Vectorworks Design Suite 2025
Design Suite is the complete package including everything Vectorworks has to offer. Building tools, landscaping features, and entertainment design - it's all here.
Vectorworks is now available as a monthly or annual subscription, including the latest version, support, tutorials, licence management, and more.
The ultimate Vectorworks package that offers 2D and 3D capabilities with all the available industry specific tools.
Like all Vectorworks products, Design Suite is easy to use and has a more intuitive interface than many traditional CAD applications. If you're looking for time-saving, industry specific tools you may wish to consider Vectorworks Architect, Vectorworks Spotlight or Vectorworks Landmark. If you're looking for a more streamlined Vectorworks package, take a look at Vectorworks Fundamentals.
What's New in Vectorworks Design Suite 2024
Shaded Rendering Shadows and Camera Effects
Take advantage of unlimited shadow casting in real-time to assess your designs confidently, and quickly determine lighting, camera, and material setup so you can create better visuals faster.
Viewport Styles
Save custom viewport settings as styles, making them easily transferrable between viewports and project files. Cut out the tedium of replicating your viewport settings and avoid errors.
Excel Referencing
Create a new reference in Vectorworks, meaning you can opt for automatic updates to referenced files. Additionally, you can make changes in Vectorworks and push the data back to Excel.
Parametric Handrails and Guardrails
Includes styled objects and more creation options that interact with other model objects like slabs, stairs, and site models. The Railing tool will also support guardrails and handrails, as well as configurations designed to help you meet building code and accessibility standards.
Site Model Analysis Legends
Experience better control over the graphical output of your site model snapshot with new legends to help clients understand annotations. A highly customisable colour scale provides all the relevant information about slope ranges and elevation values.
Vision Projectors
Projectors in Vision function with the lighting algorithm found in Spotlight, allowing them to cast realistic shadows. Control coloor temperature, check projector positioning, focus, and keystoning in advance, enabling a more accurate pre-viz workflow when combining lighting and media projectors
Plus...
- Faster Section Viewports
- USD import & export
- NVIDIA Omniverse connector
- Send to Surface improvements
- Improved resource libraries organisation
- Cloud presentation improvements
- Redshift for everyone
- Customisable DWG import/export options
Why Vectorworks Design Suite?
It's the all-in-one solution, containing everything offered within...
Vectorworks Fundamentals
Enjoy the flexibility to design anything you can imagine. Freely sketch, model, and document your design ideas with precision drafting capabilities and the most flexible 3D modelling engine available - powered by SIEMENS Parasolid.
Vectorworks Architect
The design-centric BIM workflow brings everything together and increases your efficiency. With the versatility to support your project at every stage, easily transition from massing models, to BIM models, to construction documents.
Vectorworks Landmark
Landmark is the only comprehensive BIM software made specifically for landscape architects and designers. With intelligent objects, powerful databases, and flexible documentation features, it streamlines 2D and 3D landscape workflows.
Vectorworks Spotlight
Choose from a huge library of lighting, audio, video, scenic, and rigging manufacturer content to create light plots and automate paperwork. Spotlight is the professional design platform that sets the standard for the entertainment industry.
Which version is for me?
Check out the differences between the different Vectorworks versions at a glance in the chart below. For full details, please view the Vectorworks comparison guide: Fundamentals, Architect or Design Suite?
Fundamentals
Architect
Design Suite
Resource Manager
Object Information Palette
Navigation Palette
Core 3D Modelling Tools & Commands
High Quality Renderworks Rendering
Industy-Specific Design Tools e.g. Building Shell
BIM Tools
Geographic Information Services (GIS)
Landscape Design Tools
Trussing, Hoist & Cable Tools
All Architectural Tools
All Landscaping Tools
All Entertainment Design Tools
Shaded Rendering Shadows and Camera Effects
Take advantage of unlimited shadow casting in real-time to assess your designs confidently, and quickly determine lighting, camera, and material setup so you can create better visuals faster.
Viewport Styles
Save custom viewport settings as styles, making them easily transferrable between viewports and project files. Cut out the tedium of replicating your viewport settings and avoid errors.
Excel Referencing
Create a new reference in Vectorworks, meaning you can opt for automatic updates to referenced files. Additionally, you can make changes in Vectorworks and push the data back to Excel.
Parametric Handrails and Guardrails
Includes styled objects and more creation options that interact with other model objects like slabs, stairs, and site models. The Railing tool will also support guardrails and handrails, as well as configurations designed to help you meet building code and accessibility standards.
Site Model Analysis Legends
Experience better control over the graphical output of your site model snapshot with new legends to help clients understand annotations. A highly customisable colour scale provides all the relevant information about slope ranges and elevation values.
Vision Projectors
Projectors in Vision function with the lighting algorithm found in Spotlight, allowing them to cast realistic shadows. Control coloor temperature, check projector positioning, focus, and keystoning in advance, enabling a more accurate pre-viz workflow when combining lighting and media projectors
Plus...
- Faster Section Viewports
- USD import & export
- NVIDIA Omniverse connector
- Send to Surface improvements
- Improved resource libraries organisation
- Cloud presentation improvements
- Redshift for everyone
- Customisable DWG import/export options
Why Vectorworks Design Suite?
It's the all-in-one solution, containing everything offered within...
Vectorworks Fundamentals
Enjoy the flexibility to design anything you can imagine. Freely sketch, model, and document your design ideas with precision drafting capabilities and the most flexible 3D modelling engine available - powered by SIEMENS Parasolid.
Vectorworks Architect
The design-centric BIM workflow brings everything together and increases your efficiency. With the versatility to support your project at every stage, easily transition from massing models, to BIM models, to construction documents.
Vectorworks Landmark
Landmark is the only comprehensive BIM software made specifically for landscape architects and designers. With intelligent objects, powerful databases, and flexible documentation features, it streamlines 2D and 3D landscape workflows.
Vectorworks Spotlight
Choose from a huge library of lighting, audio, video, scenic, and rigging manufacturer content to create light plots and automate paperwork. Spotlight is the professional design platform that sets the standard for the entertainment industry.
Which version is for me?
Check out the differences between the different Vectorworks versions at a glance in the chart below. For full details, please view the Vectorworks comparison guide: Fundamentals, Architect or Design Suite?
| Fundamentals | Architect | Design Suite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resource Manager | |||
| Object Information Palette | |||
| Navigation Palette | |||
| Core 3D Modelling Tools & Commands | |||
| High Quality Renderworks Rendering | |||
| Industy-Specific Design Tools e.g. Building Shell | |||
| BIM Tools | |||
| Geographic Information Services (GIS) | |||
| Landscape Design Tools | |||
| Trussing, Hoist & Cable Tools | |||
| All Architectural Tools | |||
| All Landscaping Tools | |||
| All Entertainment Design Tools |