Welcome to Vivien

This section provides an overview of the features in Vivien.

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Welcome to Vivien

Vivien Virtual Event Designer is an easy-to-use and completely integrated software solution for planners and designers who want to take complete control of their designs from start to finish. It allows event designers and planners to create presentations that include 2D and 3D renderings, detailed floor plans, and lists containing accurate rental and venue services. A comprehensive library of 3D items and a complete array of tools enables complete customization.

Vivien Virtual Event Designer includes the following features and benefits:

Easy-to-use 2D and 3D (CAD) diagramming
Intuitive GUI construction for efficient workflow
Basic and advanced drawing tools
Multiple working views including: front, back, sides, top, 3D, and Virtual View
Custom tab window layouts
Excellent zooming and maneuvering abilities
Camera set-up for increased visualization
Importing of existing CAD drawings (.dwg,.dxf)
Importing of Google SketchUp files (.skp)
Importing of Wavefront/Filmbox/Collada/3DS files (.obj, .fbx, .dae, .3ds)
Venue Tools for custom room creation
Seating Tool for efficient seating arrangements
Comprehensive 3D library of chairs, tables, staging, décor, banquet, people, AV and miscellaneous items
Guest Management functionality
Assigning Guest Names to table/seats
Importing/Exporting Guest lists from spreadsheet files
Reports for all Guest Management, seating assignment and catering needs
Truss Tool for staging and set design
Built-in database for event resource tracking
Plotting and printing of accurate room layouts
Realistic renderings of event designs
Light Tool for basic lighting functions and looks
Compatible with WYSIWYG
Exports to 2D/3D DXF and DWG, Excel, BMP, JPEG, and various other graphic formats
Tent Tool for easily creating tent venues
Pipe and Drape Wizard for adding custom pipe and drape to your drawing
Tools for quickly changing the color, texture, and material of almost every object in Vivien
Projector Wizard for quickly adding projectors, screens and video to your drawings
Camera paths that give a realistic fly-through of the event space

What’s new?

Vivien 2022 contains the following new features, each of which is described in further detail in this guide.

Deleting All Custom Gobos at Once: Using the Gobo Wizard

Building Complex and Realistic Truss Structures with Truss Pieces: Using truss from Library

Batch Export for Cameras: Exporting_images from Virtual View

Select from Selected: Selecting objects

Convert Arcs to semi-circular/-elliptical Surfaces: Converting_objects to other object types

Convert Splines to Pipes: Converting_object to other object types

Additions to Snap Options: Snaps

Vertex and Face counts of 3D objects in Tooltips: General_tab section in User_Options