Vectorworks 2025

VECTORWORKS
2025

A SIGHT TO BEHOLD AT
EVERY DESIGN PHASE

KEY TECHNOLOGY

Unlock a new level of visual clarity and communication throughout your
design journey. Discover innovative workflows that will revolutionize
collaboration, helping you save time at every stage of the design process.

Object Level Visibility

Gain precise control over individual object visibility with options to show, ghost, hide, or isolate specific
elements. Easily navigate your model by isolating objects and create custom drawings or viewports to clearly
express your design intent. Manage visibility directly on design layers or save it to viewports and data
visualizations, all while maintaining compatibility with Class and Layer settings.

Two-Point Perspective

Effortlessly create traditional architectural compositions using the Two-point Perspective mode. Activate with a single click, working within design layers or saved views and sheet viewports. Once enabled, it remains active even when adjusting views.

Onscreen View Control

Enjoy instant, one-click navigation to all model views, with interactive orbiting via click-dragging. Optional displays for XYZ axes, compass direction, and working planes make orientation simple. Easily toggle it off with a popover—though you’ll likely keep it on.

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Revit Collaboration

Streamline your workflow by processing Revit exports in the Vectorworks cloud, allowing you to design without interruption. Schedule automated background exports and import Revit files with customizable, pre-set configurations for consistency.

Project Sharing

Simplify collaboration with easy setup options for Project Sharing. Choose cloud, network, or server-based sharing to start working. Shared files can be stored on a cloud service, with automatic offline backups for convenience.

DXF/DWG Collaboration

Save time with high-quality DXF/DWG collaboration, offering detailed control over file structure and graphics. Ensure accurate delivery every time with flexible management of both incoming and outgoing files.

Migration Manager

Seamlessly transition between Vectorworks versions using the advanced options of the Migration Manager. Customize settings from up to five previous versions, ensuring time savings with each upgrade.

Data Tags

Experience the Vectorworks difference with Data Tags, which can identify both objects and their sub-parts. Choose auto-numbering options in either clockwise or counterclockwise directions, and define dynamic text using worksheet-like formulas. Adjust text layout to meet precise international annotation and dimension standards, down to the superscript level.

Dimension Unit Settings

Enjoy the flexibility to customize unit settings, including personalized units, unit markers, rounding styles, and rounding precision. This allows you to meet drawing requirements across various scenarios or comply with local regulations. Easily transfer these custom settings across documents.

Hidden Line Render

The Clip Cube feature now supports Hidden Line, Dashed Hidden Line, and Polygon render modes in both design layers and viewports, offering clear visualization with grayed-out layers and classes. Enhanced visualization options, including Renderworks and Shaded Render modes, allow for precise communication of design intent through refined drawings.

Workspace Editor

Tailor and share workspaces among team members through an intuitive interface. With functionalities like multi-tool and command selection, drag-and-drop capabilities, a search bar, and quick keyboard shortcut adjustments, you’ll save time managing and creating workspaces.

ARCHITECTURE

Discover the flexibility you need to bring your most creative ideas to life by
upgrading your BIM workflow. With enhanced features that minimize modeling
and documentation errors, you'll find it easier to meet compliance standards.

Countertops

Create detailed countertops with a balance of automation and customization, managing styles, overhangs,
and backsplashes across projects. Efficient modeling and automatic hole cuts free you from manual
processes, allowing more time for creative design.

Room Finishes

Apply surface finishes to multiple walls in one step, then manage, annotate, and generate reports with customizable data visualization, streamlining documentation so you can focus on design.

BIM Construction Classification

Assign classifications to Vectorworks objects and sub-parts with a centralized, rules-based system. Save time and reduce errors by automating the application of local and national classification standards in BIM workflows.

LANDSCAPE

Explore tools that simplify the integration of BIM into your process. Designed to
streamline your compliance with industry standards, these tools save you
valuable time in both design and documentation phases.

Curbs, Edging
and Borders

Design accurate curbs, borders, and edging with profile extrudes or individual units. Integrate these elements
seamlessly with hardscapes and landscape areas, and easily manipulate terrain with defined modifier points.
Consistent design styles save you time and reduce revisions.

Survey Point

Establish a geographic survey or reference point quickly with a single operation, specifying coordinates, angles to true north, and elevation in 2D and 3D, making collaboration smoother.

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Landscape Areas

Save time with intuitive style and instance settings for Landscape Areas, supporting automated documentation and labeling. Address sustainability goals like erosion control, urban heat island mitigation, and biodiversity enhancement.

Hardscapes

Specify visual attributes, slope, and sustainability settings like permeability and solar reflectance. Consistent with other smart objects, Hardscape settings help you make informed design choices with ease.

Planar Pad Slope Control

Accelerate grading by adding and editing slopes on planar pad site modifiers. Set grade changes by slope or by elevation, ensuring model accuracy with built-in annotations that save time on labeling and verification.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Many of the new features were developed to enhance the entertainment industry's most-used tools, adapting the software to meet your evolving needs. Plus, the new Showcase feature enables previsualization directly within Vectorworks, allowing you to refine your ideas without leaving the application.

Showcase Previz

Experience real-time previsualization directly in Vectorworks, with live lighting control and the ability to test your show without leaving the model. Experiment, edit, and adjust to perfection based on your previsualization.

GDTF File Mapping

Maintain accuracy with GDTF Mapping, which updates fixture information automatically. Download, import, and store GDTF files with one action, ensuring all profiles are current.

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Schematic Views

Create responsive Schematic Views at any design stage. Automatically synchronize changes between the Schematic View and your 3D model, ensuring quick, seamless updates without extra adjustments.

Power Schematics

Customize Power Schematics layouts to meet your project's needs, allowing for easy editing while maintaining your original layout. Display power calculations or generate reports to document your power plan accurately.

Truss and Lights
Snapping and Insertion

Control lighting system assembly with truss corner alignment and light fixture snapping. Customize fixture hanging angles and save time by reducing manual work, ensuring a more accurate model and better documentation.

ConnectCAD Continuous Error Checking

Detect potential issues in real time with the Continuous Error Checking web palette. View errors in a clear, easy-to-follow table format, reducing the time spent on troubleshooting.

Cable Tools

Streamline cable planning with an intuitive workflow for editing and configuring cables. Generate reports faster with more options and data, and reduce errors with clearer, more consistent messaging.

Events and AV Tools

Stay at the forefront of productivity with enhanced Audio, Video, and Staging Tools, along with Soft Goods and Rope and Stanchion. These tools bring detailed designs to life while ensuring data accuracy and comprehensive documentation.

Conventional Fixture Focusing

Configure and adjust your lighting setup before you even arrive at the venue. Using the Object Info Palette, you can control Focus, Pan, Tilt, and Shutter settings with graphical sliders, giving you precise control and better visual feedback in Shaded Render mode.

Bridle Data Tags

Streamline your bridle drawing process with quick access to all bridle-related settings in one place. Automatically tag key elements as you work and take advantage of dedicated Data Tags to generate the documentation your crew needs efficiently.

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CLOUD

Stay mobile with your designs and keep projects on track from anywhere. This version enhances collaboration by making it easier for you and your team to manage project changes on the go.

Vectorworks Cloud Document Reviewer

Allow project participants to view and comment on your documents from any device with a web browser, accelerating project feedback. Share drawings and worksheets, letting collaborators access object specifications and add comments directly within Vectorworks, streamlining your review process. Share updated documents quickly and easily.