Everything you need to bring any project to life

Use design suite to draft, model, and present your designs with all the capabilities of Vectorworks architect, landmark, and spotlight.

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Architect

Bring your architectural vision to life in a fully integrated BIM workflow.

BIM Project Delivery

Utilise intelligent, data-rich BIM workflows that include parametric building objects like walls, doors, and windows. Easily manage data and collaborate on your models.

Custom Design Elements

Achieve truly bespoke designs with advanced 3D modelling, and add custom parametric elements using algorithmic-aided design tools.

Documentation and Detailing

Easily generate comprehensive construction documentation, fabrication details, and shop drawings to ensure clarity and accuracy throughout the construction process.

Sustainable Design

Optimise your designs with built-in energy and embodied carbon assessments that lead to smarter, more sustainable decision-making.

Visualisation and Presentations

Explore architectural concepts with AI and showcase your vision with stunning renderings, immersive AR/VR experiences, and customisable presentations and mood boards.

Worksheets and Reporting

Use your drawings to automatically generate pre-formatted and custom reports such as material quantity take-offs and schedules for doors, windows, room finishes, and more.


Cloud Sharing and Processing

Free up bandwidth by shifting resource-heavy processing like rendering, animations, and file exports to the cloud, and collaborate on projects from any web-enabled device.

Collaboration

Collaborate on projects in a multi-user environment, exchange models using openBIM, and share files in formats for AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, and Rhino.

Interior Design

Design custom interiors with precise tools for millwork, cabinetry, and furnishings. Plus, get access to extensive manufacturer catalogues for accurate specifications.

Manufacturer Libraries

Access extensive libraries of industry-specific manufacturer content, including furniture, fixtures, and construction materials.

Mobile App

Create 3D models from your photos, generate point clouds and accurate room plans, review cloud-hosted documents, and visualise your designs with AR and VR.

Preliminary and Schematic Design

Assess and refine your design concepts with powerful site analysis tools, direct modelling, and low-detail elements like generic building objects.

Quality Assurance

Use embedded data to visualise and validate your designs and generate detailed data sheets that support project requirements like code compliance and building performance.

Space Planning and Analysis

Explore your project programs with smart planning tools. Use automated worksheets to assess your designs and make more informed decisions with dynamic data visualisation.

Vectorworks Partner Network

Enhance your workflows with integrations from industry leaders like Solibri, Bluebeam, Revizto, BIMCollab, and much more.

Landmark

Design and deliver creative and sustainable landscape projects of any size.

BIM Project Delivery

Leverage intelligent, data-rich BIM workflows that include parametric objects like site models and softscape elements. Easily manage data and collaborate on your models.

Collaboration

Work seamlessly in a multi-user environment and share files with collaborators using common formats for AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, and Rhino.

Planting and Softscapes

Use tools for tree preservation and plant layout/selection to create detailed planting plans for landscape beds, rain gardens, green roofs, and more.

Schematics and Context Modelling

Geolocate your projects and integrate GIS to visualise site concepts with massing models, intuitive bubble diagramming, and powerful data visualisation tools.

Sustainability and Site Performance

Optimise environmental impact with tools that help you assess embodied carbon, biodiversity net gain (BNG), biomass density, urban heat island effects, and permeability.

Worksheets and Reporting

Automatically generate estimates, proposals, quantity take-offs, plant lists, material schedules, and land use reports directly from your site drawings.


Bespoke Landscape Design Elements

Achieve truly unique landscape designs with advanced 3D modelling, and add custom parametric elements using algorithmic-aided design tools.

Cloud Sharing and Processing

Collaborate on projects from any web-enabled device, and free up bandwidth by shifting resource-heavy processing like rendering and file exports to the cloud.

Construction Documentation

Generate comprehensive construction documentation that includes live sections and elevations, site layouts, schedules, installation details, and legends.

Grading

Model complex terrain in both 2D and 3D, perform slope analysis, calculate cut and fill, and set accurate spot elevations to inform your grading strategies.

Hardscapes Design

Use specialised tools for hardscapes to add functional outdoor spaces to your landscape designs, from patios and city squares to paths, roadways, and overhead structures.

Irrigation Design

Design and analyse comprehensive irrigation systems with tools that factor in water budgeting and parameters like pressure, flow rate, and velocity.

Manufacturer Symbol Libraries

Access extensive symbol libraries from industry-specific manufacturers that include plants, hardscape features, site furnishings, structures, and more.

Mobile App

Use photos of existing sites to create 3D models, generate existing site inventory via point clouds, review cloud-hosted files, and visualise designs with AR and VR.

Quality Assurance

Visualise and validate your landscape designs with embedded data, and generate detailed data sheets that support project requirements such as compliance and site conditions.

Vectorworks Partner Network

Enhance your workflows with integrations from industry leaders like AutoTurn and Esri, plus partnerships with plant providers and nurseries.

Visualisation and Presentations

Explore landscape concepts with AI and showcase your design solutions with immersive AR/VR experiences and rendered site plans, sections, and unique exterior perspectives.

Water Management

Analyse surface drainage to capture rainwater for reuse and infiltration, plus use hydrozones and worksheets to budget more efficiently and meet water conservation goals.

Spotlight

Create and produce shows and live events with industry-standard software.

Data and Power Planning

Manage DMX patching, generate detailed paperwork, and integrate with Lightwright and Excel to streamline your data and power planning workflows.

Lighting Design

Design intricate lighting setups with an extensive library of instruments and trusses, and use DMX patching to maintain precise control of your rigs.

Previsualisation

Quickly generate DMX-driven saved views and animations that can be used in client presentations and pre-production planning.

Rendering and Presentations

Showcase your ideas, from white model creation to fully rendered scene. Further enhance your presentations with AI-generated imagery and immersive AR/VR experiences.

Scenic and Set Design

Take your ideas from concept to completion with modeling and documentation tools that make it easy to add scenery elements, apply textures, and much more.

Worksheets and Reporting

Use your drawings to automatically generate pre-formatted reports such as channel hookups, instrument schedules, inventories, estimates, and equipment lists.


Audio/Visual Planning

Create speaker layouts and visualise audio coverage with specialised audio tools, and use third-party integrations for even more advanced sound modelling and system optimisation.

Cloud Sharing and Processing

Shift resource-heavy hardware processing like animation generation to the cloud, and easily access and collaborate on projects from any web-enabled device.

Collaboration

Collaborate on projects in a multi-user environment, and share and review files with teammates using common file formats like GDTF and MVR.

Custom Design Elements

Create truly unique design elements with advanced 3D modelling, algorithmic-aided design, and customisable parametric objects.

Event Planning

Plan events of any scale with tools that let you create detailed seating layouts, optimise space usage, and ensure an optimal audience experience.

Lighting Plots

Speed up light plot creation with automated tools like auto-numbering, equipment summary keys, and label legends. Plus, easily create sections and elevations that convey your vision.

Manufacturer Symbol Libraries

Access extensive libraries of industry-standard manufacturer symbols for lighting, audio, video, and staging equipment.

Mobile App

Generate point clouds and accurate room plans, create 3D models from your photos, review cloud-hosted files, and visualise designs with AR and VR.

Rigging Design

Create safe, efficient, and visually stunning rigging systems using truss objects and specialized tools for elements like hoists and bridles.

Scenic Build Drawings

Generate scenic build drawings that include details like floor plans, layouts, dimensions, and materials—ensuring seamless communication between design and production.

Vectorworks Partner Network

Enhance your workflows with integrations from industry leaders like L-Acoustics and Lightwright.

Entertainment Modules

Expand your entertainment design capabilities with add-ons that can be purchased for use with Design Suite and Vectorworks Spotlight.

Braceworks

Collaboration

Collaborate seamlessly with structural engineers by exporting your Braceworks models to industry-standard formats like SCIA and DSTV.

Content Libraries

Get access to content libraries from local manufacturers that include standard components specific to your market.

Reports

Generate comprehensive calculation reports, weight summaries, truss stress analyses, hoist reports, and FEA documentation directly within your design files.

Rigging Analysis

Ensure the safety and viability of your rigging structures with analysis tools that accurately calculate hoist forces, influence lines, bridle configurations, and truss workloads.

Rigging Error Checking

Identify and resolve rigging issues with a visual error-checking system that highlights disconnected hoists, overloaded components, unsupported structures, and more.

ConnectCAD

2D Wiring Diagrams

Visualise your AV design with 2D schematics that map every connection, socket, and device—ensuring clarity and accuracy at every step.

Cable and Equipment Labels

Streamline on-site installation with clear, consistent labels for cables, devices, sockets, and panels that can be generated directly from your designs.

Cable Planning

Plan cable routes with tools that calculate lengths, conduit sizing, and material requirements. Include these details in documentation and easily share with contractors.

Collaboration

Ensure smooth collaboration between designers, installers, contractors, and stakeholders with detailed reports, equipment lists, and IFC-compatible space data.

Documentation

Save valuable time during project hand-offs with detailed circuit reports, device inventories, cable schedules, and tools that help deliver as-built documentation.

Rack and Panel Planning

Design detailed rack layouts in both 2D and 3D. Build custom panels tailored to your project’s needs and visualise your entire rack setup within your Vectorworks model.

Riser Diagrams

Clearly communicate physical cable routing infrastructure to electrical contractors and building teams with detailed riser diagrams annotated with conduit sizes and pathways.

Room and Equipment Layouts

Use integrated 2D and 3D layout tools to precisely plan the physical placement of racks, consoles, devices, and other equipment within your floor plans and models.

Verification and Error Checking

Use built-in verification tools to automatically identify errors such as missing connections or incompatible equipment—helping you deliver accurate system designs every time.

Tools and Resources for New Zealand

Meet local industry standards and maximise productivity with product localisations designed for New Zealand.

Australian and New Zealand Plants

Access a vast 2D and 3D image prop library of Australian and New Zealand plants. Use out-of-the-box and customisable blends of plants to suit regional biomes.

Content Libraries

Get access to a wide variety of New Zealand content elements, including colour palettes, finishes, hatches, gradient fills, and more.

Manufacturer Libraries

Add and customise pre-configured constructed building and landscape elements that faithfully represent catalogue items from New Zealand manufacturers.

Partner and Product Integrations

Add more capabilities to your design workflow with integrations from local industry leaders like EvergreenConnect, Lysaght, Soundvision, Moasure, and Globe Plants.

Templates

Jumpstart your workflows with customisable New Zealand templates that include our recommended file organisation as well as instructions on how to use them.

Tools

Enhance your designs with powerful tools like the Detailer Tool and Site Services Tools—making it easy to create and modify construction details and manage complex drawing tasks.

Try / Buy

Unlock the power of Vectorworks Design Suite by starting a free trial, or purchase the software today to jump right in.