Vectorworks Spotlight Integrations

The Braceworks® add-on module for Vectorworks Spotlight provides design, production, and rigging professionals with an easy way to gauge the performance of temporary structures under load. This one-of-a-kind module helps ensure safety and compliance with engineering codes and standards, creating a completely integrated modeling, analysis, and documentation process in one interface. Regulatory requirements, such as the Eurocodes, and increasing requirements from venues, municipalities, and building owners, are making it necessary for event design, A/V, and rigging companies to produce load and structure calculations for sign off by structural engineers. Conduct static analyses and FEM analysis with results that display graphically on the model for easy reference. Automatically generate detailed calculation reports.

ConnectCAD is built on Vectorworks Spotlight, you can take advantage of the flexible and robust design and documentation capabilities that make Spotlight the industry standard. With an extensive manufacturer library and a customizable 2D/3D hybrid environment, rest assured you have everything you need to design with confidence. Use ConnectCAD to work seamlessly not only with the rest of your team, but with event planners and other project stakeholders as well. Collaboration has never been easier.

This all-in-one program will transform your design, presentation, irrigation, and documentation workflows. Unlike other software, Vectorworks has the flexibility to support your entire project from beginning to end, or anywhere in the process — with tools created specifically for you as a landscape professional. With Vectorworks Landmark’s BIM capabilities, they are. That means a change in one place is reflected everywhere. So, as changes occur, you can spend more time designing and less time manually updating drawings. The process of Building Information Modeling gives you the power to optimize your designs. Automatically generate schedules and reports. Calculate construction costs and material takeoffs. Analyze terrain for cut/fill, slope, and drainage. Evaluate water budgets and track sustainability goals, like leed and sites projects.

A pioneer in architectural visualization and compatible with all the 3D modeling software on the market, Artlantis is the easiest and fastest solution for creating photorealistic renderings and animations. Handling DXF, DWG, OBJ, FBX and 3DS formats, and from now on IFC format, Artlantis is compatible with almost all 3D modelers currently on the market. This IFC import capability allows the user to receive a rich BIM data scene from a colleague using another modeler and to make any structural modifications to it in his daily work tool. Specific plug-ins for Archicad, Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, Autodesk Revit, SketchUp and Arc + allow exports to Artlantis. Artlantis 2021 enters the world of Open BIM! Known and recognized for its almost universal accounting, Artlantis 21 now imports the IFC format. This new performance, concerning the model’s geometry only, allows the Artlantis user to receive any model from an interlocutor using a modeler other than their own.

The seamless integration between Vectorworks Spotlight and Vision allows you to create design documents, automate paperwork, and visualize your design in rendered 3D views. When you’re done, easily send fixture and model information directly to Vision to previsualize, program, and cue your show. Vision puts the power to previsualize and cue your show at your fingertips. Available for both Mac and PC operating systems, this intuitive software works with your console and equips you to design creatively and efficiently. You will save time and money by previsualizing what your rig can do without needing to travel to the venue or having your crew stand by. Go beyond the ordinary with flexible Vision tools that allow you to customize colors, gobos, lenses, shutters, or any other fixture parameter. Tap into comprehensive fixture libraries that equip you to work more effectively than ever.

With more support for common file formats than any other BIM solution, Vectorworks Architect can pull together all necessary information to start your project, providing everything you need for conceptual design, site planning, and analysis all in one interface. Quickly confirm design intent while transitioning from massing models to concept models. BIM software isn’t exactly known for promoting creative expression. But Vectorworks is different. We allow you to freely sketch, model, and document your design ideas with precision drafting capabilities and the most flexible 3D modeling engine available, powered by SIEMENS Parasolid. So you’re not limited by presets and strict parameters — you have the flexibility you need to design anything you can imagine. Getting the most out of the “I” in Building Information Modeling is essential for optimizing your designs.

The status quo of providing property tours to potential clients has many limitations; especially now. The common practice of on-site tours can be inconvenient for out-of-towners. And technology solutions like FaceTime, don't provide an experience that does the property justice. Architects have the amazing ability of visually articulating their imagination. However, visually communicating a 3D space with a 2D image is still challenging for many people. Even with advanced (and expensive) static renderings or 3D fly-throughs, customers have difficulty understanding the size and flow of a space. Buyers of new or existing properties lack the ability to customize a space before even lifting a brush or hammer. Even with a new build, visualizing the finished product with a mood board is still a best guess. Builders face the challenge of selling a vision. A vision that has many variables including house models, elevations, lot locations, interior amenities, and more.