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.
Though 3D-modeled landscapes are becoming more common in
design workflows, many still hesitate to involve valuable techniques in all
areas of their design workflow.
A key benefit to incorporating 3D and BIM in your landscape
design, beyond selling, is analysis. In this session, you'll learn how to
leverage the power of solar, terrain, building, and landscape feature modeling
to better analyze site conditions, advise clients, and validate design choices.
By integrating 3D with 2D design workflows, there's less
disruption in getting to a sellable, better-performing solution for your
clients.
Video
Landscapes
50m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Recognize how modeled terrains can visualize grade changes
and analyze for cut/fill, slope, and surface drainage flow.
Understand how sun and shade studies can analyze existing
conditions and propose landscape solutions to your clients.
Realize where integrating 3D workflows can be less
disruptive to design development and build efficiencies for each subsequent
project.
Learn how 3D objects can provide crucial estimating data for
costing and material reports.
Join Vectorworks on creative journey
of crafting customised symbols, materials and other resources that can help you
to create bespoke landscape plans. In this session, we will share some of the
tips and tricks to generate your own resources in 2D and 3D. Using workgroup
libraries, we will explore ways to save, edit and share content with your
colleagues and project co-workers. Stay on track with updating your firm’s
libraries while using customised content and producing plans that meet the
industry standard. Suitable for all levels, we will explore some of the new
features that can help you to optimise the graphics of your landscape plans and
specifications.
Dive into the essential foundations of creating a robust template
file and its real-life implementation with this webinar.
Along with Mauro Pujia, lighting designer, YOK Studios,
you’ll explore the intricacies of organizing design layers, classes, and views
for live event design. Additionally, you’ll learn how graphic legends,
worksheets, and other tools boost efficiency.
With
purpose-built tools, you’ll be able to create organized template files that
maximize your day-to-day design execution.
Video
Entertainment
45m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Learn how to leverage graphic legends,
worksheets, and other tools directly within your sheet design, allowing for
efficient duplication and strategic organization to optimize client navigation
through the final outputs.
Discover effective techniques for organizing
both internal and external export materials, including MVR, FBX, 3DS, DWG, and
more.
Engage in a series of short exercises to
highlight the tangible benefits of adopting a solid and organized template.
In this webinar, you’ll
observe a phase-by-phase breakdown of an urban landscape design project. By
demystifying the design process, you’ll discover effective ways to use
technology to deliver your work in multiple design phases of a landscape
project. Click here to access The Cube Landscape Project sample file.
To receive 1 APLD CEU, please make sure to login and complete the quiz after watching our webinar.
Video
Landscapes
40m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Identify the benefits of
design software across multiple landscape design phases.
Understand the
professional competencies of digital design and project management.
Witness innovative
approaches to project problem-solving with design software.
Comprehend the
intersection of landscape design, digital technology, visualization, and camera
effects.
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.
Learn more about digital tools that can help you
streamline site analyses for your projects. We will dive deeper into data
import options while exploring new ways to work with topographical surveys in
both 2D and 3D. Helping you to create sustainable landscape schemes, we will
look at the site model data and the best practice to evaluate the site’s slope,
elevation, surface water flow and site context using georeferencing and
satellite images. Explore the benefits of the feature layers and how they can help
you make early-stage design decisions with ease.
Video
Landscapes
40m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Data import
options
Learn how to create sustainable landscape schemes
Best practice to evaluate site's slope, elevation and
surface water flow
COMPARING BRACEWORKS TO TRADITIONAL CALCULATION METHODS
Join Ben Elmore, Freeman
project manager, for a webinar on how you can calculate with confidence using
Braceworks, Vectorworks’ entertainment rigging analysis module.
Elmore will lead an
in-depth comparison of calculation methods in Braceworks vs more traditional
methods.
Video
Entertainment
40m
Intermediate
Learning Objectives
Understand the efficiency advantages of using Braceworks for entertainment rigging calculations.
Observe the three most common methods by which entertainment riggers calculate load distributions.
Discover the pros and cons of each traditional calculation method, comparing them to Braceworks calculations.
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.
Layout rooms and rack planning updates in Vectorworks 2024 open new planning and design possibilities for your A/V workflows.
This webinar, hosted by Jesse Cogdell, European entertainment product specialist, will explore how your new workflow will function, and how you can leverage the latest features in ConnectCAD in Vectorworks 2024.
Video
Entertainment
28m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Discover how ConnectCAD offers a more consistent workflow for your rack and panel planning.
Understand the improvements to 3D rack support and how 3D layouts
make planning multi-floor projects easier.
Learn about new equipment
rack options and the Equipment Item tool.
The design and construction of built environments often require complex inputs across numerous stakeholders and disciplines. Shifts in scale require the translation of site analysis, design drivers, and principles. Advanced geospatial analysis tools and
3D geospatial data have the potential to facilitate design outcomes that are responsive to climate and context. However, communicating and integrating this data across disciplines can be a challenge.
Enter Vectorworks Landmark and Esri.
This webinar will explore multidisciplinary design and planning McGregor Coxall’s projects and workflows, demonstrating how integrated feedback loops between Vectorworks’ CAD/BIM process and Esri’s geospatial analysis can result in site-responsive
and data-driven outcomes. It will also delve into how design concepts can feed back into the Esri platform to assess the best final project through quantitative scenario testing and how to communicate complex 2D and 3D outcomes to clients and stakeholders
visually and interactively.
Video
Landscapes
1h 1m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand how Vectorworks and Esri’s integration
facilitates multi-disciplinary collaboration across multiple scales.
Explore the key workflows that enable
a circular feedback loop between Vectorworks and Esri’s platforms within the
design process.
Consider ways in which 2D and 3D
spatial design outcomes can be communicated visually in an innovative yet
simple way to clients.
With nearly a decade of experience in production and 15 years in IT and networking, Geoff Franklin brings a unique blend of skills to his work for Church of the Highlands. In this webinar, discover how Franklin uses structured Vectorworks Spotlight files to create memorable moments that enrich the worship experience.
Video
Entertainment
37m
Beginner
Learning Objectives
Understand
the value that structure template files in Vectorworks Spotlight can add to
your House of Worship productions.
Witness the
value of Project Sharing when collaborating across multiple departments.
Learn how Franklin keeps his Vectorworks files
across multiple projects.