About the Author

This website has been created by Mark Doubleday. Mark is a Lighting Designer who works mostly in theatre, opera, and dance. Mark has long been an advocate for CAD in the entertainment and events industry, having started his career in a lighting design office in Covent Garden, London hand-drafting light plots for trade shows and West End musicals.

Mark has been a user of Vectorworks since 2005, having previously worked with AutoCAD.

Alongside his professional Lighting Design practice, Mark has lectured in Vectorworks and Lighting Design in many performing arts colleges and universities in the UK and currently lectures at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.

About the Video content

All the Video content has been created using versions of Vectorworks from 2020 to the current release. All the Tools and Menu Commands are unmodified so what you see in the Video content should reasonably represent the capabilities of the software as of the version the content was made with. In more recent versions, some of the Tools and Commands may have had their functionality enhanced and it is also possible that some functionality has also been deprecated. If you notice anything of this nature, please get in touch using the form below.

For the most part, the Workspaces being used are either the Spotlight or Designer Workspaces. I have customised the Interactive Appearance Settings a small amount to allow for a little more clarity and also reflect my own working practice. The settings are as follows:

  • Object Highlighting for Active and Preselection of Layers is set to Green. 
  • Object Highlighting for Inactive and Preselection of Inactive Layers is set to Red.
  • Background for 3D Views and Perspective (Horizon Sky) has been set to White.
  • Background for Perspective Ground (Horizon Ground)has been set to a very pale Gray.

About the Glossary

There are over four hundred glossary entries for the content on this site and many more will be added. All terms or phrases associated with a glossary entry will be lightly underlined. Hover over the term and you will see an explanation.

Currently the glossary is not available on mobile devices, but tablets, laptops ad desktops have the feature enabled.

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