Vectorworks, Inc.

And I knew Marcus because Marcus had worked at J&M and had taught me to draft.

What's draft? Using like CAD, AutoCAD and Vectorworks is the big one.

So he taught me a little bit about drafting when I was in school still.

And yeah, he was looking for a sub and he needed somebody who had a certain level of power license to come in.

And those are a byproduct of the model.

So but at the same stage, while those drawings are a byproduct of the model, if you took the IFC from Revit and put it into another solution, ArchiCAD, for example, or Vectorworks, you could then go and cut the same drawings, but all the annotation isn't there because it wasn't transferred.

Do you see these as lock in as like a strategy? Or do you just see it as a byproduct?

There's a couple of different aspects to it.

Like, there's...

You've got your similar sort of programs, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, Allplan.

I think they can all deliver, um, from what I've seen.

Like, people are using them successfully.

Now it's called the Design Intelligence Platform.

And this is our answer, because we thought we cannot, we, we should not add this to Archicad as an add-on, which is also a possibility, but we should start from scratch because we're not alone on Earth, and even in the Nemetschek Group, it's not us alone.

So we also have Allplan and we have Vectorworks tools.

So we need to have something with new technology as a next generation tool, and this is now the Design Intelligence Platform.

It is entering our lives in, in first steps.

Um, I have a colleague who's using AI to, uh, he's in a rep house, um, and whatever the latest version of all the rigging modules that he's plunking into the three venues that they have, um, doesn't interact well with the layers on Vectorworks, so he created an AI, um, process for them to convert all of those new rigging modules so that they now work and play well with the rest of the Vectorworks layers.

So I thought that was a [laughs] that's a really tedious thing to have to do manually, and he was able to automate that using AI, which I think is fantastic.

Uh, I have all kinds of ideas about ha- how AI can be used, or for the manufacturers to use that to let me get the data I need out of the database of the lighting console, 'cause there's stuff that I still track manually for moving lights and color palettes that, that the computer has and could do, and you could either have the engineers figure out a way to pull that, extract that, or you could use AI potentially as a way to do that.

Elena, on the university level, is it, like, a thing?

I definitely have some, like, personal qualms about AI use.

Um, I think that there's some limited and narrow applications for, like, locally run models, um, and certain applications for coding plug-ins, uh, like, uh, Dawn talked about in regards to a Vectorworks plug-in.

Um, but I think on a larger scale, I, I really don't see the use case, um, especially even in terms of research.