Now that you’re convinced that BIM is the way to go, let’s talk about how to set up your model so you get predictable results. If you’d like to find out how to deal with levels, layers, and stories, join this hands-on class with Vectorworks Architect Product Specialist Wes Gardner. In this session, Wes will outline how to set up these key elements and discuss how they interface with wall and slab styles, resulting in a complete building model.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn what levels, layers, and stories are.
2. Examine how to set up a project to achieve predictable results.
3. Discover how to build and modify a wall style.
4. Investigate how walls, slabs, and roofs interact with each other.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

This presentation, with product specialist Vickie Claiborne, highlights techniques for using Vectorworks in the creative process, including conceptual designs through finished plots, the practical workflow using Vectorworks tools to export patch to the GrandMA2 console and export reports to Lightwright, and the previsualization workflow, including preparing and exporting a VWX drawing for use in a visualization program such as Vision.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn the best techniques for using Vectorworks in the creative process, including conceptual designs through finished plots.
2. Export lighting patch information to the GrandMA2 console.
3. Utilize instrument data exchange with Lightwright.
4. Optimize, prepare, and export a VWX drawing for use in a visualization program such as Vision.

Presentation Suited For:

• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

In this course, Senior Entertainment Product Specialist Jim Woodward and User Experience Specialist Edward Joseph will walk through how to streamline your Spotlight to Vision export process, explore the tools and features included in Vision software, and discuss how to connect your files to common lighting consoles.

Objectives:

1. Optimize a Vectorworks Spotlight light plot for previsualization.
2. Clarify how to export a Vectorworks Spotlight file into Vision software.
3. Investigate the features available in Vision software.
4. See how to connect a Vision file to common lighting consoles.

Presentation Suited For:

• Entertainment Designers

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Working with and from provided file(s), attendees will create a simple set with complex details that apply to theatre, film, television, and experiential design. Emmy award-winner Kevin Lee Allen will begin with an initial design idea and go through the design and documentation process. Modeling, texturing, organization, and tool usage (including possibly unexpected uses) will be covered, as well as rendering for presentation and creating design documentation for construction.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn to use the wall styles and architectural tools.
2. Discover layer and class organization for the design process.
3. Learn to use the notes database.
4. Discover beneficial modeling techniques.

Presentation Suited For:

• Event Planners
• Set Designers
• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level: Intermediate

As professionals focused on improving the landscape, we design to meet the needs of our clients and the environment. In doing so, we must select appropriate plants available for the region that are best suited for the climate. Likewise, we take pride in creating a signature graphic style that allows us to tell a story to our clients, allied professionals, and sometimes, even in publications. In this hands-on session, join Jane Beggs-Joles as she discusses what to look for when selecting plants and their providers to develop a solid plant palette, and Tony Kostreski, ASLA, as he demonstrates how to create custom plant libraries.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn and incorporate the principles used in developing a better plant palette.
2. Understand what your nursery grower can do for you and how to verify availability and plant performance data from preferred plant providers.
3. Become proficient in adding plant data to generic plant style objects within Vectorworks Landmark.
4. Master how to create custom plant symbol libraries from the new plant palette.

Presentation Suited For:

• Landscape Architects
• Landscape Designers

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

In this session, Lighting Designer Michael Klaers and Principal Patrick Stanford will cover different uses for worksheets; the difference between spreadsheet cells and database rows, records, and fields and how they can be used in worksheets and databases; entering and editing formulas; creating and reusing worksheets; and using the create report command to generate a worksheet with a database. This hands-on class is intended for users with basic experience using Vectorworks worksheets or another spreadsheet program.

Learning Objectives:

1. Create a basic worksheet.
2. Enter text and formulas and format cells.
3. Edit a worksheet from another user.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Interior Architects
• Landscape Architects
• Event Planners
• Set Designers
• Entertainment Designers
• Landscape Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level: Beginner

This session with Vectorworks User Experience Manager Jim Wilson has a focus on rendering techniques that pertain to theater and concert venues. Jim will discuss the ins and outs of lit fog, dramatic light effects, proper handling of darkness, edge lighting, and much more. Attendees will not only receive technical knowledge on how to accomplish interior, low-light renderings and how to create commonly used stage elements, but will also receive a demonstration file with included resources that they can use or modify as they wish for future projects.

Note: This lecture assumes a basic knowledge of rendering styles, use of light objects, and applying textures.

Presentation Suited For:

• Entertainment Designers

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

When it’s time to transform an idea into a digital 3D form, it all comes down to understanding the tools that you use. There are multiple ways to achieve the same shape, so determining best practices with 3D modeling tools can vary based on your design intent, skill level, and the complexity of your project. Join Luis M. Ruiz, International Assoc. AIA, as he explores the various tool sets and features that enable custom modeling for a variety of project types. This beginner class will focus on general navigation, solid modeling, and basic editing behaviors in Vectorworks.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the different tool and feature sets available for effective 3D modeling.
2. Discover effective workflows for executing concepts in 3D, both individually and in terms of a larger project.
3. Observe the basic solids modeling operations and capabilities.
4. Demonstrate learned techniques in a hands-on training session.

Presentation Suited For:

• All Industries

Skill Level: Beginners

In complex design processes with a growing number of rules and regulations, the architects at GASA, one of Norway's leading firms for sustainable architecture, believe it’s important to stay focused on the core of their profession: designing inspiring and well-functioning environments for everyday life. So, they ask themselves: how can we reach the level of complexity it takes to design and develop a large, public school as a BIM project in the most simple and efficient way, but still meet all the strict requirements? How can we make do with fewer lines, layers, and classes? How can we get less overall clutter to achieve efficient files with simpler IFC objects? And what tools do you really need to get the job done? Find out how the team at GASA creates simple and robust concepts with as few elements as possible.

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate how to refine a workspace so you can focus on the design process.
2. Shed light on which tools are necessary and which you can hide.
3. Learn how to simplify templates to avoid gigantic, overloaded files.
4. Examine one or two large ongoing school projects, and learn how the project team streamlines the workflow in different phases to save time.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Interior Architects
• Landscape Architects

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced

In this session, production designer and lighting director Dan Reed will discuss his 20-year history of CAD support for his own shows as well as his tenure with multi-Emmy award winning lighting designers Bob Dickinson and Bob Barnhart of Full Flood Inc. and Joshua Hutchings of Illumination Advocates. Dan will review his CAD portfolio of award shows and live production events and discuss the important role Vectorworks plays in unifying the torrent of files and formats that come flying in during a live production.

Learning Objectives:

1. Examine the separate roles that different Spotlight and Renderworks tools and previsualization programs like Vision play in real-world production environments.
2. Learn how green screen techniques can be prepared from within Vectorworks to produce great pixel mapping and video presentations.
3. Learn how to modify the existing Spotlight libraries and use non-Spotlight lighting tools, such as the new 4K export tool, to improve renderings and create great data integrated animation.
4. Understand how Vectorworks can fit in an all AutoCAD environment, using the attraction design for IMG Worlds of Adventure in Dubai as a case study example.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Event Planners
• Set Designers
• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

With the introduction of new irrigation tools in 2017, Vectorworks created an entirely new workflow to better serve landscape professionals who design irrigation systems. Bryan Goff of Grey Leaf Design was one of the early adopters of these new tools and will help guide attendees through the tools and associated efficiencies. Bryan will elaborate on general irrigation efficiencies and present a general workflow that designers can build from with an emphasis on EPA WaterSense. Eric Berg, senior associate at Pacific Coast Land Design, will illustrate how landscape architecture firms and irrigation designers can use the irrigation tools and BIM capabilities of Vectorworks to help meet growing regulatory demands, with an emphasis on California’s MWELO requirements in designing water efficient irrigation systems. In aggregate, this presentation will navigate through the irrigation design tools and workflows Vectorworks offers that empower designers to design more efficient irrigation systems. This will include a general file takeaway, giving attendees a head start in their irrigation design workflows.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover a brief overview of Vectorworks’ suite of tools available for irrigation design.
2. Learn the best practices and workflows for the Vectorworks irrigation tool suite and how to create a basic irrigation design drawing.
3. Learn how to generate reports and schedules from irrigation tools and components.
4. Understand how to create custom workflows to meet and document specific regulatory requirements such as EPA WaterSense, CA MWELO, and/or sustainable design targets, such as LEED/SITES.

Presentation Suited For:

• Landscape Architects
• Landscape Designers
• Irrigation Designers

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced

When learning to use Vectorworks, or any software for that matter, we are likely to focus on learning how to use just what we need to complete a project. Over time, we may believe we know how to use the application to its fullest extent but have only scratched the surface of what is possible. In this session, the Vectorworks training team will guide you through finding those gems (tools/commands) that will make your design process more efficient. They will also change your perspective on how and when to use certain Vectorworks features that you may already use on regular basis.

Best Suited For:

• All Industries

Skill Level: Basic/Intermediate

Adopting BIM workflows means gaining efficiency through automation of change management. Parametric objects make the management of resources and their data much easier and accessible. In this course, Jonathan Reeves, director of Jonathan Reeves Architecture, will cover the main parametric building objects in Vectorworks Architect and how styles of these objects can be used for better change management.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover basic building objects and their parametric properties.
2. Understand how to manage wall systems, floor systems, and roof systems with styles.
3. Discover “PIO” object styles and how they differ from other BIM objects.
4. Learn how to access manufacturer catalogs for greater detail in your BIM models.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Interior Architects

Skill Level: Intermediate

When it’s time to transform an idea into a digital 3D form, it all comes down to understanding the tools that you use. This advanced class will help you determine best practices for 3D modeling and will introduce you to more complex modeling capabilities in Vectorworks. Join Luis M. Ruiz, Int. Assoc. AIA, as he explores the advanced tool sets and features that enable custom modeling for a variety of project types. Part 2 of this class will focus on the deform tool, NURBS curves and surfaces, and subdivision modeling.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the effective use of NURBS surfaces and subdivision modeling.
2. Discover effective workflows for executing concepts in 3D, both individually and in terms of a larger project.
3. Observe 3D modeling best practices in action by examining real-world examples.
4. Demonstrate learned techniques in a hands-on training session.

Presentation Suited For:

• All Industries

Skill Level: Advanced

Still verbally describing how light will respond in a theatrical environment? Still figuring out photometries the oldfashion way? How about using Spotlight as a "one stop shopping" resource? This presentation by lighting and scenicdesigner Stephen Jones will showcase how Spotlight can be used to create 3D lighting plots that can be used for both thecreative and technical sides of the entertainment industry.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how to produce 3D drafting of lighting plots.
2. Learn how to use photometrics to plan theatrical lighting.
3. Learn the power of Spotlight as a pre-visualization tool.
4. Learn short cuts to save time.

Presentation Suited For:

• Lighting Designers

Skill Level:Intermediate

In this two-hour, hands-on training with Vectorworks Architect Product Specialist Sarah Barrett, attendees will begin to familiarize themselves with some intermediate and advanced uses of Marionette. Attendees will use sample files to integrate into their own designs or to pull apart and learn from. These sample files will include networks that automate tedious tasks and create parametric geometry. The second hour of training will be an open workshop to work on building a sample network or your own project with the help of a Marionette expert.

Presentation Suited For:

• All Industries

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

The creation and implementation of the new General Device Type Format (GDTF) is a game-changer for designers, programmers, and electricians who use Vectorworks in their workflows. By adding GDTF data to the plot, information (such as type, mode, optional features, etc.) about all types of devices (lighting, video, pyro, special effects, lasers, etc.) can be easily shared between the plot, previsualization programs, and consoles.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how to read a GDTF file.
2. Add GDTF information to light plots.
3. Streamline converting a plot to previz.
4. Streamline patching a console from a plot.

Presentation Suited For:

• Event Planners
• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Creating and modeling a site's terrain with the Vectorworks site model continues to be an important part of a designer's workflow in 2D/3D site planning. Though various data formats may help inform the existing surface, added features to the site model enable designers to have more control over how that surface is represented. This session will demonstrate various traditional and non-traditional site modification processes, enabling attendees to achieve better land sculpting for drainage, berming, and retaining features.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the opportunities to create a site model from various source data formats.
2. Recognize advances in the Vectorworks site model and site modifiers.
3. Utilize site model modifying techniques such as swales, contoured berms, and retaining edges.
4. Explore non-traditional modification methods, such as 3D bending polygons and contour editing.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Landscape Architects
• Landscape Designers

Skill Level:Intermediate/Advanced

The space object can do a lot more than just create a room label. In this hands-on training, Vectorworks Architect Product Specialist Luc Lefebvre will demonstrate all the cool things you can do with this object.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the benefits of using the space object.
2. Understand the type of data that can be assigned in a space object and for what use.
3. Learn how to create programming diagrams and space planning tools.
4. Learn how the space object is used in a design and BIM workflow from LOD 100 to
5. LOD 300.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Eager to get an in-depth look at all the new and upgraded features in Vectorworks 2019? Vectorworks Trainer Michael Groves will share information about what you can do with the latest release of the software during the Design Summit. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to discover what’s new in Vectorworks 2019.

Presentation Suited For:

• All Industries

This course with Vectorworks User Experience Manager Jim Wilson will include a tutorial of photorealistic style details with materials such as water, grass, earth, and glass, as well as artistic rendering techniques for white card, line, and sketch rendering styles. Attendees will leave this lecture not only with tips and tricks on creating realistic materials and artistically styled renderings, but also with a number of sample resources that can be modified or used in their own projects.

Note: This lecture assumes a basic knowledge of rendering styles, use of light objects, and applying textures.

Presentation Suited For:

• Landscape Architects
• Architecture

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Spoleto Festival USA, based in Charleston, South Carolina, hosts domestic and international theatrical productions every year. In 17 days, over 250 performances take place throughout the city, but every production has to share its stage with someone else. It is repertory lighting and scenery at its craziest, with rapid-fire changeovers between shows choreographed down to the moment. In this session, Steve Shelley, president of Field Template LLC, will show the processes he used—and would use again today—in Vectorworks software to create the documentation needed to pull off such a combination of complex events.

Learning Objectives:

1. Examine how to create light plots and sections using class and layer hierarchy.
2. Utilize saved views to construct and compare scenic and lighting changes.
3. Recognize how to use viewports to create draft-displaying scenic and lighting changes.
4. Discover how to provide PDF documentation in both imperial and metric scales.

Presentation Suited For:

• Event Planners
• Set Designers
• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level:Intermediate

How do you know when you have made a bad production? James Simpson, lighting visualizer at the Royal Opera House, discusses the benefits of design visualization for producing opera and ballet by improving the efficiency, speed, and quality of the finished production. James will show how the Royal Opera House is using the latest technology, such as virtual and augmented reality, to make visualization more immersive and practical to a design team. He will also explain how new technology could have a significant impact on the way we design for entertainment in the future.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how the Royal Opera House uses visualization to improve the production design process.
2. See how virtual and augmented reality can be used to improve designs.
3. Learn about new technology that will have an impact on design processes in the future.
4. Discover the tools behind good visualization and learn how they fit into the design process.

Presentation Suited For:

• Set Designers
• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced

This session, with Huitt-Zollars vice president and director Todd McCurdy, includes hands-on training with a successful workflow, including a takeaway toolkit to help attendees recreate and modify the workflow for projects. The workflows presented will be data driven but visually engaging, with GIS and/or CAD input, and built-in worksheets.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use data in 2D base files to quickly create 3D mass studies.
2. Calculate areas, uses, and other data in your model and present them in a worksheet.
3. Use classes, layers, and basic tools to create 3D mass studies of the urban environment.
4. Locate elements within the design world and coordinate space to facilitate location in construction.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Landscape Architects

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

In this session, Vectorworks Senior Architect Product Specialist Juan Carlos Fabbiani, AIA, will cover new Vectorworks technologies, including the ins-and-outs of photos to 3D modeling, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), web view, and 360 panoramas. Attendees will learn how these new technologies will help in their day-to-day design practices.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover new technologies in Vectorworks.
2. Learn how new technologies can help your practice/business and why this is important.
3. Learn when and how to use these new technologies.
4. Discover the practical application of these new features.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced

Creating detail drawings of your building is a necessity for construction documentation. In this two-hour, hands-on class, François Lévy, AIA, author and partner of Lévy Kohlhass Architecture, will cover how to create and manage a detail library and how to utilize Vectorworks’ Resource Manager. Attendees will also learn how to generate detail viewports, how to link detail callouts to existing detail drawings, and how to control the level of detail in your objects.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how to create and manage a detail library.
2. Explain how to use Vectorworks’ Resource Manager for library management.
3. Examine tools to generate standard detail drawings and how to customize them.
4. Explore how to control the level of detail of Vectorworks hybrid objects.

When it’s time to transform an idea into a digital 3D form, it all comes down to understanding the tools that you use. This advanced class will help you determine best practices for 3D modeling and will introduce you to more complex modeling capabilities in Vectorworks. Join Luis M. Ruiz, Int. Assoc. AIA, as he explores the advanced tool sets and features that enable custom modeling for a variety of project types. Part 2 of this class will focus on the deform tool, NURBS curves and surfaces, and subdivision modeling.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the effective use of NURBS surfaces and subdivision modeling.
2. Discover effective workflows for executing concepts in 3D, both individually and in terms of a larger project.
3. Observe 3D modeling best practices in action by examining real-world examples.
4. Demonstrate learned techniques in a hands-on training session.

Presentation Suited For:

• All Industries

Skill Level: Advanced

Vectorworks Spotlight and Braceworks are integral to the design and engineering process to create corporate theater events at IMS Technology Services. Join Scott C. Parker, IMS director of lighting (USA829), ETCP certified rigger & electrician, and Vectorworks recognized trainer, to explore methods he and his team use to collaborate in creating the technical drawings required for corporate event production. These same skills are shared equally by theatrical designers and technical personnel. Scott will explore the process of a challenging event that included three extra-wide curved blended screens in a ballroom with multiple soffits of varying heights and a particularly odd layout of overhead rigging points. The solution required editing existing truss symbols and the creation of new custom Braceworks symbols.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover project sharing and/or reference viewports to external documents.
2. Understand Braceworks corner settings: creating custom hinge truss symbols at various angles.
3. Discover how to convert a truss system to a Braceworks-friendly hanging position for lighting, and then how to edit the position.
4. Calculate loads of lighting, video, audio, and curtain objects using Braceworks, and learn how to double check your findings.

Presentation Suited For:

• Event Planners
• Set Designers
• Riggers
• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

In this course, Senior Entertainment Product Specialist Jim Woodward and User Experience Specialist Edward Joseph will walk through how to streamline your Spotlight to Vision export process, explore the tools and features included in Vision software, and discuss how to connect your files to common lighting consoles.

Objectives:

1. Optimize a Vectorworks Spotlight light plot for previsualization.
2. Clarify how to export a Vectorworks Spotlight file into Vision software.
3. Investigate the features available in Vision software.
4. See how to connect a Vision file to common lighting consoles.

Presentation Suited For:

• Entertainment Designers

This presentation will show you how to leverage the power of solar, terrain, building, and landscape object modeling to better analyze site conditions, advise clients, and validate design choices. This training session with principal and landscape designer Danilo Maffei will focus on using site modelling, the heliodon tool, and saved view tools to create useful and compelling reports and exhibits, whether they be for internal use or making presentations to clients.

Learning Objectives:

1. Use the site model tool to create slope and elevation analysis.
2. Use the heliodon tool to create sun/shade studies.
3. Use the saved views tool to create viewshed studies.
4. Use 2D polygons, record formats, and worksheets to analyze and report spatial data.

Presentation Suited For:

• Landscape Architects
• Landscape Designers

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

In this session, Lighting Designer Michael Klaers and Principal Patrick Stanford will cover converting text data to numbers for use in calculations, record and field use in spreadsheets and databases, editing objects on a drawing with worksheets, using multiple record formats in a single database, using scripts to improve database formatting, and an introduction to worksheet scripts. Vectorworks files from different industries will be used as examples. This hands-on class is intended for designers who currently use worksheets but who want to know more about how to improve their skills.

Learning Objectives:

1. Develop a better understanding of the power of worksheets.
2. Manipulate both spreadsheet cells and database cells to extract and edit data in a drawing.
3. Manage parametric objects.
4. Extend the power of worksheets.

Presentation Suited For:

Architects Interior Architects Landscape Architects Event Planners Set Designers Entertainment Designers Landscape Designers Lighting Designers

Skill Level:Advanced

Utilizing a file structure that can be implemented at initial concept and adapt as the architectural process evolves can help streamline the design workflow. Flansburgh Architects, in conjunction with the Vectorworks Architectural Support team, has gone through the steps to create a framework tailored to a variety of project types and phases of design and documentation. Attendees will obtain an understanding of the key elements that were involved in creating the file structure of templates and resources and gain insight into how this process can be adapted to meet their individual needs.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover how to structure an office-standard Resource Manager that allows users to easily access typical project resources.
2. Explore how customized Workspaces can simplify tool sets and menus, allowing for adaption by individual users to suit their needs.
3. Observe how to streamline the file transfer protocol with both the design team and consulting engineers who may use other software packages.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Interior Architects
• Landscape Architects
• Event Planners

Skill Level:Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced

LOD is an acronym for describing the level of development of a digital model, whether it’s a Building Information Model or a more general-use 3D model. In this session, Vectorworks UK Director of Digital Practice Strategy Martyn Horne will explain the concept of LOD and its practical application in Vectorworks. The session will include the definitions as set out in the BIM standards provided by the US, UK, and around the world.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the descriptions of the various LODs.
2. Learn what data and model elements are required for each LOD and how they relate to the detail/information included in a Vectorworks model.
3. Review various BIM planning tools to establish the LOD goals of a project.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Landscape Architects
• Interior Designers
• Manufacturers

Vectorworks Spotlight software is a complete entertainment production package, but not everyone is using it to the fullest. Before becoming overwhelmed by all the technical specifications of a production, the client needs to be sold on a concept. In this class, Jim Woodward, senior entertainment product specialist at Vectorworks, Inc., will cover the efficiency and capabilities of Vectorworks to communicate different ideas into a successful proposal.

Learning Objectives:

1. Organize workspaces for efficient conceptual design.
2. Develop class and layer strategies for comparing different concepts.
3. Create templates for presentation and proposals using viewports and sheet layers.
4. Use project sharing for team collaboration and revisions.

Presentation Suited For:

• Architects
• Event Planners
• Set Designers
• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers

Skill Level: Intermediate

In this one-hour lecture with Vectorworks Architect Product Specialist Sarah Barrett, attendees will learn how to take advantage of Vectorworks’ many 2D graphic and presentation capabilities. With all of these different tools, there is no need to use another presentation software to create eye-catching presentations. Some features that will be discussed include data visualization, class overrides, gradients and opacities, alpha channel transparency, and more. Sarah will also discuss how to create key plans, exploded axons, color masks, layered viewports, and diagrams directly in your model.

Presentation Suited For:Architects

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced

In this session, senior associate designer Amanda Stephens will discuss the 3D design evolution, with examples from the tour phase of “Dear Evan Hansen.” The discussion will include how her workflow in 3D has evolved as she has continued to work in 3D and learn to use project management across design disciplines to create comprehensive drawings, including accurate rigging plans.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover basic 3D modeling using extrusions from a 2D plan.
2. Learn to create viewport/sheet layouts from a 3D model.
3. Use class overrides to manipulate graphic attributes in viewports.
4. Learn to set up a file to use project sharing.

Presentation Suited For:

• Set Designers
• Entertainment Designers
• Lighting Designers
• Sound and Projection Designers

Skill Level: Intermediate

Since 2009, Pacific Coast Land Design (PCLD) in Ventura, California has been using Vectorworks as its primary design software when designing large-scale public works, urban design, and residential development projects. Senior associate Eric Berg and principal Mike Zielsdorf will illustrate how their six-person firm successfully uses the tools within Vectorworks to produce everything from early conceptual graphics to construction documents, design details, and construction administration exhibits, enhancing the final delivery of their projects. As a firm on the leading edge of the BIM transition in landscape architecture, the PCLD team will provide attendees with a first-hand look into the tools, workflows, and best practices they use day to day to help move projects from genesis to completion.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover the “linear” workflow: how to most efficiently take a project from concept through construction documents in Vectorworks.
2. Learn how to utilize the import/export functionality within Vectorworks to aid in design consultant collaboration and the use of third party software while maintaining a “linear” workflow.
3. Understand how to construct smart document packages within Vectorworks for schematic design, design development, and construction documentation.
4. Understand how to build a workgroup library to better manage collective resources.

Presentation Suited For:

• Landscape Architects
• Landscape Designers

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced

This session with Vectorworks User Experience Manager Jim Wilson has a focus on rendering techniques that pertain to theater and concert venues. Jim will discuss the ins and outs of lit fog, dramatic light effects, proper handling of darkness, edge lighting, and much more. Attendees will not only receive technical knowledge on how to accomplish interior, low-light renderings and how to create commonly used stage elements, but will also receive a demonstration file with included resources that they can use or modify as they wish for future projects.

Note: This lecture assumes a basic knowledge of rendering styles, use of light objects, and applying textures.

Presentation Suited For:

• Entertainment Designers

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced