Vectorworks Nomad

The Vectorworks Nomad app allows you to access your Vectorworks documents wherever you are—whenever you need them—with your mobile device. It gives you more freedom not only to share files, but also to make design decisions from any location. Changes you make to Vectorworks files are automatically synchronized to your private cloud library, allowing you to browse and share your latest designs from any web-enabled device.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Productivity	Free	Vectorworks, Inc.	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Vectorworks Cloud Services saves time by freeing up local computing power. Use cloud technology to automate and decouple resource-heavy workflows, shifting calculations needed to generate sections, elevations, renderings, and BIM data to the cloud.

Whether you're in a meeting, on the job site, or on vacation, the Vectorworks Nomad app allows you to view, mark up, share, and synchronize your Vectorworks files across your devices and with your colleagues—all from the convenience of your iPhone or iPad.

• Interact with a native iOS application that supports common touch gestures
• View and navigate 3D renderings of Vectorworks files in the cloud library, with optional 3D backgrounds
• Extend your cloud library through integration with Dropbox
• Share files with clients or collaborators
• Mark up PDF files with Text, Freehand, Oval, Rectangle, and Line tools and save the marked up files to the cloud library

The Vectorworks Nomad app is a part of Vectorworks Cloud Services, and is available to anyone who registers for a free account or anyone who is a member of the Vectorworks Service Select subscription program. Vectorworks Service Select members have access to an expanded feature set.

Subscription advantages:
• Increased storage capacity
• Manual or scheduled Sheet layer to PDF cloud processing
• Cloud Publish within Vectorworks
• Ability to measure objects in the PDF drawings generated on the cloud.

Operating Prerequisites:
• Vectorworks files uploaded to your cloud library or Dropbox

Reviews

Don’t waste your time
Japanajew

I downloaded this to view VW files on the phone without asking for a PDF. This app can’t even do that. It keeps crashing before opening the file so I can’t view anything.

This is a real pain
Pacobriente

Pay this company thousands for their software, just want to be able to view a file on my phone. A serious pain to work with. Save yourself the trouble—avoid!

Worthless
AMP9784

Had such high hopes for this. All I want is a mobile viewer of a 2D VWX plan and this app can’t even do that. Crashes when trying to open any file. Please make an app that works.

Excellent
Stanrarchie

Must have app and service for Vectorworks Users.

Been waiting for YEARS! I'll keep waiting?
Sospitis

I've been waiting for Nemetschek to release an iOS viewing app for several years, it seemed like a no-brainer. It's very sad that I can't get any functionality without a subscription. I am confident that should I ever get a subscription, this app would be lovely. However this strategy seems to be turning away new users not inviting them in the way the competition has chosen. For now I will keep saving PDFs to Dropbox for my iOS viewing needs. As a loyal user of more than a decade, it's getting harder and harder to be a vocal disciple of Vectorworks. As a side note it's quite frustrating to realize that Nemetschek allows for distributed computing if you want to pay them, but I can't have my own render farm. Again, I know a certain competitor that would allow me to utilize my idle 60 cores and hundred+ gigabytes of RAM.

Very unfortunate
Theatre User

I am very sad that there is no support for educational users with this. I do realize that for educational purposes VW is inexpensive, or free, but in my academic shop I was eagerly awaiting an app for when I don't want to haul my laptop, or drawings around to the theatres. This is especially troubling since the educational license locks out students after graduating. This just screws the faculty working on educational projects.

Very Promising
Roobst

The best thing that Vectorworks cloud provides is the ability to offload sheet generation and VP renderings to the cloud. This is good step in the right direction. Only problem is you have to be on subscription- not unlike what autodesk provides.