COLUMBIA, MD, Sep 8, 2025 – Vectorworks and DIALux have formed a partnership that links Vectorworks’ BIM platform with DIALux’s windows-based lighting simulation tools. By using the open IFC standard, both companies aim to streamline collaboration, enable data exchange, and provide engineers a connected, data-driven workflow.
“Lighting impacts not just aesthetics but also performance, comfort, and compliance,” said Vectorworks vice president of product management Vlado Stanev. “Our partnership with DIALux builds on our commitment to open IFC workflows, empowering users to leverage advanced lighting simulations and manufacturer-specific data, then bring that intelligence back into their Vectorworks projects – ensuring seamless data exchange, driving accuracy, maintaining compliance, and strengthening collaboration across disciplines.”
Leveraging the IFC file format, this collaboration enables architects, interior, landscape architects and designers to exchange files between their Vectorworks models and DIALux’s lighting design capabilities.
Designers can access products from more than 450 lighting manufacturers, perform daylighting studies, and conduct lighting analyses to support design decisions. They can import analysis data into Vectorworks for documentation. This supports lighting code and standards, reduces errors, and improves coordination, which can lead to faster decisions and an effective design process.
Source: Vectorworks
About Vectorworks
Vectorworks Inc., headquartered in Columbia, MD, has been a BIM software company since its founding in 1985. Serving industries such as architecture, landscape architecture, and entertainment, the company offers a suite of products tailored to professionals in these fields. Operating as a subsidiary of the Nemetschek Group, Vectorworks has expanded its global presence, serving clients in 85 countries. As of 2024, the company employs approximately 300 individuals worldwide. Over the years, Vectorworks has garnered industry recognition, including being named Architectural Design Software of the Year at the 2024 Construction Computing Awards.
About DIAL
DIAL, headquartered in Lüdenscheid, Germany, has focused on lighting design and building automation since 1989. The company introduced its DIALux platform in 1994, which has grown into the global market leader for lighting design software. More than 750,000 professionals worldwide use DIALux, available in 26 languages, to plan about 900,000 projects each month. The software enables designers, engineers, architects and planners to calculate, visualize and optimize indoor and outdoor lighting with products from more than 440 luminaire manufacturers. DIAL employs about 100 people across offices in Germany, the United States, Asia and Italy. Alongside software development, the company offers professional training through the DIAL Academy, which provides courses in lighting design, lighting technology, lighting control and building automation. Development is financed through manufacturer memberships, including hundreds of global lighting companies, and subscriptions to DIALux Pro.