Open a whole new world of visual understanding and communication through your design process. Find new workflows that will change the way you work with collaborators, saving you time at each design stage.
Show, enlarge, hide or isolate specific objects with individual visibility control. Navigate to specific parts of your model by isolating objects and creating custom drawings or viewports to communicate your design intention clearly. Apply object visibility directly into your design layer, or save it to viewports and data views. Find fast and flexible workflows while working harmoniously with Class and Layer visibility.
Produce traditional architectural views with ease using Two Point Perspective mode. Activated with a single click, you can work with this mode in design layers or add it to saved sheet views and viewports to provide a clear interpretation in a 3D view. Once activated, it remains activated even when your view changes.
Discover one-click navigation that allows easy and instant access to all views of your model, and interactive model orbit by clicking-dragging. Optional XYZ axle presentation, compass direction, and work plans help you steer and navigate your model effortlessly. Easily disable it with a pop-up box (but you won’t want to).
Process your Revit file exports conveniently in the Vectorworks cloud so you can continue your design without interruption. Simplify your life by scheduling automatic exports to be done in the background. Save time and ensure consistency when importing Revit files with predefined settings that can be saved and customized even more.
Simplify your collaboration with direct configuration options for Vectorworks Project Sharing — choose whether you want cloud, network or server based sharing, and get your job started. Shared project files can be worked and stored on any cloud service, and backups are automatically saved as offline files for your convenience.
Save time with high-quality, continuous DXF / DWG collaboration, providing detailed and flexible control of inbound and outbound file structure and graphics, to deliver accurate deliveries the first time, each time.
Make a smooth transition between versions of Vectorworks with advanced options in the Migration Manager. Custom settings can be converted from up to five previous versions, saving you time each time you update.
See the Vectorworks data difference with Data Labels that recognize objects and object subparts. Choose from automatic numbering options in the clockwise direction of the clock, and define dynamic text with spreadsheet-style formulas. Meet exact annotation and dimension standards by fine-tuning text design down to the superscript level.
Find freedom and flexibility in the ability to define custom Unit settings, including units, unit marks, approach style, and approximation precision, all tailored. Achieve drawing compliance in a wide variety of scenarios, for individual levels as desired or as required by local jurisdictions. And easily transfer custom drive settings between documents.
The Cutting Cube feature supports the Hidden Line, Stroke Hidden Line and Polygon render modes in design layers and viewports, giving you a clear display with layers and cracked classes. These advanced display capabilities, along with nuanced Renderworks and Render modes, help you communicate your design intention clearly through refined drawings.
Personalize and share workspaces between team members with an easy and intuitive interface. You’ll find superior features like the ability to select multiple tools and commands, drag and drop capabilities, a search bar, and a quick way to change keyboard shortcuts, all designed to save you time creating and managing workspaces.
Discover the flexibility you need to spice up your best ideas — update your BIM workflow with features to help you reduce errors in your modeling and documentation processes to facilitate compliance with standards.
With a tool that balances automation with flexible customization, you can create delicately detailed mesons and easily achieve high-quality visuals and reports. Manage inns on projects with customizable styles, and find superior control of design features like overhangs and splash guards. With efficient modeling and automatic hole cutting, you will have the time to create everything you imagine without having to worry about manual processes.
Take a versatile approach with your projects with the ability to select multiple walls and apply surface finishes in a single operation. Then manage, annotate, and create reports with project finishes and customizable data visualizations to help you streamline reporting, leaving you time to focus on customizing your space.
Assign classifications to Vectorworks objects and subparts, and manage them centrally with an easy-to-follow rule and criteria based system. Save time, and reduce the risk of errors, by automatically applying local and national classification standards in a collaborative and specification BIM workflow.
Discover features to quickly and easily adopt BIM in your workflow. With tools created to facilitate compliance with industry standards, you will save time designing and documenting your projects.
Design precise curbs, boundaries, and edge elements based on profile extrusions or placement of individual units. Create these elements as standalone or seamlessly integrate them with pavements and landscape areas. Specify corner and insert details, and define front and rear curb modifier points for easy terrain manipulation. Design styles will make you more consistent and save you time while you worry less about the need for revisions.
Carry out a topographic study or establish a reference point quickly and easily with a single operation, saving you time and avoiding complications between collaborators. Perfect for new and existing projects, place a study point anywhere in the document to specify coordinates, true north angles, and 2D and 3D elevation information.
Landscape areas have intuitive style and instance nomenclature and configuration, saving you time with more automated documentation and labeling. Addresses erosion, urban heat islands and biodiversity deficiency with configurations that support your sustainability goals. Personalize 2D and 3D representations to easily visualize, communicate, and collaborate.
Accelerate your leveling process by intuitively adding and editing earrings in flat block site modifiers. With options for configuring level changes per slope or using start and end elevations, you will ensure impeccable model accuracy. Integrated annotations for your flat block site modifier earrings mean less time tagging, checking, and editing point elevations.
Easily specify visual attributes, slope specifications, and sustainability-driven design settings, such as permeability and solar reflectance. Pavement configurations are more consistent with other smart objects, facilitating their use and giving them the ability to define more information and make smarter design decisions.
Discover the latest updates designed directly from your feedback. Several features in the latest version were specifically implemented to address the most widely used tools in the entertainment industry, evolving software to meet your needs. And what’s better, preview has found a home directly inside Vectorworks with Showcase so you can iterate over your ideas without leaving the app.
Real-time preview is available directly within Vectorworks to provide you with intuitive, live control of luminaires, and the ability to test your show without leaving the app. Explore countless lighting and stage possibilities, and then experience, edit, and adjust as much as you like based on your preview.
Keep your files up to date with GDTF Assignment, giving you accurate accessory information to avoid mistakes. Assign GDTF files to accessories with direct access to GDTF-Share to download and import the files into an action from within Vectorworks. Update all GDTF profiles automatically with a command, and store assigned GTDFs inside your luminaires.
Truss corner alignment and light fixture coupling allows you to control the assembly of a rig system. Easily choose which truss rope to attach equipment accurately, and select accessory suspension angles at insertion time. Save time with less manual labor by aligning trusses and coupling accessories to build a more accurate model with better documentation.
Creating receptive Schematic Views is possible at any stage of your design workflow. Automatically drive changes between the Schematic View and your 3D model without having to move between them, ensuring that updates occur quickly and quickly without further adjustment on your part.
Create Energy Diagrams the way you want with customizable designs that make it easy to meet project needs. Decide what to include and where it is created in your file, and then edit the schematic diagram keeping its current design when updated. Present your energy calculations or create reports to document your energy plan.
Your cable planning process is fast and intuitive with an easy editing and configuration workflow with a dialog that allows you to configure selected cable groups and cable sections. Save time with more options and data available by generating reports. And reduce the risk of errors with clearer and more consistent error messages.
Stay at the forefront of productivity with Audio, Video and Scenification tools, as well as Textile Genres and Soga and Mounting, all designed to deliver a high level of detail to your design without sacrificing any detail. More design options ensure your ability to present a wide variety of data, and to document that data as accurately as possible.
The Continuous Error Check Internet Palette scans your documents in real time, highlighting potential errors before they become problems. Spend less time tracking potential errors and see potential problems in a table format, giving you a clear and easy-to-follow process to remedy problems as they arise.
Set up and focus your lighting rig even before setting foot in an enclosure. With convenient Focus, Scroll, Tilt and Trigger controls on the Object Information palette, you can fine-tune your conventional accessories with graphical sliders that give you superior control and better visual feedback by using nuanced Render mode.
Quick access to all flange related settings in one location streamlines your flange drawing workflow, helping you focus on your design. Label important elements of your flanges automatically while drawing, and take advantage of specialized data labels for all the elements of your flanges to support the preparation of the documentation your team needs.
Take your designs with you to keep your projects active. See how this version makes it easier for you and your collaborators to always be aware of changes in projects.
Let project participants view and comment on your document from anywhere on any web browser, placing your projects in front of them faster. Share selected drawings and spreadsheets, and allow contributors to select areas of interest to access object specifications. They can add comments that you can see without Vectorworks, streamlining their review process. Once you have made your changes, share quickly updated documents in the same way.
