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Vectorworks, Inc. has released its third update for the Vectorworks 2026 product line. This update includes the following quality improvements that enhance your everyday experience with Vectorworks 2026. Important Enhancements General Improves general stability. Provides more consistent snapping, selection, reshaping, and trimming. Predictable results when trimming complex polylines. Easier selection and editing of doors, windows, and other inserted objects. Consistent object editing and reshaping behavior across different views. Reliable behavior when drawing with the 2D Polygon and 3D Polygon tools. The AI Visualizer has been upgraded to a new AI model that produces significantly better image quality, understands long descriptive and instructional prompts in plain language, preserves colors and textures from the Vectorworks source image, follows edges in the source image, and allows the addition of objects and changes to colors and materials from image swatches. Editing prompts can add, delete, and modify objects, as well as change style, point of view, weather, and time of day. After setting a datum point (G shortcut key), subsequent floating Data bar values refer to the object’s position, not the datum’s. Resolves an issue with data tag scaling when the file is exported to PDF. The Title Block Project Revision History report sorts rows by issue number. Interoperability Improves IFC export of windows and walls, so that openings, wall wrappings, and recesses export correctly to common IFC viewers. Properly imports duct connections and related elements from DDScad IFC files. Improves Revit- and IFC-based workflows, so that ceilings, columns, doors, and wall openings are preserved more reliably when exchanging models with other applications. Architect libraries: Koncept – Interior table lamps, floor lamps, and wall and ceiling light symbols. Banker Wire – Architectural metal wire mesh textures. Landmark Enhances landscape reporting and analysis by allowing subparts and materials in draped hardscapes and landscape areas to be correctly visualized and scheduled. Improves the reliability of the tree survey workflow. The improvements include better handling of units and user-defined settings when importing existing tree survey files. Plants: Resolves incorrect wavy sketch mass outlines. Plant category is applied to the style when a plant entry is selected from the plant catalog. Editing plant style data in the Plant Style Manager correctly applies all changes. A new filter shows only plant styles in the Plant tool’s Style parameter. Apply fill across plant grouping is applied when creating a new plant. Plants correctly display mature size in the Spread and Height parameters in both the Object Info palette and the settings dialog boxes (Plant Preferences, Plant Settings, Edit Plant Style, and Plant Style Manager). Config matches the Tool bar selection when creating and placing a plant style from geometry. Site models: An improved approach now correctly interpolates and creates the site model geological components for random survey points. Proposed contours no longer extend beyond modified site model areas. Properly applies open edge line site modifiers to the proposed site model surface. Landscape areas: Landscape areas no longer create duplicate mesh components when conforming to the site model proposed surface. Survey points: Geometry import correctly centers on the internal origin while preserving the user origin when both alignment options are enabled. Landmark libraries: Compass Pools – Fiberglass inground pool symbols. OzBreed – Photorealistic plant symbols and data for the Plant tool. Straight Curve – Modular steel garden edging symbols. Spotlight Enhances MVR import and export, so that LED walls and lighting fixtures transfer more reliably between Vectorworks and visualizers. Improves performance and responsiveness when working with lighting devices, shutters, and GDTF geometry. Spotlight libraries: American DJ – Audio updates. ROE Visual – Additional LED panel product lines: Black Quartz, Topaz-B, and Topaz-C. Rose Brand – Fabric textures 2. Velvet Light – Lighting device symbols. ConnectCAD When analyzing cable routes, devices associated with rack frames are calculated correctly. The Adapter tool can be used while the ConnectCAD Status palette is open. Architect, Landmark, Spotlight When updating roofs and skylights, component offsets and skylight heights stay accurate across a wider range of roof slopes and configurations. Walls bound by roof faces continue to be bound when you commit changes to and refresh shared project files, paste to other files, and perform similar operations. Resolves multiple wall, door, window, and assembly issues when repositioning assemblies, offsetting sashes, inserting in walls, and editing. The Cut Plane parameter in the Edit Design Layers dialog box is editable in all products (previously, editing was available only in Architect). Fixes several viewport and drawing presentation issues, including advanced line scaling, styled viewports in two-point perspective, stacking order overrides, tile display in horizontal sections, and drawing title editing for multiple viewports. Line styles, fills, and overrides in data visualizations apply correctly to materials and sub-objects. You can set a default render style for use when Showcase is active, and can interactively edit the render options while Showcase is active. Architect, Landmark Contours, grade tags, default grade values, and grade data stamps behave consistently with grading and site models. Improves geoimage support for ESRI, WFS, and WMS services. Fixes the Create Stepped Wall command. Installing the Update This update is available as a downloadable updater for all U.S. English-based versions of Vectorworks 2026. To install the update, please select Check for Updates from the Vectorworks menu (Mac) or Help menu (Windows). Please submit a support request in the customer portal if you have any technical questions or problems during this process. For a full list of improvements in this update, please visit this page.

Vectorworks, Inc. has released its eighth update for the Vectorworks 2025 product line. This update includes the following quality improvements that enhance your everyday experience with Vectorworks 2025. Important Enhancements General Improves general stability. Improves compatibility with macOS Tahoe 26. Improves overall stability when opening complex, georeferenced projects that use referenced building models. Improves copying and pasting graphic legends. Interoperability Improves IFC operation type information for windows and doors. Improves handling of colors exported in IFC for objects inside auto hybrids. Improves support for BCF platforms Smino and BIMcollab Zoom. Architect, Landmark, Spotlight Improves reliability when editing story reference heights in shared project files. Ensures that sheet layer annotation data tags in shared projects keep their associations to objects, so the data tags do not unexpectedly revert to default text. Corrects data visualization, so spaces with internal holes display properly. Improves the Data Manager’s handling of space finishes whose names contain commas. Installing the Update This update is available as a downloadable updater for all U.S. English-based versions of Vectorworks 2025. To install the update, please select Check for Updates from the Vectorworks menu (Mac) or Help menu (Windows). Please submit a support request in the customer portal if you have any technical questions or problems during this process. For a full list of improvements in this update, please visit this page.

Dec 16-2025 Vectorworks 2026 Update 2.1 Update 2.1 improves performance, stability, and file handling across several workflows. Fixes include: • Improved response when working with lighting devices. • Resolved crashes when updating referenced files. • Faster file opening after 2026 update. • Better performance under macOS Tahoe 26.0.1. • Fixed PDF export issues causing text shifts and Data Tag resets. • Corrected freeze during application launch. ------------------------------------ Vectorworks, Inc. has released its second update for the Vectorworks 2026 product line. This update includes the following quality improvements that enhance your everyday experience with Vectorworks 2026. Important Enhancements General Improves general stability. Changes made to imported Excel worksheets display when updating the worksheets in Vectorworks. Modified worksheet settings are retained. Improves the user interface display. Resolves visual issues, incorrect sizing, and update delays, especially for high-resolution screens. AI Visualizer: The underlying model used for image generation and editing is improved, especially for following edges in the composition image. Other improvements include support for dark mode, the ability to show or hide tooltips, and disclosure arrows to hide groups of parameters when not in use. Realistic RS interactive preview rendering performance has been improved for panning, zooming, flyover, etc. Improves performance when turning classes on and off. During creation, viewport styles correctly store the perspective view and stacking order override. Interoperability Adds support for Revit 2026. Improves DWG/DXF import/export reliability. Enhances support for wall closures during IFC export. Architect libraries: Duravit – New bathtub, shower tray, and sink symbols. Luxam – New museum lighting symbols. Landmark Existing trees: Improves creating and duplicating existing trees, so their height and elevation values can be set and updated correctly in all locations and in the Object Info palette. Restores batch editing properties for multiple existing trees. Plants: Improves the Plant Style Manager with numerical sorting for dimension columns (spread, height) in imperial units, and ensures updates to plant styles synchronize correctly with the plant catalog and/or plant database. Resolves an issue with darker colors of plant image props created from images. Resolves issues with translating plant outline class and plant spacing. Adjusts Plant tool default settings. Landmark libraries: Green Theory – Site furniture symbols. Artisan Exterior – Hardscape symbols for Australia and New Zealand only. Spotlight Improves the stability and accuracy of cable tools and power schematics, resolving issues with cable section naming, cable breaks, power phase calculations, and duplicated or out-of-order cable breaks. Enhances accuracy in LED wall display and placement: Dimensions of LED wall panels display correctly in the Resource Manager. Resolves a stacking order issue, so curved wall segments can be drawn correctly with the LED Wall tool. When drawing a curve with the Center mode of the LED Wall tool, the LED wall is positioned correctly Improves the Hanging Position tool, so objects attached to a truss system and converted to a hanging position retain their correct placement. Lighting fixtures and attached equipment remain correctly grouped and positioned on their truss when copying, moving, or modifying truss systems. Extends the bridle’s data reporting capabilities in worksheets and data tags by including the PartsListLeg and PartsListBasket parameters. Improves the synchronization of data between cable objects and their cable sections. Improves support for copying and pasting connected fixtures and distributors. Adds a Trim Height worksheet function for reporting the trim height field of a rigging object. Spotlight libraries: Acme Lighting – Lighting device updates. Brompton Technology – Video control symbols. Chauvet – Lighting device updates. Clay Paky – Lighting device updates. Eilon Engineering – Load cell symbols. EM Acoustics – Audio accessory symbols. fos.design – LED lighting symbols. JMAZ Lighting – Lighting symbols. Neo Truss System – Truss clamp symbols. PK Sound – Speakers and bumpers. RCF – Speakers and bumpers. Rose Brand – Fabric textures. ConnectCAD The ConnectCAD Status palette no longer displays a “no equipment” warning for devices with rack frames. Correctly generates unique circuit numbers when the numbering is based on signals with different name lengths. Sloping console racks display correctly in rack elevations. Architect, Landmark, Spotlight Enhances reliability when creating and editing door and window assemblies. Enhancements include: Correct frame and mullion display in both 2D and 3D. Proper updating of style parameters across all instances. Prevention of geometry duplication. More predictable behavior when building or modifying assemblies. Improves data tag consistency for various object types. Data tags stay in the correct place, update as expected, and retain user-entered information even when users change styles, make associations, or replace objects. Improves the speed at which data tags transfer data to tagged objects. Objects in the below cut plane class of walls have the visibility and attribute overrides of that class. Architect, Landmark Exporting site model objects using IFC 4 and IFC 4x3 no longer corrupts triangulation geometry. A white vertical plane no longer appears in section viewports or obscures 3D models. Section views now render correctly without unwanted artifacts from site models. Improves hardscape editing and display in graphic legends. Resolves issues with hardscape annotation attribute classes, styles, and by-class attributes. Installing the Update This update is available as a downloadable updater for all U.S. English-based versions of Vectorworks 2026. To install the update, please select Check for Updates from the Vectorworks menu (Mac) or Help menu (Windows). Please submit a support request in the customer portal if you have any technical questions or problems during this process. For a full list of improvements in this update, please visit this page.

Vectorworks, Inc. has released its first update for the Vectorworks 2026 product line. This update includes the following quality improvements that enhance your everyday experience with Vectorworks 2026. Important Enhancements General Improves general stability. Enhances project sharing reliability: Data tags in viewport annotations stay connected to their associated objects. Fixes an issue that prevented some resources from being edited. Resolves compatibility issues when launching with the Vectorworks Site Protection Server. When exporting files with lighting devices to Vectorworks 2025, the file size no longer increases. Door objects remain intact when opening older files. Fixes issues with render styles and Showcase render styles. Improves compatibility with macOS 26 (Tahoe): In dialog boxes such as Organization, Viewport Layer Properties, and Viewport Class Properties, pressing Return in search fields performs searches instead of closing the dialog box. Numbers with multiple digits can be typed directly into the floating Data bar. Landmark Existing tree canopies copy correctly to new files. When placing plant arrays, the preview displays in the correct location. The vegetation line supports existing trees. Landscape areas maintain and properly update the plant list when a plant style is modified. 3D plant geometry correctly scales, and an image prop creation issue has been resolved. The Plant Style Manager correctly counts plant instances, and a Plant Style Name setting issue has been resolved. Spotlight In schematic views, label legends match the Top/Plan accessory object display for accessory fields. Editing render styles and Showcase render styles accurately transfers design layer settings. Changes are reflected immediately in scenes. Resolves texture issues for LED walls. Braceworks One-piece side arms work correctly for structural calculations. Improves geometry accuracy for truss corners. Architect, Landmark, Spotlight Improves the Top/Plan view of wall features across design layers with varied elevations. Wall lines and fills below the cut plane display for span wall windows. Slab style preview images display component pen lines. Wall Closure dialog box Preview displays wall components. Resolves issues when editing door, window, and door and window assembly styles. Improves editing door and window assembly layouts. The Vectorworks Embodied Carbon Calculator (VECC) displays the correct units for quantity and weight. Architect, Landmark Survey points adjust objects placed on multiple design layers. Improves site model stability. Installing the Update This update is available as a downloadable updater for all U.S. English-based versions of Vectorworks 2026. To install the update, please select Check for Updates from the Vectorworks menu (Mac) or Help menu (Windows). Please submit a support request in the customer portal if you have any technical questions or problems during this process. For a full list of improvements in this update, please visit this page.

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