VectorWorks Design Suite 2025 Update 3

Vectorworks, Inc. has released its third update for the Vectorworks 2025 product line. This update includes the following quality improvements that enhance your everyday experience with Vectorworks 2025.

Vectorworks 2025 elevates the design software experience and allows designers to bring their best ideas to life without sacrificing quality or efficiency. Key enhancements focusing on intuitive visualization and interactivity include Onscreen View Control for quick model navigation, Two-Point Perspective for easily creating architectural and photography perspectives, and Object Level Visibility for easily managing individual objects' visibility. Plus, the Vectorworks Cloud Document Reviewer streamlines the document review process for anyone from anywhere. Vectorworks 2025 also offers flexible room finish management and automated BIM data assignment for architects and interior designers, while landscape architects and designers benefit from precise 3D tools for curbs, edging, and borders, and enhanced sustainability documentation. The new version also highlights a more significant investment in entertainment products like Spotlight, Braceworks, and ConnectCAD to enhance workflow efficiency while maintaining quality, aiming to meet the specific needs of entertainment industry professionals. With updates designed directly from customer feedback, lighting, scenic, rigging, and event professionals will find features and improvements implemented specifically to address their most-used entertainment industry tools. Additionally, the latest version includes new developments such as Showcase previz mode, available directly within Vectorworks, and automatic GDTF fixture mapping, further ensuring streamlined workflows and enhanced documentation quality.

Important Enhancements in VectorWorks Design Suite 2025 Update 3

- Improves general stability.
- Resolves an issue that caused the Radial Dimension, Angular Dimension, and Arc Length Dimension tools to fail in viewport annotations.
- On Windows, fixes a problem when selecting classes in the Object Info palette.
- Published PDFs no longer trigger unexpected warnings when opened in Acrobat.
- Redshift lighting effects improvements:
. Lit fog density now responds consistently to the smooth or realistic falloff setting for each light in a scene, even when lights have different settings.
. Spot lights with realistic falloff now have the correct brightness.
- Interoperability
. New Vectorworks and Bluebeam cloud integration.
- Architect libraries:
. New Andersen 100 Series door and window catalogs.
. New Haworth Furniture seating symbols.
- Architect and Landmark
. Site model improvements:
. Enhances site model performance.
. Resolves issues when applying grade limit and spoil pile site modifiers.
. Improves the stability and performance of the curb object.
. Resolves issues with the reporting of hardscape projected and actual surface areas.
- Landmark
. Positions plants appropriately with the Plant tool’s Triangular Array mode.
. Landmark libraries:
.. Updates the site modifiers of the River Pools and Thursday Pools libraries.
.. Improves the nomenclature of Landmark symbol libraries.
- Spotlight
. Improves MVR export speed and quality.
. Improves the way soft goods attach to rigging objects.
. Accurately displays speaker array top bumpers in Top/Plan view.
. Properly shows Gobo, color, shutter, and beam spread for conventional lighting devices in Showcase.
. Fixes cable power calculations when a generator is single phase but the power load is calculated on three phases.
. Corrects context menus when selecting a rigging object for a video screen.
. Better adjusts cables connected to lighting devices when the trim height of a truss system is changed, changing the height of the lighting devices.
. Adds data access script functions for cable sections and cable breaks.
. Adds snapping for Eurotruss FD33 trusses.
. Spotlight libraries:
.. Updates DTS Lighting with Tenore and Soprano lighting device symbols.
.. Updates Spotlight sc © lighting device symbols.
.. Adds ROXX lighting device symbols.
.. Adds Elation SFX symbols.
- ConnectCAD
. Improves the performance of 3D rack groups with different width 3D racks.
- Vectorworks Cloud Services
. Adds the ability to save views within the web portal’s 3D model viewer, allowing for customization of the initial loading view, as well as for creation of a curated walkthrough experience.

Vectorworks is a versatile, on-premise application that provides extensive 2D drafting, 3D modeling, BIM and rendering capabilities for your architectural and landscape design needs. Vectorworks is equipped with designer-focused tools and features, allowing your workflows to have great freedom, ease of use and flexibility.

Vectorworks 2025


Vectorworks, Inc. is an award-winning design and BIM software provider serving the architecture, landscape architecture and entertainment industries in 85 countries. Built with designers in mind since 1985, Vectorworks software offers you the freedom to follow your imagination wherever it leads you. Globally more than 685,000 users are creating, connecting, and influencing the next generation of design with Vectorworks on Mac and Windows. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with offices in the UK, Canada, and Australia, Vectorworks is a part of the Nemetschek Group.

Owner: Vectorworks, Inc.
Product Name: VectorWorks
Version: Design Suite 2025 Update 3
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.vectorworks.net
Languages Supported: english
System Requirements: Windows *
Size: 14.4 Gb