For Vectorworks CEO Biplab Sarkar, the Vectorworks Design Summit is about awareness, both in terms of the company’s products and users’ own design capabilities. The event, which has been taking place for the past four years, began as a means of informing the world, including potential customers and students, about the power of the firm’s software platform. By now, though, the event has become a learning opportunity for Vectorworks users.
Vectorworks CEO Biplab Sarkar giving his keynote talk at the Design Summit.
“It has evolved in the last two or three years, resulting in the tagline you see at the event: ‘the ultimate training experience.’ There’s a lot of training going on,” Sarkar said. This includes several rooms filled to the brim with attendees and computers. Some sessions are so popular that there are 150 users at 150 laptops preloaded with Vectorworks 2019.
All CAD software requires some amount of training for elements that can’t be learned just by browsing through menus and windows. While videos and tutorials are hosted online, independent classrooms and instructors teach the tools in the physical world. Vectorworks is in the process of consolidating all of its learning materials online into a single learning system, which will be launched early next year. The Learning Management System will progress over time to have its own online courses and certification process.
That will clearly assist in continuing education for existing users…