Video
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.
Video
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.
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.
Video
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.
ConnectCAD Schematics and Rack Design in Vectorworks
Join Vectorworks solutions specialist Tom White as he explores the powerful features of ConnectCAD 2025! Learn how to create detailed 2D schematics and design intricate 3D racks with ease. Discover how ConnectCAD can automate your workflow, providing real-time feedback and instantly highlighting issues and inconsistencies.
In landscape design, sculptural works can transform an
environment, elicit an emotional response, and provoke conversation.
Join Lior Kristal, design director at David Harber, to learn
how to incorporate sculptural works into new or existing themes and concepts within
exterior environments such as commercial developments, public spaces, and
private gardens.
This can’t-miss session focuses on three core areas: form,
themes, and techniques. Each area will then be broken down into specific
considerations for sculptural works within a space, such as scale, perspective,
material, textures, and more.
Preview David Harber sculptures that are available within the Vectorworks Content Library here.
Video
Landscapes
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn what aspects to consider when incorporating sculpture design, such
as location, prominence, and proportion.
Understand the merits of different materials and finishes for sculpture
design and how they aesthetically work within a theme and space.
Witness the values of water features in outdoor environments and the
technical requirements for filtration, water supply, public safety, and general
installation.
When you put on a live event, you’re helping tell a story.
But did you know you can also tell a story with your client
presentations?
In this webinar, Corey Verdusco, chief “Cre8ive” director at
Cre8ion Group, will guide you through best practices
for delivering visually stunning and highly professional presentations using
Vectorworks. With cutting-edge features like real-time rendering and seamless
navigation, there’s always a new story to tell.
Video
Entertainment
1h 1m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Discover how to utilize Shaded render mode in
Vectorworks to present designs to clients in real time and make live design
changes during meetings to address client feedback.
Learn how to use saved views to navigate through
different design elements smoothly during client presentations.
Understand how to use template files to create
consistent branding across your drawings, presentations, and more.
Create Plant styles, access external plant data, and
personalize 2D and 3D graphics with Vectorworks Landmark’s Plant tool.
This webinar will provide you with a general overview of the
tool, showing you different ways plants can be used in a planting plan as well
as how to report quantities and other data via worksheets. Finally, you’ll
learn how to create planting palettes using Graphic Legends in Vectorworks
Landmark.
If you’re in the business of creating planting plans, this
webinar is for you.
Video
Landscapes
1h
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Witness a comprehensive overview of the Plant
tool, including how to create plants, 3D representations, and more.
Learn how to organize your own library of plants
within Vectorworks Landmark.
Understand the importance of using worksheets
and Graphic Legends in tandem with the Plant tool.
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.
Join Jazz Hutsby, lighting designer and technician, for an in depth walkthrough of our new Vectorworks Odyssey app for VR headset. He’ll showcase how the app works and give a glimpse of how Odyssey was used in Royal Conservatoire of Scotland production of Sweet Charity.
Video
Entertainment
46m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
How to add Vectorworks model to Odyssey app.
Understand how to use and benefit from Vectorworks Odyssey.
Sharing your model in Odyssey with anyone - regardless of whether they use Vectorworks.
Discover a real life use of Odyssey app in Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Sweet Charity case study.
In this session, Adele Pierre of Adele Pierre Landscape
Architect Inc. will demonstrate how small-scale interventions can create
significant, positive change in urban settings. In the City of Hamilton,
Ontario, city-owned boulevards have been converted from asphalt into vibrant
rain gardens and pollinator habitats, creating a cohesive green space in a
highly industrialized neighborhood. This webinar will follow the process of
site selection, information gathering, garden creation, and documentation of
environmental impacts.
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
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore how integrated GIS assists evaluating
potential sites and creating georeferenced base plans.
Understand how cost-effective public green
spaces can be designed for easier installation.
Identify how design intent and environmental
benefits can be communicated to the public.
Recognize how several projects cumulatively
scale up the environmental impact. Plus, learn how annotation features can aid
in reporting and communicating said impact.
Data Difference: Digital Workflows for Better Collaboration with Ecologists
With continuous development of technology
and legislation, this webinar focuses on digital tools and workflows that can
enhance the collaboration between landscape architects and ecologists. Joined
by Matthew Davies, a QGIS specialist from Maplango, it showcases a case study
and a habitat-rich landscape project in both Vectorworks and QGIS. The aim is
to optimise file exchange and look at the effective ways to create planting
plans for biodiversity enhancment purposes.
Following the standard project delivery,
the webinar's content places emphasis on data and a difference that GIS and import/export
capabilities in Vectorworks make for landscape professionals and their design
decisions. While the naming conventions can vary amongst the landscape
disciplines, digital tools can help to optimise the collaboration and ensure a
greater level of communication between the landscape professions.
Video
Landscapes
54m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn
about the data difference in Vectorworks and explore the import/export options,
GIS capabilities and features that help your communication with ecologists.
Get
an insight into digital workflows that can help you to optimise project deliverables
for better collaboration with QGIS users.
Explore digital tools and naming conventions
that can help you to create planting specifications that support habitat
creation in ecological terms.
Switching to Vectorworks unlocks new design powers — from visualization to
documentation!
Join Tom Wagman, senior set designer, and Dawn Snyder, director of education
at IATSE Local 800, for a webinar showcasing Vectorworks' power. Discover how
Wagman's set design workflow has improved since switching from SketchUp.
Wagman now performs most of his set design process directly in Vectorworks,
enhancing his creative capabilities, streamlining his workflow, and empowering
his design process.
Video
Entertainment
48m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Discover all you can do by switching to Vectorworks from SketchUp.
Get hands-on tips for creating high-quality renders directly within Vectorworks.
See how to expedite your workflow using Vectorworks Resource Libraries.
Learn how Vectorworks helps you easily generate plans and elevations from your 3D model.
