The
reality of the climate crisis forces architects to implement sustainable design
practices. In this webinar, the Arkin Tilt Architect team will discuss how
emerging methods can help reduce a project’s carbon footprint while enabling
you to design captivating structures your clients love.
Discover
the tools you need to gain confidence in educating your clients and
stakeholders and to help you make informed decisions while designing.
To receive 1 AIA HSW LU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Text and Video
Buildings
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Summarize the impact of carbon emissions
from the building industry to better educate clients on how reducing carbon can
positively affect the environment and their physical and mental health.
Explore the benefits of using
Building Information Models and recognize their importance in assessing a
building’s carbon footprint.
Analyze and compare various
materials using EPD and data-driven modeling methods to assess a project’s
carbon potential and help make informed design decisions.
Use data-driven carbon assessment tools to educate your
clients and stakeholders on how material selection/specification can negatively
or positively impact the environment and our biological health
Thinking about the possibility of changing software may feel daunting, but you can take on the learning curve and succeed. And when you do, there are many tangible benefits you will gain.
Join Neil Barman, Vectorworks Architect product specialist, Architect AIBC, in this webinar as he discusses techniques for learning a new software and approaching Vectorworks. He'll demonstrate foundational strategies to help you get started in Vectorworks, provide tips for working smarter, not harder, and equip you with support resources to improve your skills once you move to Vectorworks.
Video
Buildings
31m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Acquire seven simple strategies for testing
Vectorworks features during your trial period.
Assess which Vectorworks features yield the most
significant learning (and efficiency) gains, improving your design workflow.
Gain familiarity navigating the user interface
to locate and deploy the nine essential tools and commands for designing and
documenting your project in Vectorworks Architect.
Access Vectorworks' instructional and technical
support resources, such as onboarding paths, Vectorworks University, and the
Online Help System, to grow your knowledge and skills.
Combine the strength of Vectorworks with the speed of AI image generation powered by Stable Diffusion. Directly available within the Vectorworks interface, this experimental feature uses Vectorworks Cloud Services for a zero-install, uninterrupted workflow to quickly ideate illustrative concepts or create refined images using your Vectorworks models at any stage of design.
Video
All Industries
5m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore the new AI Visualizer released with Vectorworks 2024 Update 4.
Explore your designs with Vectorworks Odyssey, a virtual reality viewer app created for Meta Quest 2 headsets and beyond. Experience models in immersive VR with bird's-eye view and walkthrough modes. Gain better context for quick and thorough feedback, including cycling through design options with access to design layer visibilities.
Video
All Industries
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore the new Vectorworks Odyssey viewer for Meta Quest 2 headsets, released with Vectorworks 2024 Update 4.
The Grotto is a penthouse/rooftop private club project.
Designed on a historic building in Chicago. It incorporates biophilia principles.
Chicago has 509 vegetated roofs with 5,564,000 square feet green roof coverage. Initiatives began in 2001 with their city hall green roof to reduce heat island effect and storm water management.
ENHANCING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH MATERIALS AND BIM
We live in a world of
limited resources, and the AEC industry not only has a large impact on the use
of those resources, but also the overall health of our planet. As designers, it
is important to consider the impact of the project not only on the environment,
but also on the health of its occupants.
In this course, we’ll
discuss how to better identify and reduce a design’s carbon footprint using
Building Information Modeling (BIM). Specifying high-quality, sustainable
materials for interiors can not only lead to longer product life cycles and
better energy management, but also benefit the overall health of the occupant
by limiting the use of toxic substances and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
We’ll demonstrate how BIM gives the designer more control over a building’s
level of sustainability – such as generating embodied carbon calculations – and
gives the designer more opportunities to enhance the aesthetics and occupant
comfort by using a systems approach.
Video
Buildings
1h
Beginner
Learning Objectives
List the seven core principles
of sustainable construction.
Explain how high-quality
materials lead to the health, safety, and welfare of occupants, a reduction of
embodied carbon, and less waste.
Describe how materials and BIM software provide
a systems approach that leads to more efficient buildings.
Recognize how high-quality
materials and design can lead to cost savings and a reduced carbon footprint
without sacrificing aesthetics or occupant comfort.
In this course, we'll learn how to connect an external database to the records in our drawing. Using SQLite as a database source, we'll quickly fill our records with data without having to manually retype anything.
Video
All Industries
15m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Explore the Database commands and tools.
Connect an external SQL database to our existing records.
Transfer our data back and forth between our model and the external database.
When creating documentation, architects and designers need to label drawing elements. In a BIM workflow, modeled objects contain data, and that data can be visualized using smart labels. In Vectorworks, any object’s data can be labeled using the Data Tag tool. In this course, you will learn how harness the power of Data Tags in Vectorworks software, to not only report data, but also push data to objects and giving you an intuitive way to append data in your designs.
Text
Buildings
1h
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Learn how to place a Data Tag.
Understand how to create Data Tag Styles.
Learn how to associate data to a Data Tag, edit that data, and edit the layout of the tag.
Looking to up your game regarding
the safety and efficiency of your projects?
Incorporating
Vectorworks' intuitive site design workflows is just the beginning. Take it up
a notch by utilizing AutoTURN Online, an invaluable tool that brings vehicle
turn maneuvers to life. Through these simulations, you'll gain valuable
insights into the functional and operational constraints of your project's
vehicular circulation design.
Join Andres Velez, a
civil and transportation expert, and witness the power of AutoTURN and
Vectorworks.
To receive 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Video
Buildings/Landscapes
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand
the role vehicle turn simulations (swept path analysis) play in ensuring
vehicles can enter, circulate, and exit sites, parking lots, ramps, and
buildings.
Learn
critical aspects of the analysis and how it can help streamline the design and
approval process.
Explore
case studies demonstrating how this analysis can uncover design weaknesses and
potential bottlenecks.
Spend more time designing and less time documenting using Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows and smart documentation tools. In this webinar, Sarah Barrett, associate AIA and senior architect product specialist at Vectorworks, will discuss how
data visualization and Data Tags can help document your model efficiently.
Join this webinar to gain valuable insights on tools like Viewport Styles, Graphic Legends, Grid Lines, and Elevation Benchmarks to maximize your data automation and leverage smart tools for documentation.
To receive 1 AIA LU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Video
Buildings
49m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Review how BIM resources can be organized and coordinated to maintain drawing standards and document efficiently.
Discuss various
documentation tools, such as Data Tags and Viewport Styles, that can streamline
the documentation process.
Learn multiple methods
of documenting project elements and quantities and creating drawing keys using
Graphic Legends.
Communicate and document
various sets of data by changing the appearance of objects based on their
properties.
Join us to see how four Vectorworks 3D modeling experts create their projects in Vectorworks Fundamentals. They’ll showcase some of the many versatile tools and workflows of the software to design and showcase their projects.
Come see the power
of solid, subdivision, and NURBS modeling, surface arrays, rendering and lighting techniques, and much more.
Video
All Industries
40m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Identify the various 3D modeling technologies and techniques in Vectorworks Fundamentals.
Recognize the extensive file import and export options available in Fundamentals including avenues to 3D printing and other fabrication.
Discuss the process of modeling your work and creating its associated 2D drawings.
Describe the range of rendering styles available to depict and present your project.
NCS® is a universal language for colour communication and is an integral part of designers and architect’s toolkit when ideating, selecting and communicating colours. With an array of curated colour collections and intuitive features for finding exactly
the right colour based on the smartness of the Natural Colour System (NCS), NCS+ users can easily find the right colour palette.
In this video, Kesoon Chance, senior industry specialist at Vectorworks will discuss the NCS+ Pro integration
in Vectorworks, showing you how to get started and making it easier to take your colours from idea to production.
Video
Buildings/Interiors
5m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Explore the NCS+ Pro web palette.
Learn how to install the NCS+ Pro web palette in Vectorworks.
Understand how to navigate the NCS+ Pro web palette.