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What time is it? Tech roundup time! Here are the latest updates, tech tips, and transition guides, just for you.  Read More

Topics: Service Pack, Getting Started Guides, Vectorworks 2018, July Tech Roundup, Moving from Rhino, Moving from SketchUp, Moving from Grasshopper, SP4 Release, Moving from AutoCAD

While the 2018 Vectorworks Design Summit is the ultimate training experience for you, we also want to give you the chance to train us! Your feedback is important to us, so stop by one of our many Ask the Engineers stations to pitch your ideas. We will listen. Read More

Topics: Research, Cloud, Darick DeHart, 2018 Vectorworks Design Summit, Mobile, Tools & Release, User Interface, User Interaction

We weren’t the only ones who thought Vectorworks 2018 stood out at the AIA 2018 conference in New York, which we attended last month. Read More

Topics: AIA 'Best of Show' award, “BEST of SHOW” award, Vectorworks Architect, Architosh, Vectorworks 2018, Virtual Reality, VR, Web View, BIM software, AIA 2018, 360

In our last Workflow Wednesday post, we helped to ease your transition from SketchUp to Vectorworks so you could become more efficient. This time, we want to help you switch from Rhino to Vectorworks for more flexibility. Read More

Topics: 3D Modeling with Vectorworks, Rhino, Sketchup, 3D Modeling with Vectorworks Tutorial Manual, BIM model, switching from rhino to vectorworks, NURBS modeling, Flexibility

The moveART design studio in Switzerland captivates with its extraordinary designs. And they develop those designs using Marionette, the fully integrated algorithmic modeling tool in Vectorworks. Read More

Topics: Marionette, #MarionetteMonday, moveART, 2018 European Product Design Award, German Design Award, Norbert Roztocki

If you had told Christian A. Kurka five years ago that he would be working toward planning and designing more accessible theater spaces with the help of Vectorworks Spotlight, he probably wouldn’t have believed you. But once he was introduced to the production side of theater, he did not waste any time. Read More

Topics: Vectorworks Spotlight, accessible theater, Boy Gets Girl, ADA compliance, 800 Days, Projection commands, Skateboard Park tutorial, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Southeastern Theatre Conference, SETC, Reshape tool

Last week, members of the Vectorworks team traveled to New York City for the AIA Conference on Architecture 2018. The annual AIA conference offers three days of educational sessions, keynote speakers, training, and an expo hall focused on architecture and design. Read More

Topics: Augmented Reality, Architizer, Architosh, Vectorworks 2018, Virtual Reality, Rendered panoramas, Reality Capture, AIA Conference on Architecture, A'18, AIA 2018, AEC Next

Architects, we know how busy you are, so we want to help you be more efficient by helping you switch from SketchUp to Vectorworks. Read More

Topics: 3D Modeling with Vectorworks, Vectorworks, 2D workflows, BIM model, Workflow Wednesday, switching from sketchup to vectorworks, 2D drawings

In the UK, designing a Paragraph 55 project can be difficult, but getting permission to produce it is next to impossible. Recently, award-winning architectural practice (and Vectorworks user) Squirrel Design made the impossible possible with not one, but two Para 55 projects: The Nimbus in Cornwall, England and Hux Shard in Devon, England. These projects have set this father-and-son firm apart from the rest. Read More

Topics: 3D Modeling in Vectorworks, Jonathan Reeves, Darrell Willcocks, Dartmoor National Park, Atrium Studio School, Cornwall, England, Devon, England, Squirrel Design, Paragraph 55, Nimbus, Hux Shard, Michael O’Connor, Alex O’Connor, JR Architecture Ltd, UK’s National Planning Policy Framework, Design Review Panel

At Vectorworks, we believe in taking time to give back to the communities we call home. Our community service program is structured to do this, both here and in the UK. Read More

Topics: Adopt-A-Road program, NALP, Renewal and Remembrance, Arlington National Cemetery, community service, Bridges to Housing Stability, Earth Day Cleanup, US Vectorworks Employees, Meals on Wheels, DIY SOS, Kristin Bailey, BBC, UK Vectorworks Employees, Amisha Carribon, Chiffonia Lloyd