Jonathan is a pioneer in the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) techniques.  This educational seminar showed you how innovative BIM can be used in your projects.

Building information modelling (BIM) is a fast evolving aspect of the construction industry.
Innovative Vectorworks BIM provides a unique insight into how innovative architectural practices have already started their journeys with BIM and discusses the major new features in Vectorworks 2016, as well as providing many helpful insights into tried a tested BIM workflows.

Find out more about Innovative Vectorworks BIM
http://www.jra-vectorworks-cad.co.uk/innovative-vectorworks-bim.html
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How other professionals use BIM
It features 10 beautifully illustrated case studies and demonstrates the flexibility and benefits of the digital process across diverse projects and building types.

Practical advice and tips
The second part offers hands-on practical advice to empower you to improve your design skills with 50 tips and tricks for Vectorworks Architect and also looks at some of the major new features of the latest release.

This book is essential reading to all those who want to understand more about BIM and Vectorworks

Please purchase direct from my website now for just £19.99 + p&p
http://www.jra-vectorworks-cad.co.uk/store/p37/Innovative_Vectorworks_BIM.html

​This presentation tells the story of how bpr architects responded to BIM and made the switch from 2d to 3d.  Facing the collective challenges of legislation, industry preparedness and above all our own design culture, we successfully adopted Vectorworks Building Information Modelling (BIM) into workflows.
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Using illustrations from the practice’s pre-eminent work in shaping the vision for UK Rail Stations and their expanding role as Civic spaces; Paul will demonstrate how the use of BIM leads to efficient and detailed design co-ordination.

I just returned from 5 amazing days in the U.S.A  in Washington and Baltimore after attending the third annual Vectorworks Design Summit. It was a great opportunity to meet other like minded Vectorworks based professionals, and also the team from Vectorworks from all over the world including Hong Kong, Japan and the Netherlands.

As well as being really informative, eduction and inspirational, it was amazingly fun. It like I was part of something much bigger than just a software conference, with amazing people attending and Vectorworks staff who looked after us so well.

It got me thinking about how important it is to actually enjoy the process of design, and as CAD/BIM is so essential to modern workflows enjoying your design software is really.

Having used Vectorworks for over 20 years, I can honestly say I have always really loved using it for all my projects, and teaching it to my students from around the world.  In that time, I have worked with over 326 companies, delivered over 1650 training days, and empowered over 6500 people.

Vectorworks really is the most enjoyable design software available!

No more teasing, it’s finally here. Today, we released the English-version of Vectorworks 2018 software. Included in the release are Vectorworks Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Designer, and Fundamentals, as well as our previsualization software, Vision. This year we’ve also introduced, Braceworks, an entertainment rigging analysis add-on module targeted to design, production, and rigging professionals working on temporary entertainment structures.

“With Vectorworks 2018, we focused on user workflows, making them more robust and efficient,” said Vectorworks CEO Dr. Biplab Sarkar. “In BIM, you can best see this in our direct section and elevation editing and multiview capabilities, and more subtly in all the Wall tool enhancements that allow designers to correctly model wall constructions so walls appear accurately in plan, section, and elevation drawings. The direct site model contour editing and enhanced seating sections are other good examples of our usability improvements.”
Another theme for this launch was the integration of analysis and design. With the addition of Braceworks to the entertainment portfolio that already includes the industry-leading Spotlight and Vision software, entertainment professionals can complete their entire workflow, from design to documentation to production, in one interface. Also, customers will notice the simplification of Vectorworks worksheet capabilities, which makes it easier for them to create custom reports from model or drawing data.
This release is the first in the 2018 worldwide rollout, which will include the release of ten additional localized-language versions.
You can get a glimpse of some of the highly anticipated additions for Vectorworks 2018 below:

• Direct section and elevation editing: Edit models directly from viewports: add openings, align and distribute windows, reposition doors across multiple layers, reshape walls — it’s all possible. Change the 3D views while in the section to see how edits simultaneously affect plans and model views. And, create better-looking, more-accurate drawings in a fraction of the time.

For architecture, notable improvements include:

• Improved graphic output for architectural documents: Generate documentation from a BIM file much more efficiently. Improved graphic controls within section views of wall joins and wall, or slab and roof components provides the flexibility to quickly achieve high-quality documentation from a 3D model.
• Robust wall modeling options: Control individual component heights by instance, attach information to them, insert component caps, and simultaneously edit multiple selected components from an easy-to-use dialog box. Plus, swiftly make wall graphic display changes with the new ability to switch all attributes by class.
• Easier title block customization: Customize items such as variables and orientation, choose from an unlimited set of information to include in a title block, and use styles to more simply manage many title blocks across one or multiple projects.
• Streamlined drawing distribution: Publish drawings based on issue date and a tightly integrated new title block object; generate and distribute drawing sets, issue information and reports throughout the duration of a project; and automate the typically laborious process of creating a BIM project or lighting a stage.

Enhancements for entertainment design include:

• New zoom option for video and blended screens: It's now easier than ever to manage the planning and visualization of video screens in designs. With new graphic output capabilities, more accurately understand, estimate, and adjust available throw and zoom, to enable final equipment choices earlier in the design process.
• Enhanced seating section: Choose from additional layout methods, multiple seat numbering options, and graphic controls to easily set and modify seating sections from the Object Info palette. Generate more precise seating layout visualizations for an event and automate seating schedules for inventory and ordering.

For landscape design, important updates include:

• Direct site model contour editing: Edit a site model easier than ever with improved site model settings and direct 2D contour editing. Modify each contour line as easily as editing a polyline.
• New import/export tree survey options: Generate existing site conditions from GIS and tree survey data without the need for external tools. Just use geolocated tree species data to create existing tree objects and export back to clients via Shapefile (SHP), TXT, and DXF formats.

As in past years, many updates to the software directly correlated with customer feedback, and designers with early access have already begun to share their thoughts on the new edition.



Beginning today, the English-language version of Vectorworks 2018 software is available by download for Vectorworks Service Select customers. 

If you’re eager to learn more about Vectorworks 2018, visit our website or follow #Vectorworks2018 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Vectorworks always their users first, and that’s why this year we’re letting you be the first to see the exciting things to come in Vectorworks 2018 with our Teaser Tuesdays. Here some of the amazing new features already announced.

• Multi-View
•  Direct Section and Elevation Editing
• Rendered Panoramas
• Revit Import Enhancements
•  Mac TouchBar Support​

" We’d thought long and hard about the future with Vectorworks.  Pressure from other consultants and from bigger projects was moving us in the direction of Revit.  We had also been looking for some training (3D / BIM) for some time.  Previous experience of CAD training was mixed - too much focus on selling and too generalised.  It hadn’t worked for us.

We came across Jonathan Reeves and felt we could work with him.  He’s also a practising architect, which helps, of course, and someone who understood what we were doing and shared some of our aspirations.

We are a small practice, manly working in the private residential sector.  We think of ourselves as a step up form the usual small practice.  We think big, we’re experienced and we work hard.  Our projects are, of course, design focused.  But we take the whole package seriously - budget control, contract, attention to detail and client hand-holding.

We’ve just completed a 2 day course with Jonathan.  We were clear about what we wanted to learn.  We’re sticking with VW and wanted to develop our 3D & modelling skills.  We want to address and engage with the whole BIM thing, with outer consultants, and for the future.

The training went really well.  Jonathan picked up immediately on our goals and he wasted no time in direct hands on training.  It was intense and productive.  We put into practice straight away what we are being taught and this showed us how well or not we were picking things up.

The biggest thing for us is to have got to know a fellow professional, with skills we can learn from.  We will be keeping in touch, we’ll be having more training and this is exactly the support that progressive practices like ours need".

With thanks. Nigel Somner, Principal Architect

As award winning architects, with offices in the Midlands & the South West,  JRA understands your business - whatever your discipline.

​As fully authorised partners of Vectorworks UK, we sell a range of Vectorworks CAD and BIM software online at competitive prices as well as offering day and residential training courses.  ​
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Jonathan Reeves / Director / BA(Hons) M.Arch Dip.Arch RIBA / Jonathan Reeves Architecture
Author of "Innovative Vectorworks BIM"
www.jra-vectorworks-cad.co.uk

jra   Vectorworks CAD & BIM training, sales and visualisation for architects by architects  

Vectorworks, Inc. is excited to announce the opening of its new office in the UK, which began operation on 14 August.

jra is proud to be an authorised UK Vectorworks Partner and Reseller with over 17 years experience, and have worked with over 325 companies, delivered 1650 days of training, and empowered over 6500 individuals to master Vectorworks.

Vectorworks opened this office to provide direct support and resources to best meet the needs of design professionals like you — members of the growing community of Vectorworks users in the UK and Ireland. 

What does this mean for you? You will continue to receive the same great support you’ve grown accustomed to from us, and now we will be able to provide a direct connection to Vectorworks in all matters, including training, live events, technical support, and more. Plus, you’ll have a direct line of communication to Vectorworks’ software engineers, which will give you an opportunity to collaborate and share your wants and needs for future versions of the software as it continues to evolve. 

With this initiative, you will start to see more activity directly from Vectorworks in the UK. For our existing customers, like you, this will mean more focus on providing quality accessible support, with regular presentations, events, and webinars aimed at helping you make the most of your investment with us. We want to help you maximise Vectorworks’ capabilities and workflows to become more efficient and productive in your design discipline, without having to sacrifice creativity and innovation.

jra looks forward to continuing to grow our relationship with you. Please feel free to contact us at any time, and we will happily answer any queries you may have.

Your Sincerely, 

Jonathan Reeves / Director / BA(Hons) M.Arch Dip.Arch RIBA
Jonathan Reeves Architecture

Tel: 01509 64339 Mobile:  0771 3633205 
 www.jra-vectorworks-cad.co.uk
jra   Vectorworks CAD & BIM training, sales and visualisation for architects by architects  ​

Direct Section and Elevation Editing
Vectorworks 2018 will allow editing models directly in your section viewports. Add openings, align and distribute windows, repositions doors across multiple layers, reshape walls — it’s all possible.
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You can even change the 3D views while in the section to see how edits affect model views.