Academic Licenses

We'll provide the tools. You provide the inspiration.

Vectorworks Designer is the software for today's students—tomorrow's designers. It's comprehensive, easy to use, and equally at ease with 3D modelling, 2D graphics, and technical drawings. And unlike many other CAD and modelling programs, Vectorworks works equally well on Mac and PC. 

Resolve Software Solutions provides a full range of software and training resources for students and academic institutions. Free student versions, special pricing for schools and universities, and student discounts for training materials and seminars are all available.

Free Student Software

Vectorworks Designer with RenderWorks, our top-of-the-line product, is available at no cost to full-time students in a design program using CAD. To apply for your free student software, sign up on our student portal using the link below.

Academic Licenses

Universities, colleges and high schools can all take advantage of our academic software program, with highly affordable lab licenses and instructor copies of Vectorworks.

As a teaching tool, Vectorworks is unmatched:

  • ease of use and a quick learning curve for both instructor and student mean that you focus more on learning outcomes and less on teaching software commands;
  • Vectorworks has the greatest versatility of any design program you might choose for your program; our academic customers teach basic drafting, architecture, residential design and construction, landscape architecture, theatre lighting and scenic design, museum studies. It's all in one package!
  • network licenses mean your IT manager can deploy Vectorworks for use in more than one lab;
  • since the student version of Vectorworks is available for free, your students will be able to work on assignments on their own, even if lab time is limited;
  • and perhaps most importantly, you'll be introducing your students to software already used by award-winning Canadian designers, part of the community of over 400,000 Vectorworks users worldwide.

Contact our product specialists for an evaluation copy and an online demonstration of Vectorworks.