"BIM" is an acronym than stands for Building Information Modeling. BIM is a methodology or process of designing, "drawing", detailing and connecting information to a building such that a project has lots of data attached to the actual building parts that are created.
Vectorworks most certainly can do BIM. Vectorworks does BIM very well.
BIM is where most design, especially architectural projects, is heading. BIM is not difficult to do in Vectorworks. You can start doing BIM in small, simple ways and build up your use of it. (In fact, if you are designing with specific products or material in mind, you already have the "I" in BIM figured out. After that it's simply a matter of adding that Information to your project.)
It is important to keep in mind that while BIM is often associated with Autodesk's Revit application, Revit is NOT BIM. Revit is simply one of many applications that can do BIM.
In order to prepare to start doing BIM, Vectorworks has created this Strategic Planning Guide for Adopting BIM:
And the BIM Manager Guide to Resource Management with Vectorworks:
For more information about Vectorworks and BIM, please see this website.
If you would like information about Vectorworks’ IFC features, which is how you would exchange files with other openBIM compliant applications, such as Revit, Archicad, etc please see this information.
In addition, this guide on Sharing your Model with IFC is very useful:
