Five Vectorworks Features to Improve Interior Design Presentations

High-calibre presentations and layouts of your interior designs are crucial to winning projects. In a competitive industry, how you communicate your vision can make all the difference when pitching to clients, assembling a portfolio, and collaborating.

In this article, you’ll learn about five features in Vectorworks Architect that improve the quality of your interior design presentation layouts. Vectorworks Architect has all the tools you need within a single design software — there’s no back and forth needed between design software like SketchUp and AutoCAD to other programs like Photoshop, InDesign, etc.

1. Organising Your Presentation Layouts with Guides

Guides in Vectorworks Architect offer your layouts structure by helping align drawings and text elements for structure and consistency.

Guides allow you to create custom underlay grid types such as baseline, column, modular, manuscript, and composition grids help maintain alignment of your images, text, and technical drawings. These formatting elements ultimately polish up your presentation layouts and guide a client’s attention for better readability.

Importantly, your Guides can also be saved as a part of a template for future presentations, saving time and standardizing the quality of your presentation layouts.

2. Branding on Every Page with Title Blocks

Title blocks in Vectorworks are vital elements placed on sheet layers to automatically display important project details like the project name, drawing title, sheet number, revision history, and company branding.

Use the Title Block Border tool to place a title block on a sheet layer, choosing from pre-made styles or creating a custom design.

Beyond automation, title blocks enhance the professionalism of your presentation and reinforce your brand identity for clients.

3. Cropping to Focus on What Matters

Editing images in your layout presentations with the Edit Crop command is another great way to highlight the important elements of your interior designs.

With this feature, you can remove unwanted portions from images, focus attention on specific areas, and prepare your images for more polished presentations.

Within the Edit Crop mode, you’re able to use any closed 2D object to define the crop area — whether it be a rectangle, circle, or polyline.

4. Image Effects that Wow

Image Effects can boost your presentations, as well, helping your design images have greater depth and visual interest without having to leave Vectorworks Architect.

A black and white filter, for example, can create an emotional impact with a dramatic contrast between light and shadow.

Click here to watch a video that dives further into Image Effects.

5. Colour Management Magic

Lastly, you should consider the use of colour in your presentation layouts. Vectorworks Architect supports CMYK, RGB, HSV, HEX, Pantone, and paint manufacturer colour options — helping you create cohesive color palettes and visual harmony. These colours can be customized to fit any branding, office standard, or personal preference.

There’s also a direct integration with NCS Colour, a Gold Partner in the Vectorworks Partner Network, at your disposal.

NCS+ Pro subscription simplifies your colour selection processes by allowing you to select, find, and fine-tune the selected colour directly in your Vectorworks design environment. You can explore over 2000 colours in the NCS colour library and easily adjust the hue or the nuance of the colour to find the perfect colour for your presentation layouts.