Online Vectorworks Landmark Course

Are you mystified by CAD? This is ideal for working designers with no CAD training, or for those who aren’t using its full potential.

Course Instructor


Duncan Heather

Duncan Heather


The online Vectorworks Tutorials are ideal for those using Vectorworks 2020 to 2024, especially if you’re a working landscape or garden designer and have missed out on CAD training. They’re also invaluable if you need a refresher course or are not making the most of its potential. You can now rent the software on a monthly basis, and, if you are in full-time education, you may be eligible for a free student software* licence while you study. Many people find CAD difficult to learn in a traditional classroom. It’s easy to get left behind. This is where online learning comes into its own. You’ll never feel out of your depth. As you become familiar with the tools, you’ll be able to quickly transform 2D objects into 3D drawings, change and resize objects, and use hard landscaping tools to create custom patios, pathways and other landscape elements. After that, we add the plants. You’ll learn how to create and edit your own plant definitions, how to design a schedule and place plants in the landscape according to seasonality and bloom time. *student software status cannot be guaranteed.
  • GD1300 | VectorWorks Basics (Free Beginners Course)
  • User Interface
    • GD1301 | User interface
    • GD1302 | Workspaces & Documents
    • GD1303 | Navigation VectorWorks
  • Creating 2D Geometry
    • GD1304 | Basic Interactions
    • GD1305 | Snapping Tools
    • GD1306 | Selection Tool
    • GD1307 | The Line Tool
    • GD1308 | The Rectangle Tool
    • GD1309 | The Circle Tool
    • GD1310 | The Ark Tool
    • GD1311 | The Polygone Tool
    • GD1312 | The Poly Line Tool
    • GD1313 | Regular Polygone Tool
    • GD1314 | The Double Line Tool
    • GD1315 | The Double Polygon Tool
    • GD1316 | The Text Tool
  • Edit, Modify & Duplicate
    • GD1317 | Modifying 2D Shapes
    • GD1318 | Object Stacking Order
    • GD1319 | The Split Tool
    • GD1320 | The Trim Tool
    • GD1321 | The Clip Tool
    • GD1322 | Resizing Objects
    • GD1323 | The Reshape Tool
    • GD1324 | The Offset Tool
    • GD1325 | The Fillet Tool
    • GD1326 | The Conect/Combine Tool
    • GD1327 | The Compose Command
    • GD1328 | Add Surface Command
    • GD1329 | Clip Surface Command
    • GD1330 | Intersect Surface Command
    • GD1331 | Attributes Palette
  • Duplicating Objects
    • GD1332 Duplication Methods
    • GD1333 Copy & Paste
    • GD1334 Duplicate Command
    • GD1335 Drag & Duplicate
    • GD1336 Duplicate Array Command
    • GD1337 Duplicate Along Path
    • GD1338 Rotate Tool
    • GD1339 Mirror Tool
    • GD1340 Move By Points Tool
  • Resources
    • 1341 Attributes & The Recourse Manager
    • GD1343 Tile Resources
    • GD1342 Hatches 
    • GD1344 Attribute Mapping Tool
    • GD1345 Favorites Folder
    • GD1346 Resource Organisation
  • File Organisation
    • GD1347 Autosave Preferences
    • GD1348 Introduction to Design Layers
    • GD1349 Design Layers
    • GD1350 Layer Visability
    • GD1351  Layer Scale
    • GD1352  Layer Stacking Order
    • GD1353  Saved Views
    • GD1354  Introduction To Classes
    • GD1355 Creating & Editing Classes
    • GD1356 Class Attributes
    • GD1357 Class Visabilities
  • Presentation
    • GD1358 Introduction to Sheet Layers
    • GD1359 Creating & Eding Sheet Layers
    • GD1360 Sheet Page Setup
    • GD1361 Title Block Tool
    • GD1362 Introduction To Viewports
    • GD1363 Creating Sheet Layer Viewports
    • GD1364 Duplicating & Editing Viewports
    • GD1365 Basic View & Render Settings
    • GD1366 Viewport Crop
    • GD1367 Viewport Navigation
    • GD1368  Introduction to Annotations (Labelling & Dimensions)
    • GD1369 Callout Tool
    • GD1370 Drawing Label Tool
    • GD1371 Constraind Linier Dimension Tool
    • GD1372 Unconstrianed Linier Dimension Tool
    • GD1373 Angular Dimention Tool
    • GD1374 Ark Length Dimension Tool
    • GD1375 Radial Dimension Tool
  • Printing & Publication
    • GD1376  Introduction to Printing & Publishing
    • GD1377 Print & Export to PDF
    • GD1378 Batch Publish
  • GD1400 | Introduction to CAD for Landscape Designers
    • Landmark 2024/5 Overview
    • GD1401 Introduction To Vectorworks
    • GD1402 | Setting up the Drawing Area
    • GD1402A  Introduction to the Snapping Palette
    • GD1404 | Drawing basic shapes
    • GD1405 | Drawing irregular shapes
    • GD1406 | Understanding surfaces
    • GD1407 | Using X and Y cordinates
    • GD1408 | Resizing and reshaping objects
    • GD1409 | Move by point tool
    • GD1410 | Duplicate along a path
    • GD1411 | The attributes palette
    • GD1412 | Text attributes and labeling
    • GD1413 | Dimensioning your drawing
    • GD1414 | Layers & classes
    • GD1415 | Sheet Layers
    • GD1416 | Viewports
    • GD1417 | Additional notes on viewports
    • GD1418 | Additional Viewports
    • GD1419 | Printing
    • GD1420 | Importing a site survey
    • GD1421 | Drawing up the site survey
    • GD1422 | Plotting existing trees
    • GD1423-5 The Hardscape Tool, Reports & Tags
    • GD1428 | Adding furniture from the resource manager
    • GD1429 | Introduction to planting in Vectorworks
    • GD1430 | Customising plants using default plant data
    • GD1431 | Plant definition graphics
    • GD1432 | The plant tool
    • GD1433 | Creating new plants
    • GD1434 | Landscape tool: bulbs & wild flowers
    • GD1435 | Creating a plant report
    • GD1436 Title Block Layout
  • Planting 
    • GD1441 | Placing plants
    • GD1442 | Plant definition settings
    • GD1443 | Plant Instance Settings
    • GD1444 | Plant Tag Images
    • GD1445 | Plant Tags

Course Information

Difficulty: Beginner

Course Instructor

Duncan Heather (Principal) Duncan Heather (Principal) Author

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£360.00

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GD1300 | VectorWorks Basics (Free Beginners Course)

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