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Vectorworks 2025

A SIGHT TO BEHOLD AT EVERY DESIGN PHASE

WHAT'S NEW

Update 4

The latest in Vectorworks 2025 is here with Update 4. Install the update now to unlock enhanced mobile capabilities, AI-powered visualization, and streamlined collaboration tools.

Nomad iOS App

Dive into the new and improved Nomad iOS app, featuring a sleek and intuitive interface to speed up your workflows. Review and markup documents on the go, keep projects moving with Apple’s LiDAR-based Reality Capture for precise object scanning, and harness guest mode to easily share files with external collaborators. Watch Video

Interface

Enjoy a fresh, modern mobile experience that’s aligned with the Vectorworks desktop app. Filter files by media type, save to desired folders, and work faster with an easy-to-use interface.

Object Capture

Experience detailed object scanning powered by Apple Reality Capture on LiDAR-compatible devices. Capture textured objects in any space to add more precision and realism to your projects.

Document Reviewer

Take collaboration to the next level, all on your iOS device. View, measure, and markup projects remotely and even view documents offline—letting you work anytime, anywhere.

AI Visualizer

Refine and customize your AI-generated images with powerful new tools. Make precise edits with inpainting, apply custom styles with image style transfer, and achieve high-definition results with enhanced detail creation. You can also adjust aspect ratios and easily integrate textures, fills, and props into your designs—saving time and bringing more efficiency to your everyday design process. Watch Video

Braceworks Chord Loading

Reduce guesswork with detailed visualization of rotational forces. Chord loading calculations empower you with precise rotational force analysis of individual truss chords, ensuring safer and more stable structures. Easily display the direction of rotation force and value with the Tilting Arrow, and use customized thresholds and chord-based reporting to maintain unparalleled control and clarity.

Vectorworks Odyssey Meta Quest Link

Use the desktop Odyssey app to bring high-quality graphics to your Vectorworks VR experience, including shadows, lighting control, and ambient occlusion for 3D models. By leveraging Windows computing power via the Meta Quest Link, you can explore larger, complex models with improved realism and performance—elevating your workflows and presentations.

3D Dragger Scaling

With the 3D Dragger Scaling Mode, you can directly resize 2D and 3D objects in your designs. Use live, shaded previews to modify objects interactively—helping you stay immersed in your designs and see predictable “what you see is what you get” results throughout your design process.

PDF Page Object Scaling

Effortlessly control the size of imported PDF objects with the Object Info Palette. Manage horizontal and vertical scales, adjust rotation, and use the Lock Proportions checkbox for easy resizing. You can also instantly revert to original PDF dimensions as needed, helping you maintain the integrity of your designs.

Data Visualization

Choose specific color palettes for auto-coloring, select your desired data visualization during viewport creation, and easily purge unused values during setup. For enhanced control, combine class overrides with your data visualization settings to create visually engaging and informative presentations for your clients.

Class and Layer Search Options

Enhance your workflows with more search terms for classes and layers. Go beyond basic “is” and “is not” operators with options like “Starts with,” “Ends with,” and “Contains.” This flexibility streamlines custom searches in the Navigation Palette or Data Visualization, allowing you to quickly identify and group similar classes and layers together.

Class Import Visibility

Save time with simplified class visibility management. Set the visibility of newly imported classes, controlling how they appear in existing Viewports, Saved Views, and Graphics Legends from the start. Enjoy a streamlined workflow that ensures your designs are always presented accurately and efficiently.

Marionette

Expand your design capabilities with Marionette graphical scripting nodes that handle tasks like symbol conversion, polygon division, and file, record, and resource selection. This broader functionality allows you to tailor Vectorworks to your specific needs, adding more value and versatility to your customization projects.

Revit Export Native Objects

Optimize your workflows by translating Vectorworks-native objects into Revit-native objects. Easily generate Revit Families from your symbols, creating instances instead of copies. Use Revit Export to export native walls, slabs, doors, windows, and extrudes with textures intact—ensuring high information integrity and smoother collaboration.

DWG/DXF Image Support

Unlock effortless compliance with workflows that eliminate extraneous reference files and make it easy to meet regulatory standards. Seamlessly embed images and OLE objects within exported and imported .DWG and .DXF files—ensuring full integration of all resources into a single file so you can meet archival requirements.

Distributor Editing

Simplify electrical connections with an intuitive interface for distributor editing. Select multiple inputs and outputs, instantly view what’s connected, and remove all connections as needed. Dropdowns now stay open until closed, showing up-to-date values in the Object Info Palette so you can manage connections and gain quick insights at-a-glance.

Hoist Insertion

Speed up your workflows with more efficient hoist insertion. With a single click, you can insert hoists with no rotation or distribute them evenly along a line. With the freedom to choose the method that suits your project best, you’ll be able to work smarter, save time, and focus on creating more impactful designs regardless of complexity.

Spotlight Labeling

Streamline label creation by generating labels directly from any single worksheet in Spotlight. Create labels for all relevant items without needing to switch between different programs or external tools—reducing complexity, enhancing your productivity, and saving valuable time in your design process.

Cable Tools Multi-Circuiting

Manage cable workflows effortlessly with intuitive tools for daisy chaining and twofer insertion. Specialized auto-numbering and modifiers streamline setup, while automatic breaker documentation and power calculations ensure accuracy. Deliver precise, professional results for any lighting design project while reducing errors.

CORE TECHNOLOGY

Open a whole new world of visual understanding and communication throughout your design process. Find new workflows that will change the way you work with collaborators, saving you time in every phase of design.

Object Level Visibility

Show, ghost, hide, or isolate specific objects with individual visibility control. Navigate to specific parts of your model by isolating objects and create custom drawings or viewports to clearly communicate your design intent. Apply object visibility directly within your design layer or save it to viewports and data visualizations. Find fast, flexible workflows, while also working harmoniously with Class and Layer visibilities. Watch Video

Two-Point Perspective

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. Watch Video

Onscreen View Control

Discover one-click navigation that allows for easy, instant access to all views of your model and interactive model orbiting with click-dragging. The optional display of XYZ axes, compass direction, and working planes help you effortlessly orient and navigate your model. Easily switch it off with a popover (but you won’t want to). Watch Video

Revit Collaboration

Conveniently process your Revit file exports in the Vectorworks cloud so you can continue to design uninterrupted. Make life simpler by scheduling automated exports to be carried out in the background. Save time and ensure consistency when importing Revit files with predefined settings which can be further customized and saved.

Project Sharing

Simplify your collaboration with straightforward setup options for Vectorworks Project Sharing — choose whether you want to use cloud-, network-, or server-based sharing and begin your work. Shared project files can be worked on and stored on any cloud service and backups are automatically saved as offline files for your convenience.

DXF/DWG Collaboration

Save time with continuously high-quality DXF/DWG collaboration bringing you detailed and flexible control of both incoming and outgoing file structure and graphics to achieve accurate delivery the first time, every time.

Migration Manager

Make a smooth transition between Vectorworks versions with advanced options in the Migration Manager. Custom settings can be converted from up to five previous versions, saving you time each time you upgrade.

Data Tags

See the Vectorworks data difference with Data Tags that recognize both objects and object sub-parts. Choose from clockwise or counterclockwise auto-numbering options and define dynamic text with worksheet-style formulas. Meet exact international annotation and dimension standards by fine-tuning text layout down to the superscript level.

Dimension Unit Settings

Find freedom and flexibility in the ability to set Custom Unit settings, including bespoke units, unit marks, rounding style, and rounding precision. Achieve drawing compliance in a wide variety of scenarios, for individual dimensions as desired or as required by local jurisdictions. And easily transfer Custom Unit settings between documents.

Hidden Line Render

The Clip Cube feature supports Hidden Line, Dashed Hidden Line, and Polygon render modes in both design layers and viewports, giving you clear visualization with grayed layers and classes. These advanced visualization abilities, along with Renderworks and Shaded Render modes, help you clearly communicate your design intent through refined drawings.

Workspace Editor

Customize and share workspaces between teammates within an easy, intuitive interface. You’ll find superior functionalities like the ability to select multiple tools and commands, drag-and-drop capabilities, a search bar, and a quick way to change keyboard shortcuts, all designed to save you time when creating and managing workspaces.

Join a Vectorworks Coffee Break

Sharpen your skills without ever leaving your desk — check out our short, casual online information sessions. It’s your opportunity to learn about what’s new in Vectorworks 2025 or to chat with Vectorworks trainers.

ARCHITECTURE

Discover the flexibility you need to bring your best ideas to life — upgrade your BIM workflow with features that will help you reduce errors in your modeling and documentation processes to make it easier to comply with standards.

Countertops

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

Room Finishes

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 customizable project finishes and data visualization to help you streamline reporting, leaving you the time to focus on customizing your space. Watch Video

BIM Construction Classification

Assign classifications to Vectorworks objects and sub-parts and manage them centrally with a rules-and-criteria-based system that is easy to follow. Save time and reduce risk for errors with automated application of local and national classification standards in a BIM collaboration and specification writing workflow. Watch Video

Bluebeam Connection

Streamline collaboration by connecting Vectorworks to Bluebeam Cloud. With Bluebeam Connection, you can create and manage Bluebeam Studio sessions directly in Vectorworks. Keep projects and stakeholders in perfect alignment—easily sync PDF markups and other submittals to your Vectorworks files, manage BCF issues, and track changes efficiently at every phase. Watch Video

LANDSCAPE

Unearth features that make it fast and easy to adopt BIM into your workflow. With tools created to make it easier to comply with industry standards, you’ll save time when designing and documenting your projects.

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. Watch Video

Survey Point

Quickly and easily establish a geographic survey or reference point with a single operation, saving you time and avoiding complications among collaborators. Perfect for both new and existing projects, place a survey point anywhere in the document to specify coordinates, angles to true north, and elevation information in both 2D and 3D. Watch Video

Landscape Areas

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

Planar Pad Slope Control

Speed up your grading process by intuitively adding and editing slopes on planar pad site modifiers. With options to set grade changes by slope or using beginning and end elevations, you’ll ensure flawless model accuracy. Built-in annotations for your planar pad site modifier slopes mean less time labeling, verifying, and editing spot elevations.

Hardscapes

Easily specify visual attributes, slope specifications, and sustainability-driven design settings, such as permeability and solar reflectance. Hardscape settings are more consistent with other smart objects, making it easier to use and giving you the ability to define more information and make smarter design choices.

ENTERTAINMENT

Discover the latest updates designed directly from your feedback. Several features in the latest version were implemented specifically to address your most-used entertainment industry tools, evolving the software to meet your needs. Even better, previsualization has found a home directly inside Vectorworks with Showcase, so you can iterate on your ideas without leaving the application.

Showcase Previz

Real-time previsualization 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 previsualization. Watch Video

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. Watch Video

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.

Schematic Views

Creating responsive Schematic Views is possible at any stage of your design workflow. Automatically push changes between the Schematic View and your 3D model without having to move between them, ensuring that updates occur quickly and seamlessly without additional adjustments from you.

Power Schematics

Create Power Schematics the way you want with customizable layouts that make it easier to meet your project’s needs. Decide what each includes and where it's created in your file, then edit the schematic layout while maintaining your current layout when updated. Display your power calculations or create reports to document your power plan.

Cable Tools

Your cable planning process is fast and intuitive with an easy cable editing and configuration workflow with a dialog that allows you to configure groups of selected cables and cable sections. Save time with more options and data available when generating reports. And reduce risk of errors with clearer and more consistent error messages.

Event and AV Tools

Stay on the cutting edge of productivity with Audio, Video, and Staging Tools as well as Soft Goods and Rope and Stanchion, all designed to bring a high level of detail to your design without sacrificing any details. More design options ensure your ability to display a wide variety of data and to document that data as accurately as possible.

ConnectCAD Continuous Error Checking

The ConnectCAD Status palette scans your document in real time, highlighting potential mistakes before they become issues. Spend less time tracing potential errors and view potential issues in a table format, giving you a clear, easy-to-follow process for remedying issues as they arise.

Conventional Fixture Focusing

Set up and focus your lighting rig before you even step foot into a venue. With convenient Focus, Pan, Tilt, and Shutter controls in the Object Info Palette, you can fine tune your conventional fixtures with graphical sliders giving you superior control and better visual feedback while using Shaded Render mode.

Bridle Data Tags

Quick access to all bridle-related settings in a single location streamlines your bridle drawing workflow, helping you focus on your design. Automatically tag important elements of your bridles while drawing and take advantage of specialized Data Tags for all elements of your bridles to support preparing the documentation your crew needs.

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CLOUD

Take your designs on the go to keep your projects moving. See how this version makes it easier for you and your collaborators to stay on top of project changes.

Vectorworks Cloud Document Reviewer

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. Watch Video