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Introducing RevCloud Plus – Smarter Revision Clouds for Vectorworks Hi everyone, Over the years you would have seen me mentioning a few of the internal tools and workflows we use at CBA Design while discussing scripting and Vectorworks workflows around the forum. We thought it was finally time to start sharing some of them more publicly and one of the first tools we’re preparing for release is RevCloud Plus. RevCloud Plus is being released through CADPax Software Solutions — a new branch of CBA Design Ltd (https://www.cba-design.co.nz). An architectural practice based in Auckland, New Zealand, who over the years have developed quite a large collection of internal Vectorworks plugins, scripts, and workflow tools to help our team work more efficiently. CADPax really grew out of necessity from day-to-day architectural production work, and we’re now at a point where we finally have a bit more time to focus on releasing some of these tools publicly. RevCloud Plus came about from a fairly simple problem: The native Vectorworks revision clouds, (that work well graphically) didn't have a suitable workflow for us around labels, revision data, issue management, and title block coordination. This has always felt a bit disconnected for larger documentation sets. So we built a workflow that combines those parts together into a single object tool. Current features include: Revision cloud + label together as one object Revision and issue metadata support Store in object revision/approval data Store in object who created the bubble, on what machine they created, as well as who last edited, and on what machine last edited (for multiple user projects/Project Sharing) Configurable bubble and label styles Exchange workflow with Vectorworks title block revision data Plugin object can push/pull data to and from the Title Block Revision journal Active / non-active revision states Through classes and visibility toggles Cloud + label class controls Built around real architectural documentation workflows The plugin has been used internally on live projects for quite a while now, and we’re currently cleaning it up for wider release. Release status We're working through the help files and help videos now, along with the Vectorworks 2026 Partner Program application. Vectorworks 2025 does not require that process, so anyone using VW2025 who is interested can contact us directly. We’re primarily Windows users, and we’re currently arranging testing on Mac as well before the wider public release. At this stage we’re aiming to have RevCloud Plus ready for public release in the next week or two, as we finalise these last pieces. The website is still being built, but if anyone is interested, has questions, or would like early access information, feel free to post here, DM me directly, or email us below and we can add you to the waitlist: info@cadpax.com We also have a number of other Vectorworks plugins in the works as well, all developed from tools we use regularly in our own architectural workflow, including: Timber Retaining Wall Tool Height in Relation to Boundary Envelope Tool Document Issue Manager, which works alongside RevCloud Plus and a number of other internal tools we’re preparing for release So watch this space, and join the waitlist if you’d like to be notified as these become available. We’d also be interested to hear how others are currently handling revision cloud + title block workflows in Vectorworks, and pain points we can think about in later versions. Cheers, Tui

I'm trying to use enscape and the only way I can find to add it is through the "third-party" button. Yet my vectorwords doesn't have one? It should be next to "Plug-ins". Anyone know of this problem?

Does VWX have a third party plugin that interfaces with any Inventory Management software so I can see my actual Shop Inventory as I'm designing? Too many times when designing we need to know whats on the warehouse racks. If the gear we are wanting to use is not in inventory, an option for a suitable substitute that "is" on the racks would be in a usable pull-list. Possibly it's part of the BIM world, Macros or scripts??? Any help on this topic would be very helpful.