VectorWorks Design Suite 2025 Update 4

1. Fundamentals
- The new Bluebeam Connection feature allows you to establish a direct connection between a Vectorworks file and an online Bluebeam Studio session, and to import markups into Vectorworks.
- Improved general stability.
- Thumbnails and file previews have been restored in the Finder for macOS users running version 15.4 or later.
- The AI Visualizer web palette has been divided into three tabs to support different parts of the workflow, including new capabilities:
. Inpainting (the ability to add, modify, or remove objects in the image).
. Style transfer, such as using a mood board to establish colors and textures.
. The ability to improve details.
. Control of aspect ratio for text-only image generation.
. Streamlined process for creating image fills, image props, textures, and background resources from an image.
2. The Selection tool now offers scaling capabilities using the 3D dragger.
3. You can now use logical string operators, such as “Starts with,” “Does not start with,” and so on, when defining selection criteria for classes and layers.
4. A new Vectorworks preference lets you set the default visibility for newly imported classes in existing saved views, viewports, and graphic legends.
5. You can now change and revert the size and/or proportions of a PDF Page object in the drawing area from the Object Info palette.
6. Interoperability
- DXF/DWG embedded images (OLE objects):
. You can now choose whether to export images embedded in the DXF/DWG file or referenced from a separate folder.
. Images embedded in the DXF/DWG file are now imported.
- Revit export improvements:
. Translation of Vectorworks native objects to Revit native objects.
. Translation of symbols and mesh objects.
. Textures and some native Revit objects can now be exported.
. Exported files are streamlined and easier to work with.
- Improved use of custom property sets.
- Better support for quantity take offs.
- Improved IFC import and enhanced IFC geometry export.
7. Architect libraries:
- Allseating – New commercial office furniture library containing six of their product lines.
- Pella exterior folding door catalog – New library containing the Pella® 250 Series, Pella® Reserve - Traditional, and Pella® Reserve - Contemporary product lines.
8. Architect, Landmark, and Spotlight
- Data visualization improvements:
. When editing a visualization that changes object attributes by values, you can now purge irrelevant or unused values.
. When creating a viewport, you can now apply a data visualization, and specify whether to include a legend.
. When using a visualization in a viewport with class overrides, you now have more control over which attributes display.
. When using the auto-color feature for fill and pen, you can now select a color palette.
- Enhanced list of Marionette nodes:
. Some nodes have been updated and new modes added for improved Marionette scripting.
. New nodes include workflows to convert symbols to groups, view symbol previews, select file dialog boxes, and divide 2D and 3D polygons.
9. Architect and Landmark
- In hardscape and landscape areas, the Attribute palette is enabled and fully functional, providing access to all main object attributes.
- Improved mesh site models are free of gaps.
- Improved path modifiers prevent unintended longitudinal profile changes when editing transverse profiles.
- Improved alignment of curb modifiers with curb geometry.
- You can now hide a curb's edge modifiers.
- Improved survey point reliability.
- Improved stability when working with the SQLite database.
10. Landmark libraries:
- Anova Site Furniture – Added eight new product lines, and updated four others with new products.
11. Spotlight
- When editing an object that uses internal electrical components, such as a distributor, you can now easily select and edit multiple connections for inputs, overcurrent protectors, and outputs from the Object Info palette.
- Improvements to the Hoist tool include new insertion modes that allow for single click, two click, and distributed insertion options.
- A new preference automatically inserts a truss cross when placing trusses that touch.
- Now ready-to-print labels can be created for Spotlight cables, equipment, and devices.
- Spotlight libraries:
. Artistry in Motion – New confetti launcher symbols library.
. Club Cannon – New special effects machine symbols library.
. EM Acoustics – New bumpers and speaker symbols library.
. Master FX Atlas – New special effects machine symbols library.
. ROXX – Full lighting library update.
. Spotlight Equipment Labels – Styles, symbols, and worksheets for this new feature.
. TOMCAT Tura Series – New truss product line.
. Unisson Truss – New truss symbol library.
. d&b audiotechnik – New XSL Series speaker symbols.
12. Spotlight and Braceworks
- New Braceworks functionality allows you to calculate and report on how much tilt is applied to a truss from the point loads and distributed loads that are attached to the truss chords. A tilting arrow is added to show the direction of tilt, and if the tilting exceeds a threshold, a warning message displays.
- Spotlight and ConnectCAD
. Improvements to the Cable tool and calculating device power consumption make it easier to:
. Add twofers and create daisy chain connections between distributors and electrical devices.
. Calculate the power consumption of electrical devices connected in a daisy chain configuration.

Vectorworks Cloud Services Important Enhancements

1. iOS Nomad app:
- To make it easier for your clients or collaborators to navigate 3D models, you can now create saved views of the model in both the web portal and the Nomad app. The viewer also has a new, easy-to-use presentation mode.
- Nomad now has a new reality capture tool called Object Capture, which takes advantage of the latest iOS technology for creating 3D models of objects and areas up to six square feet.
- Nomad now has a native Vectorworks Cloud Document Reviewer. This allows you to view object information, verify measurements, and add feedback on Vectorworks projects that have been shared with you, even when you don't have access to a desktop computer.
- Nomad has been streamlined and reorganized to improve usability.
2. Vectorworks Odyssey app:
- You can now run Vectorworks Odyssey, the virtual reality viewer app, using the Meta Quest Link app for Windows computers. The computer's processing power provides higher quality graphics and better performance with large models, compared to a standalone headset.
- 3D model features such as shadows, changing light direction, and ambient occlusion are available only on the desktop app.