G2 Vendor Directory

Vectorworks Spotlight

by Vectorworks, Inc.

24

Reviews

4.5

Star rating

#5

Rank in Other CAD

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Collaboration
  • Team Collaboration
  • Easy Collaboration
  • Ease of Use

Cons

    Traffic & LLM citations

    Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for Vectorworks Spotlight.

    Page views and citations · Vectorworks Spotlight

    Source: G2 review data

    Winning from

    Based on reviewers who said they switched from another product.

    Key stats

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    67

    Small Business

    3

    Adoption by company size

    SegmentShare of reviews
    Small Business58.3%
    Mid-Market16.7%
    Enterprise25.0%

    Quarterly history

    QuarterReviewsStar rating
    2025 Q215.0

    Satisfaction ratings

    Ease of Use7.6
    Ease of Setup8.6
    Quality of Support8.6
    Meets Requirements9.1

    What reviewers say

    A must for entertainment drafting

    5.0

    “This is the industry standard for CAD in my industry and makes it easy to collaborate.”

    Technical Director

    Best in class tool for modeling, drawing, graphics and presentation

    3.5

    “This is one of the best tool for creative modeling. The precision drawing feature helps you take care of the minute details with high levels of precision. When it comes to graphics this software works elegantly. I would highly recommend it to my teammates.”

    Software Engineer

    Ubiquitous but glitchy

    3.5

    “Vectorworks Spotlight is the widely accepted industry standard for lighting, projections, and sound design in live entertainment. It can also generate XML files that can be read and modified by third party applications to extract the data attached to objects in the Vectorworks dr”

    Light Board Programmer