BIM Interoperability for Landscape Architecture: IFC Exchanges in Vectorworks
Vectorworks Landmark offers the site design professional BIM workflows which can be intuitively integrated into their workflow. Landscape-focused tools such as plants, landscape areas, hardscapes, terrain models, and irrigation provide purpose-built 2D and 3D objects, which carry the information needed from those objects to enable analysis and documentation just like the building-focused tools do in architectural BIM software without the compromises.
For collaboration with other BIM-participating professionals, Vectorworks Landmark operates through the non-proprietary BIM format “Industry Foundation Classes” (IFC). Firms can export and share a data-rich model, treated consistently among other BIM software, as well as analyze with user-defined criteria within model checking software like Solibri.
This course will introduce you to the IFC file format, objects, and property sets, as well as guide you through managing this data for efficent file exchanges.
Text
Landscapes
1h
Advanced
Learning Objectives
Learn about the IFC file format.
Explore the IFC object tags for standard site objects.
Learn how to apply IFC data to objects.
Learn how to use the IFC Data Manager command and how to generate COBie reports.
Understand how to export an IFC file from Vectorworks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With a tool that balances automation with flexible customization, you can create finely detailed countertops and easily achieve quality visuals and reports. Manage countertops across projects with customizable styles and find superior control of design features like overhangs and backsplashes. With efficient modeling and automatic hole cuts, you’ll have the time to create whatever you can imagine without having to worry about manual processes.
Video
Buildings/Interiors
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Countertops tool, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Design accurate curbs, borders, and edging elements based on profile extrudes or individual unit placement. Create these elements as freestanding or seamlessly integrate with hardscapes and landscape areas. Specify corner and insertion details and define front and back curb modifier points for easy terrain manipulation. Design styles will make you more consistent and save you time as you worry less about needing revisions.
Video
Buildings/Landscapes
4m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Curb tool, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Show, ghost, hide, or isolate specific objects with individual visibility control. Navigate to specific parts of your model by isolating objects and create custom drawings or viewports to clearly communicate your design intent. Apply object visibility directly within your design layer or save it to viewports and data visualizations. Find fast, flexible workflows, while also working harmoniously with Class and Layer visibilities.
Video
All Industries
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Object Level Visibility feature, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Quickly and easily establish a geographic survey or reference point with a single operation, saving you time and avoiding complications among collaborators. Perfect for both new and existing projects, place a survey point anywhere in the document to specify coordinates, angles to true north, and elevation information in both 2D and 3D.
Video
Buildings/Landscapes
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Survey Point and Reference Points, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Let project participants view and comment on your document from anywhere on any web-enabled device, getting your projects in front of them faster. Share selected drawings and worksheets and allow collaborators to select areas of interest to access object specifications. They can add comments that you can view within Vectorworks, streamlining your review process. Once you’ve made your changes, quickly share updated documents the same way.
Video
All Industries
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Vectorworks Cloud Document Reviewer, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Discover one-click navigation that allows for easy, instant access to all views of your model and interactive model orbiting with click-dragging. The optional display of XYZ axes, compass direction, and working planes help you effortlessly orient and navigate your model. Easily switch it off with a popover (but you won’t want to).
Video
All Industries
2m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Onscreen View Control introduced with Vectorworks 2025.
