Vectorworks Vision

Included with Spotlight and Design Suite subscription licences

The power to pre-visualise and cue shows at your fingertips, whether on site or off. Experiment with looks and cues, review options with your clients, and get buy in — all before load in.
 

• Prepare smarter, design faster, save time: With the power to previsualise and cue your show at your fingertips, you’ll save time and money by exploring what your rig can do without needing to travel to the venue or have your crew stand by.
• Customisable and comprehensive fixtures: Go beyond the ordinary with flexible tools that allow you to customise colours, gobos, lenses, shutters, or any other fixture parameter. Tap into comprehensive fixture libraries that equip you with everything you need to design a memorable show.
• Light any venue: Once your model is complete, control your lighting fixtures in the Vision scene window, so you can cue your entire concert, trade show, broadcast, theatre production, or event.

FAQs

Do I need to own some other CAD program to use Vision? Instead of replicating functionality, Vision takes care of the pre-visualisation whilst Vectorworks deals with the 3D design. Vision also has plugin support for the latest releases of Vectorworks Spotlight, Vectorworks Designer and 3D Studio Max.

What lighting desks does Vision work with? Vision communicates with a wide array of DMX consoles, including the MA2, Hog, ETC EOS, and many more that can send ArtNET or sACN NET protocols over an ethernet connection. And you can also work offline with Windows support for hog3, MA1&2, and many other consoles.

Renderworks

Included with every version of Vectorworks.

Renderworks, powered by Cineware by Maxon, is your built-in rendering tool in Vectorworks. The robust technology allows you to create photorealistic renderings that are bound to impress.

Renderworks amplifies the visual effect of your design with features like lighting, reflections, volumetric effects, camera effects, and anti-aliasing.
 

• Integrated: Renderworks is built-in to Vectorworks, giving you an integrated and powerful rendering tool without the need for 3rd party rendering software.
• Ray tracing: The standout feature. Precise calculations of light and shadow.
• Redshift by Maxon: Speed up your rendering process by relying on the graphics processing unit (GPU), which estimates light, unlike ray tracing.

So, what’s BIM?

BIM is not a piece of software. BIM is a way of structured way of designing a facility. It stands for Building Information Modelling.

A BIM is a 3D digital model containing organised items (e.g. walls, windows, heating plant etc) that have additional information attached (e.g. load bearing, thermal performance). This space does not even have to be a building but could be a landscape or park.

BIM allows reliable decisions to be made about the facility for its entire life cycle from its earliest conception through to its demolition.

Vectorworks Cloud Services

Included with every version of Vectorworks.

Convenient file sharing, online storage, and collaboration. Sync between computers & devices. Use cloud processing. Enhanced publishing tools.
 

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Nomad: the mobile and tablet app

For mobile devices, you can publish your project in two different ways using the Nomad app…

1. as a 2D PDF drawing, which can measured and annotated, with notes synced between devices
2. as a 3D model, which you can navigate around and walk-through

Download Nomad: