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Origins and Project Template Setup

Intermediate
30m

Origins and Project Template Setup

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This workflow provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to setting up project templates and origins in Vectorworks, ensuring accurate georeferencing, efficient collaboration, and optimal software performance for architectural and design projects. The curriculum is structured around practical workflows tailored to different project scenarios, from blank document creation to advanced geospatial coordination.

Landscapes
Landscapes
30m
Intermediate

Learning Objectives

  1. Confidently set up and customize Vectorworks project templates for various project types.
  2. Accurately define and manage project origins, coordinates, and georeferencing settings.
  3. Import and align third-party data (e.g., DWG surveys) and maintain spatial accuracy.
  4. Prepare project files for seamless collaboration with external partners and software platforms.

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2D Plans for Unmatched Landscape Design-Builds

Beginner
50m

2D Plans for Unmatched Landscape Design-Builds

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For design-build practices 2D drafting and plans can be unbelievably effective.

Join Carl Molter of ecological design-build company Indigenous Ingenuities for this informative webinar. You’ll learn how 2D drawings can effectively contain both information and beauty.

To receive 1 LA CES PDH and 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.

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Landscapes
Landscapes
50m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Observe 2D design-build plans from field work to final presentation.
  2. Discover how a custom workgroup can speed up drawing production.
  3. Witness tips to efficiently manage drawing file sizes and create phased pricing plans from a single master plan.

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Streamlining Your Planting Plans with Vectorworks and EvergreenConnect

Intermediate
1h 4m

Streamlining Your Planting Plans with Vectorworks and EvergreenConnect

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Learn how integrating Vectorworks with EvergreenConnect’s live plant availability data can enhance the efficiency and accuracy of your planting plan workflow. This webinar will show you how to check your Vectorworks planting plans against real-time availability and cost data from EvergreenConnect, helping you create designs that are both practical and cost-effective.

Landscapes
Landscapes
1h 4m
Intermediate

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn how to link Vectorworks planting plans with EvergreenConnect for real-time plant availability and pricing
  2. See how to export plant counts and selections directly to EvergreenConnect
  3. Discover the project management features available within EvergreenConnect
  4. Gain practical tips for improving workflow efficiency and accuracy
  5. Participate in a Q and A session with Ben Beaumont and Todd Gallagher

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AI Assistant (Preview)

Beginner
2m

AI Assistant (Preview)

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Say hello to AI Assistant (Preview), an always-on resource that delivers instant answers to your Vectorworks questions at any stage of your design. Trained exclusively on Vectorworks content, this new tool will help you learn new features faster, work smarter, and easily keep projects on track. Learn more and get started today.

All Industries
All Industries
2m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn about the new AI Assistant (Preview) released with Vectorworks 2025 Update 5.

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Maximize Your Creativity with AI

Beginner
50m

Maximize Your Creativity with AI

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Discover how the AI Visualizer empowers you, regardless of your industry, to create stunning visuals with ease. Learn to apply advanced image styles, refine designs with inpainting, and generate limitless assets directly within your existing workflows. Explore features like prompt saving, alpha channel assets, and automated background creation to streamline your design process.

Join Vectorworks experts for this session and unlock new levels of creativity and efficiency with these powerful AI-driven tools.

To receive 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.

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All Industries
All Industries
50m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Streamline workflows by learning to craft effective text prompts and the use of image styles.
  2. Master the creation of seamless textures.
  3. Produce and utilize image assets with alpha channels.
  4. Enhance image quality and leverage direct resource creation.

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Bringing Furniture Concepts to Life

Beginner
50m

Bringing Furniture Concepts to Life

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Discover the full creative and technical workflow behind designing a stunning modern audio console with an integrated turntable — using only Vectorworks Fundamentals. This webinar will guide you through the entire process, from initial concept development to design drawings, all within a single software environment.

Learn how to leverage Vectorworks Fundamentals to model complex furniture forms, create high-quality renderings, and produce precise technical drawings for fabrication. Whether you're a designer or maker, this session will give you the skills to bring your furniture ideas to life with efficiency and precision.

All Industries
All Industries
50m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Explore how to generate and refine furniture designs within Vectorworks Fundamentals.
  2. Master essential tools and workflows for creating detailed and complex furniture forms.
  3. Use Vectorworks Fundamentals’ rendering capabilities to produce compelling visuals that showcase materials and lighting.
  4. Learn how to efficiently generate accurate shop drawings directly from your 3D model.

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Embodied Carbon Calculation - Landscape Projects

Beginner
1h

Embodied Carbon Calculation - Landscape Projects

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A recent article by the American Society of Landscape Architects shares that, in landscapes, approximately 75% of emissions stem from embodied carbon generated through the extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and installation of landscape materials. 

Join landscape industry expert Marketa Hermova for an enlightening webinar on estimating embodied carbon and utilizing tools that empower you to make impactful design choices regarding material and product specifications. This session will also showcase how you can actively tackle a landscape project's carbon footprint through workflows highlighted in a project case study.

To receive 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.

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Landscapes
Landscapes
1h
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Get an overview of Vectorworks Embodied Carbon Calculator (VECC), a pre-formatted worksheet that allows you to estimate the project's embodied carbon.
  2. Explore the data difference in Vectorworks Landmark and learn about a custom record format for tracking a material's attributes, properties, and embodied carbon.
  3. Gain knowledge of the existing workflows and the embodied carbon assessment for a project in its early or advanced development stage.

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Residential Landscape Design from Concept to Completion

Beginner
1h 14m

Residential Landscape Design from Concept to Completion

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Discover the journey of residential landscape design from concept to completion in Vectorworks.

Landscapes
Landscapes
1h 14m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn a quick project set up and site analysis
  2. Gain an understanding of site grading and 3D modelling
  3. Explore rendering techniques and tools for the creation of landscape plans and visuals

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Vectorworks & Bluebeam - Integration Using the Bluebeam Connection

Beginner
5m

Vectorworks & Bluebeam - Integration Using the Bluebeam Connection

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This tutorial guides you through integrating Vectorworks with Bluebeam Cloud, enabling real-time collaboration on documents across all project phases. You'll learn how to create and manage Bluebeam sessions directly from Vectorworks, publish document sets to review, review and markup documents in real-time, and download markups back into Vectorworks. This video also covers converting markups into BCF issues for streamlined issue management, providing a seamless workflow for designers and collaborators.

All Industries
All Industries
5m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the integration between Vectorworks and Bluebeam Cloud. Learners will be able to explain how to connect Vectorworks projects to Bluebeam Cloud, including signing into a Bluebeam account, creating review sessions, and inviting collaborators.
  2. Apply collaboration tools in Bluebeam Cloud. Learners will be able to use Bluebeam Cloud tools to add markups, comments, and manage permissions in real-time collaboration sessions, ensuring efficient communication and organization.
  3. Utilize markup and issue management features. Learners will be able to download markups from Bluebeam Cloud into Vectorworks, manage them as collaboration objects, and convert them into BCF issues for streamlined BIM collaboration workflows.

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Revit Interoperability with Vectorworks Landmark: A Guide

Advanced
45m

Revit Interoperability with Vectorworks Landmark: A Guide

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This guide will focus on file exchanges Vectorworks Landmark (or Design Suite) design professionals have with collaborators using Autodesk’s Revit® proprietary format (RVT) and the Revit family file format (RFA). With its 2017 version, Vectorworks introduced RVT and RFA import capabilities, and with version 2020, RVT export was introduced, meeting the requests of many users being required to receive and share using these formats. With the 2023 version, Revit referencing was introduced, enabling updates to the RVT or RFA files collaborators share. Since these releases, and with the help of the Open Design Alliance (ODA) libraries, these exchanges have continued to see enhancements, making the user collaboration experience easier.

Landscapes
Landscapes
45m
Advanced

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn how to confirm a Revit file for import to Vectorworks.
  2. Review Revit import options in Vectorworks.
  3. Explore workgroup referencing considerations and georeference configuration settings.

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Much Ado with Artificial Intelligence

Beginner
50m

Much Ado with Artificial Intelligence

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Take a tour through the world of AI-powered landscape design.

This webinar is your passport to understanding how artificial intelligence is transforming the built environment. From Generative AI applications optimizing design and analysis workflows to robots monitoring wetland restoration and dry stacking stone walls, you’ll witness compelling case studies of how AI can be a collaborator — not just a tool — in the design and planning process.

To receive 1 LA CES PDH and 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.

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Landscapes
Landscapes
50m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Gain a reasonable understanding of the field and applications of artificial intelligence and their context in the built environment.
  2. Examine case studies of AI integration in landscape and urban design.
  3. Learn mental models for human-AI partnership in the design process.

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Lakehouse Landscape Project

Intermediate

Lakehouse Landscape Project

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This Lakehouse Landscape project provides a BIM workflow demonstration, showing the process of modelling residential landscape using Vectorworks Landmark. The focus rests firmly on the BIM process and explores the progress of the model through digital work stages and Level of Information Need, all the while referencing back to the UK BIM Framework and ISO19650 relevant standards.

Parametric tools, intelligent objects, data handling and creating associated views from the BIM model are demonstrated as best practice use, to streamline and optimise the design and modelling process while ensuring the maximum quality and consistency of delivery information.)

Landscapes
Landscapes
Intermediate

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