• Vectorworks Design Summit 2016

    Vectorworks Inc. have announced the Design Summit for 2016 will be in Chicago, 25-29 April 2016. This year the Design Summit was held at the end of April and it was a huge success. I think there were over 350 people there (more than they expected). As the first Design…

  • Vectorworks Design Summit Day 3

    This was the final day, so it was filled with the closing address by Adrian McGregor and the peek into the future of Vectorworks 2016 by Dr. Biplab Sarkar. This is the first time ever that Vectorworks have told anyone what the future of Vectorworks will look like. Usually, we…

  • Vectorworks Design Summit April 27-29 2015 – Session 3 BIM for Landscape – Notes

    BIM FOR LANDSCAPE  |  APPROVED FOR 1 AIA LU & 1 LA CES Jonathan Pickup, Author and Director of Training, archoncad Tuesday 2:00PM – 3:00AM There is a lot of talk about Building Information Modelling (BIM) in relation to architecture, but not a lot of talk about Building Information Modeling in relation to…

  • Vectorworks Design Summit Day 2

    Today was a very busy day for me. When I arranged to attend the Design Summit I suggested that they put me to work as much as possible. Well, they really worked me today. I gave three presentations today: Creating and Managing Your Libraries (2x) BIM for Landscape

  • Vectorworks Design Summit Day 1

    The Design Summit opened with several session of advanced training. These sessions were intensive 3 hrs of training on Landmark, Architect and Site Modelling. I wish I had been able to enjoy the Architect Session – it was focussed on layers, levels and stories, something I have done a few times…

  • Vectorworks Design Summit Day 0

    I arrived very early today after a 30 hour trip from Napier, New Zealand. Of course I was very tired, and although I thought the travel didn’t affect me, it did. Here I am having a hot bagel for breakfast in the sun with Marilyn, the NZ distributor. Not in…