Vectorworks - File size:
- 4.8 GB
- Date added:
- Apr 29, 2024 | Last update check: 1 minute ago
- Licence:
- Trial | Buy Now
- Runs on:
- Windows 10 64-bit / 11
Vectorworks is a CAD, BIM and visualization software used across industries, including architecture, landscape and entertainment. Vectorworks originated from MiniCAD, a software that was first released in 1985 as a general purpose CAD program for the Apple Macintosh. Later the version for Windows was released and MiniCAD turned into Vectorworks. Vectorworks is the first major BIM application to run natively on Apple silicon processors.
Vectorworks family of software includes:
- Vectorworks Architect (BIM tool for architects),
- Landmark (for landscape architects),
- Spotlight (for entertainment),
- Fundamentals (for 3D modeling and CAD drafting),
- Designer (includes BIM capabilities of Fundamentals, Architect, Spotlight, and Landmark),
- Bracework (add-on for Spotlight and Designer), and
- Vision (for previsualization).
Vectorworks Architect gives you complete freedom when designing and constructing Building Information models whether you are modeling, documenting, analyzing, revising or collaborating.
With Vectorworks robust 3D modeling tools you can tranform your ideas and discover your ideal design. Create schematic models, explore functional design alternatives, continue to refine your solutions by developing your massive models into BIM models using parametric building elements. Vectorworks BIM modeling capabilities make change management easier across the design process. Develop drawings, schedules and reports directly from your model. Changes in your model will be reflected throughout your documentation.
Using industry standard file formats like IFC you can communicate effectively with consultants and collaborators who use Revit or other BIM software or use your model for clash detection and model checking. Vectorworks Architect also offers DWG, Revit and PDF support for the development of your project.
What’s new in version 2024
2024 Update 4
- AI Visualizer: An experimental tool powered by Stable Diffusion and integrated with Vectorworks Cloud Services, enabling users to quickly generate illustrative concepts or refined images from text prompts, enhancing design exploration without hardware limitations.
- Virtual Reality with Meta Quest: The Vectorworks Odyssey app, developed for Meta Quest 2, allows designers and stakeholders to experience immersive VR models.
- Apple’s Room Plan integration: Enhanced capabilities in the Vectorworks Nomad app enable quick creation of accurate 3D models from iOS, supporting multi-room scans and complex wall shapes, with an improved workflow for importing these models into Vectorworks.
- Redshift progressive mode: Advanced rendering technology providing immediate feedback when fine-tuning 3D views.
- New BIM collaboration tools: An Information Delivery Specification (IDS) feature for validating project information, a modern BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) interface, and improved IFC file export capabilities.
2024
- Core technology and UI: Vectorworks 2024 brings major upgrades to core technology, including an updated UI with Dark Mode and reorganized View and Mode bars for efficiency.
- Rendering and Viewports: Shaded rendering improvements for realism, faster rendered section generation, and the introduction of Viewport Styles to save and transfer settings.
- Collaboration and Project Sharing+: Project Sharing+ is rebuilt for better data and geometry accuracy, tracking every change for improved stability and easier collaboration.
- Modeling enhancements: Visual improvements to the 3D Dragger for smoother model transformations and additional modes for increased control.
- Data connectivity and DWG optimization: Improved Excel referencing for better connectivity to external project data, and DWG import/export optimizations to eliminate tedious file cleanup and reduce duplicated data.
- Vectorworks Architect 2024: BIM-focused upgrades in Vectorworks Architect 2024 save time in design and reduce errors in modeling and documentation processes. Includes improved doors and windows, enhanced stair functionality, and redefined parametric objects.
- Other improvements (Vectorworks Landmark and Spotlight 2024): Vectorworks Landmark 2024 offers faster BIM adoption with improved visuals, organization, and an automated Fence tool. Vectorworks Spotlight 2024 brings quality and performance enhancements, reducing manual work for precise design delivery in the entertainment industry.
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Improved user interafce ©Vectorworks
Improved user interafce ©Vectorworks
Wall component control ©Vectorworks
Per-face texturing ©Vectorworks
New Redshift render mode ©Vectorworks
Direct stair editing ©Vectorworks
New Direct Link to Twinmotion ©Vectorworks
New Direct Link to Twinmotion ©Vectorworks
Worksheet expansion – Added Criteria interface ©Vectorworks
Worksheet expansion ©Vectorworks
Site model components ©Vectorworks
Root Zones feature in Plant Style dialog ©Vectorworks
ArcGIS feature layers ©Vectorworks
New cable and power planning capabilities – Manage Cable Parts dialog ©Vectorworks