MOVING TO VECTORWORKS FOR INTERIORS: A GUIDE TO SIMPLER WORKFLOWS
Vectorworks Architect supports the entirety of your interiors projects from start to finish. In a
single application, you can fulfill a project from conceptual design to construction documents to
presentations, while taking advantage of a suite of 2D and 3D tools built for designers’ needs that’s
always evolving based on industry standards and customer input. This guide will explore why Vectorworks is great for Interior Designers.
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Interiors
45m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand why Vectorworks is great for Interior Designers.
Explore Vectorworks' suite of intuitive 3D design features.
Learn how to take advantage of Vectorworks' outstanding 2D drafting capabilities.
Explore presentation and visualization techniques to bring your designs to life.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
The updated and modernized user interface makes working in Vectorworks more efficient and easier to customize. The reorganized View and Mode bars bring a wide range of tools to the forefront, so you can decide how to organize and have everything you need right where you need it. And dark mode is now available on both Windows and Mac.
Create higher levels of realism earlier in your design process with improvements to Shaded rendering. Take advantage of unlimited shadow casting in real-time processing to assess your designs more confidently on the fly and quickly determine lighting,
camera, and material setup so you can create better visuals more quickly. The shaded options dialog now includes direct access to lighting controls, like ambient and environmental lighting, and Renderworks background controls. Access all new camera settings that allow you to define depth of field, exposure, and the ability to add bloom for camera-like effects on your shaded render views.
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All Industries
4m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the improvements to Shaded Rendering in Vectorworks 2024.
With new Viewport Styles in Vectorworks 2024, you'll be able to save custom viewport settings as styles, making them easily transferrable between viewports and project files. You'll be able to cut out the tedium of replicating your viewport settings and avoid errors. Create custom styles that let you change scale
or class and layer visibility so you can change from client-facing drawings to
more detailed construction plans quickly and easily. Quickly generate presentations from your section
viewports by changing class visibilities, cut plane attributes, and
visibilities at the cut plane and beyond. Easily interchange different rendering modes,
foreground and background rendering settings, and image effects. You can also
save your data visualization settings as Viewport Styles for faster
application.
Video
All Industries
3m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new Viewport Styles available in Vectorworks 2024
Experience more freedom when transforming your models. The new 3D Dragger will always appear in front of the selected objects for easy access, and contextual handles for translation, rotation, and scale provide comprehensive and intuitive ways to transform selected objects without disruptions. Additional modes like snap-free, planar, and auxiliary rotation options give you the control you need to make your modeling process smoother.
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All Industries
2m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the new interactive 3D Dragger in Vectorworks 2024.
Experience better connectivity to external project data stored in Excel files. With the new Microsoft Excel referencing capabilities, you'll be able to create a new reference in Vectorworks, meaning you can opt for automatic updates to referenced files. Additionally, you can make changes in Vectorworks and push the data back to Excel.
Video
All Industries
2m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn about the Excel referencing capabilities in Vectorworks 2024.