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Living Light: A Look at Architainment Lighting

Beginner
27m

Living Light: A Look at Architainment Lighting

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As architecture, technology, and entertainment continue to converge, lighting plays a central role in transforming public spaces into immersive, interactive experiences.

Join Amy D Lux, founder and principal designer at LoboLux Design, for insights into one of the most creative, cutting-edge disciplines in lighting design today.

Entertainment
Entertainment
27m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Explore how innovative design, advanced control systems, and narrative-driven techniques redefine how designers and audiences alike engage with buildings, bridges, and urban environments.
  2. Gain valuable design advice for shaping dynamic, culturally resonant spaces.
  3. Understand the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration in architainment lighting.

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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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Streamline AV Design with ConnectCAD

Beginner
59m

Streamline AV Design with ConnectCAD

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Built on Vectorworks Spotlight, ConnectCAD streamlines your AV design with easy-to-read schematics, rack layouts, live error-checking, and detailed reports.

Join Matt Artigues, Vectorworks entertainment industry specialist, on March 26 to discover the answers to ConnectCAD’s most frequently asked questions. You’ll also learn how ConnectCAD’s customizable templates, hybrid 2D/3D environment, and ability to create a custom device library make collaboration seamless and ensure precision at every stage of your project.

Entertainment
Entertainment
59m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn about ConnectCAD, Vectorworks’ audio-visual design software, and how it can elevate your AV design workflows.
  2. Understand how to customize ConnectCAD devices and equipment, build new devices using the database, and leverage adapters for streamlined design flexibility.
  3. Explore advanced connection workflows, including multi-mode Connect tool usage, managing connections between layers, and using tools like Reshape and ReRoute to refine circuit layouts efficiently.
  4. Discover a practical workflow for using simple Spotlight cables to assign circuits, estimate lengths, and manage paths without requiring a full cable path model.

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How Not to Break Project Sharing

Intermediate
54m

How Not to Break Project Sharing

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How Not to Break Project Sharing by Diana Kesselschmidt, Technical Director/Production Manager & Lighting Designer 

Presentation from LDI 2024

Entertainment
Entertainment
54m
Intermediate

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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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Two-Ferring and Daisy Chaining Lights

Advanced
7m

Two-Ferring and Daisy Chaining Lights

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In Vectorworks 2025, users can configure multi-circuit cabling with new settings, including circuit numbering and naming. The twofer configuration allows for easy selection and assignment to connectors. Fixtures are positioned on a truss for better visibility, and a pass-through capability enables daisy chaining lights. The system supports various numbering schemes and displays cable run IDs, ensuring flexibility and clarity in connections.

Entertainment
Entertainment
7m
Advanced

Learning Objectives

  1. Configure and manage multi-circuit cabling preferences: Participants will be able to set up and utilize cable preferences for multi-circuit cabling, including assigning cable IDs to twofers and customizing numbering schemes for efficient circuiting and cable management.

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Custom Records for Lighting Devices

Intermediate
7m

Custom Records for Lighting Devices

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This Tips & Tricks video will demonstrate how to attach custom records to a lighting symbol and access it along side the other lighting parameters in the Object Info Palette

Entertainment
Entertainment
7m
Intermediate

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn how to connect custom records to the lighting device parameters list

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Developing Light Plots for Broadway

Intermediate
45m

Developing Light Plots for Broadway

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Join lighting designer Joshua Benghiat as he takes you behind the scenes of the Broadway production of Our Town at the Barrymore Theatre, directed by Kenny Leon and lit by Allen Lee Hughes.

Benghiat, associate lighting designer for the production, will share his process for designing and executing a complex lighting plan, balancing the team’s artistic vision with technical precision. Learn how he tackled unique design challenges — such as hanging lanterns, unconventional audience seating, and limited fixture placement — while leveraging digital tools like Vectorworks and BeamViz for visualization and pre-planning.

This session will highlight the role of 3D modeling, visualization, and data visualization in streamlining the lighting workflow, offering valuable insights for designers at all levels.

Entertainment
Entertainment
45m
Intermediate

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the design challenges and problem-solving strategies in developing a Broadway lighting plot.
  2. Explore how digital tools like Vectorworks, BeamViz, and 3D visualization enhance pre-planning and collaboration.
  3. Gain insights into executing and adjusting a lighting design from concept through tech rehearsals.

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AI Visualizer - Advanced Features

Beginner
3m

AI Visualizer - Advanced Features

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Refine and customize your AI-generated images with advanced tools: inpainting for precise edits, image style transfer for custom colors and materials, and enhanced detail creation for professional-quality results. Streamlined workflows make creating textures, fills, and props effortless, while adjustable aspect ratios and selection-aware buttons save time and simplify integration into Vectorworks.

All Industries
All Industries
3m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. By the end of this video, viewers will be able to apply the advanced features of the Vectorworks AI Visualizer, including Style Transfer, Inpainting, and detail enhancement, to streamline their design workflow and create high-quality, presentation-ready visuals.

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Nomad iOS App

Beginner
5m

Nomad iOS App

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Discover the Nomad iOS app, featuring a sleek and intuitive interface. Access, review, and markup Vectorworks documents for collaboration on the go. Take advantage of Apple’s lidar-based Reality Capture for precise object scanning. Harness the convenient guest mode to easily share documents with your external collaborators or simply try out its capabilities.

All Industries
All Industries
5m
Beginner

Learning Objectives

  1. Learn about the latest updates to the Vectorworks iOS Nomad app, release with Vectorworks 2025 Update 4.

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