Education_002 – New Ways of Drawing

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New Ways of Drawing
When you are drawing on your drawing board or even in some CAD programs, you draw with lines (lines, circles and arcs). The tendency is to carry the same practice on when you use VectorWorks.

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It is much easier to maximize VectorWorks’ potential by using objects to draw with, which can be easily edited, for example, doors, windows, rectangles, etc. You could say that VectorWorks is designed to draw with objects.
When you want to draw shapes you may be tempted to use lines and arcs to draw the shape. Always try to draw with solid shapes, rectangles, polygons. I have created a series of exercises that show you how to make complex shapes out of simple shapes by adding the shapes together, or by clipping a portion of a simple shape away to make a complex shape.
It’s very important that you use these new drawing methods to draw your buildings, landscapes or engineering models.
As an example of the first way of drawing watch this first movie. You may think that it is a quick way of drawing, but when you need to make changes it is a slower way to draw.

For an example of the second way to create drawings in VectorWorks watch the movie here. Creating drawings with this method allows you to make changes quickly and allows you to help the client visualize your design.