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.
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 mobile device.
• View and navigate 3D models of Vectorworks files in the cloud library
• View 3D models of Vectorworks files in a real-world setting, using augmented reality (AR) technology (requires an AR-compatible device)
• View rendered panoramic images or animation movies of Vectorworks files
• Extend your cloud library through integration with third-party cloud storage providers
• 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, as well as all Vectorworks Service Select members. Guest access is available for viewing shared files without creating an account.
Vectorworks Service Select members have access to additional features, such as:
• Increased storage capacity
• Manual or scheduled Sheet layer to PDF cloud processing
• Cloud processing options in Vectorworks
• Ability to measure objects in the PDF drawings generated on the cloud
• And more ...
Operating Prerequisites
• Vectorworks files uploaded to your Vectorworks Cloud Services storage library, or to an integrated third-party cloud storage provider
iPhone 15 pro, iOS 17.1.2This is also the first time I the iPad Pro that all the cloud drives are disconnected except Dropbox. It won’t allow me to add them back either. I love this app, please don’t die Nomad.
Much has changed
ArchitectVW
This app has changed significantly over the past view years. While I still can’t open a VWX file, I can do a number of things related to capturing existing conditions while on site. There are so many options including photos to 3D and Room Plan. And let’s be real, why would I open a full Vectorworks file on my phone or iPad mini? I don’t need all that. While I haven’t had a use of the 3D viewer just yet, I can myself pulling this up to have a quick conversation with a client when at a lunch meeting. I’m waiting for support of review/markups that I can send back to Vectorworks much like what I can do on the cloud web portal. That will make this app even more useful.
Developer Response
As of September 2016, everyone is allowed to register for a free non-subscription account to use Vectorworks Cloud Services. Although, the cloud rendering-specific capabilities are only available to Vectorworks Service Select subscribers.
If I were Vectorworks I’d be ashamed of this
Mikezots
It’s a Vectorworks app that can’t open a Vectorworks file! So any notes I add will be on a .pdf file, not in my .vwx file! So I need two different files because I went to the job site to check a measurement? I can already mark up pdf files on my iPad with other apps, more elegantly and with less effort than this! If i’m showing a project in 3D, I’ll use my portable computer in vwx. Not with this. A problem in search of a solution showing a real lack of understanding by the devs. This should open .vwx files, at least simple ones, and let me do field editing when checking dimensions etc. It could create a .nomad layer or something so I could not mess anything up, but could use my edits once the file was on my computer.
Please add a .vwx viewer
J Carr
This is an app that should not exist😭Hard to believe there is not a vwx viewer and harder to believe that time was wasted on AR capture that doesn’t work and crashes a brand new 2024 iPad Pro, and a very inaccurate room measurement AR tool and 3D generator that looks cool like a video game and sort of works but is pretty useless for actual architecture work. Some of the other features like being able to import and view crude walkthroughs and models and move around are nice but generally this app does not deserve the Vectorworks name.
Bug fixes and stability enhancements.
Version 14.2
The developer, Vectorworks, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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