2D & 3D Modelling

Easily sketch, model, render and document your design concepts with precise drafting tools and a highly versatile 3D modelling engine, powered by SIEMENS Parasolid. Enjoy complete freedom, unrestricted by presets or strict parameters, allowing you to bring any idea to life exactly as you envision it.

Completely Customisable

Adapt to every stage of your project with ease — smoothly move from massing models to BIM models to construction documents. Our design-focused BIM workflow streamlines the entire process, enhancing your overall efficiency.

Easily Create Presentations and documentation

Vectorworks allows you to produce remarkable line drawings and 3D presentations with an array of printing options to help create presentations your clients love. Plus, documentation is very easy to create. Run “what if” scenarios, automate schedules and calculate costs to maximise each design element.

Pre-design

Vectorworks Architect offers greater compatibility with common file formats than any other BIM solution, allowing you to gather all the essential information to kick-start your project. It provides a complete toolkit for conceptual design, site planning, and analysis within a single interface. Effortlessly confirm design intent as you progress from massing models to concept models.

Schematic Design

Bring your creative vision to life using intuitive drawing tools backed by a versatile, user-friendly modelling engine, ideal for space planning and programming. Seamlessly move from massing models to a BIM model, visualize concepts with built-in 3D rendering, and effortlessly share high-quality graphics with your team via Vectorworks Cloud Services.

Design Development

As your project becomes more detailed, Vectorworks Architect enables efficient consultant coordination and supports cost estimation, all while fine-tuning design choices. Smart information modelling keeps data accessible and makes reporting straightforward.

Design Development

Employing 3D data-driven tools from the start ensures high model quality and simplifies construction documentation. With Vectorworks Architect’s BIM capabilities, changes to your model instantly reflect in the documentation. Work seamlessly with others while preserving your design process, using software supporting every project phase.

Curbs, Edging and Borders

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.

Landscape-Specific BIM

Calculate construction costs and material takeoffs, analyse terrain for cut/fill, slope, and drainage, evaluate water budgets, and track sustainability goals. With all this information at your fingertips, you can make the best design decision the first time..

Create Landscape Areas

Landscape Areas have intuitive style and instance setting and naming, saving you time with more automated documentation and labelling. Address erosion, urban heat island, and biodiversity deficiency with settings to support your sustainability goals. Customise 2D and 3D representations to easily visualise, communicate, and collaborate.

Point Cloud Support

Using your preferred 3D scanning device, you can capture a physical location and import a 3D point cloud object into Vectorworks Landmark using PTS, E57, LAS, and XYZ file formats. Supporting point cloud technology not only provides a real way for landscape architects and designers to model efficiently and affordably with more accuracy than ever before, but it also makes modelling, inferring, and referencing data easier.

Previsualisation

Real-time previsualisation 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 visualisation.

GDTF File Mapping

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.

Truss and Lights Snapping and Insertion

Truss corner alignment and light fixture snapping let you control the assembly of a rigging system. Easily choose which truss chord to accurately snap equipment and select fixture hanging angles upon insertion. Save time with less manual work when aligning trusses and snapping fixtures to build a more accurate model with better documentation.

Produce traditional architectural 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.

Let project participants view and comment on your document from anywhere on any web browser, 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.

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 customisable project finishes and data visualisation to help you streamline reporting, leaving you the time to focus on customising your space.

With a tool that balances automation with flexible customisation, you can create finely detailed countertops and easily achieve quality visuals and reports. Manage countertops across projects with customisable styles and find superior control of design features like overhangs and backsplashes. With efficient modelling and automatic hole cuts, you’ll have the time to create whatever you can imagine without having to worry about manual processes.