Space Planning and Programming

VectorWorks Architect performs space planning and programming studies, and creates schematic floor plans.

These features can be combined in various ways depending on the required workflow:

To begin the design process, draw the spaces. Reposition and reshape the spaces as needed to develop a schematic floor plan. Then create the walls automatically from those spaces.

Begin with a solid model, and then create the exterior walls from the model.

Create the walls first, and then create the space objects automatically to determine the areas enclosed by the walls.

Import an adjacency matrix that was provided by a client, and automatically create a bubble diagram and a stacking diagram. Reshape and reposition the space objects in the bubble diagram to create a floor plan, and then create the walls automatically from the spaces.

Create the initial schematic design with polylines instead of spaces, and then convert the polylines to spaces.