I came here to see if anyone else is using Vectorworks Landmark for their landscape designs. In the process, I went to Aspire’s website to confirm the name of the software, as I remembered Vectorworks and Aspire having some sort of partnership/integration in the past. However, it appears that may no longer be the case.
I’m curious if anyone has more information on that, but my main question is:
How are you integrating your design work with Aspire to make the design-to-estimating process more efficient?
Currently, we use Vectorworks for design and Aspire for estimating. Without an integration—or even a straightforward export/import process—we find ourselves manually transferring the quantities and values from Vectorworks into Aspire to build the estimate.
That creates quite a bit of duplicate work, and it becomes especially cumbersome when:
- A design changes and quantities need to be updated
- We want to provide multiple design/pricing options to a client or prospect
- We go through several rounds of revisions
- Quantities already calculated in Vectorworks have to be manually recreated in Aspire
Ideally, we’d love a workflow where the quantities generated through the design process in Vectorworks could flow into Aspire while still allowing Aspire to handle our items, kits, production factors, pricing, margins, etc.
For those of you designing in Vectorworks—or another landscape design platform—how are you handling this today? Have you found an efficient workflow, integration, export/import process, API solution, or other workaround?
If anyone has figured out a better way to bridge design → takeoff → estimating in Aspire, we’re all ears!