Real-time previsualization is available directly inside Vectorworks to bring you intuitive, live control of lighting fixtures and the ability to test run your show without leaving the application. Explore countless lighting and scenic possibilities and then experiment, edit, and adjust to your satisfaction based on your previsualization.
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Learn about Showcase, the new real-time previsualization mode, released with Vectorworks Spotlight 2025.
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.
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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.
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Learn about the new Curb tool, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Assign classifications to Vectorworks objects and sub-parts and manage them centrally with a rules-and-criteria-based system that is easy to follow. Save time and reduce risk for errors with automated application of local and national classification standards in a BIM collaboration and specification writing workflow.
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Buildings
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Learn about the new BIM Construction Classification feature, 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.
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Learn about the new Object Level Visibility feature, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Vectorworks Spotlight 2025 includes several user interface and workflow efficiency improvements. From Truss insertion and alignment improvements, to impproved light fixture snapping, automatic numbering, schematic view creation, and more.
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Learn about additional improvements released with Vectorworks Spotlight 2025.
Take a versatile approach to your projects with the ability to select multiple walls and apply surface finishes in a single operation. Then manage, annotate, and create reports with customizable project finishes and data visualization to help you streamline reporting, leaving you the time to focus on customizing your space.
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Learn about the improvements to Room Finishes, released with Vectorworks 2025.
Keep your files up to date with GDTF Mapping, giving you accurate fixture information to avoid errors. Map GDTF files to fixtures with direct access to GDTF-Share to download and import the files in one action from within Vectorworks. Automatically update all GDTF profiles with one command and store assigned GDTFs within their lighting devices.
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Learn about the new GDTF File Mapping feature, released with Vectorworks Spotlight 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.
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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.
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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).
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All Industries
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Learn about the new Onscreen View Control introduced with Vectorworks 2025.
Produce traditional architectural compositions views with ease using Two-point Perspective mode. Toggled on with a single click, you can work with it directly in design layers or add it to saved views and sheet viewports to provide a clear understanding of a 3D view. Once activated, it stays activated even when you change your view.
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All Industries
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Learn about the new Two-Point Perspective mode, released with Vectorworks 2025.
