Education_010 – Creating

Creating 
These exercises are designed to teach you how to use the basic tools in Vectorworks. Some people think of these exercises are too simple for them, so they don’t complete them. This is a mistake. These exercises are designed to show you the different options that are available in each tool.

The things you learn in this exercise will be important regardless of what you do in Vectorworks, so it’s important for you to complete these exercises and understand the tools that they cover.
If you don’t use Vectorworks for a little while it’s also useful to come back and repeat these exercises to refresh your memory on how these tools work.

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Download Imperial exercise file. (Vectorworks 2013 – Professional format)
Download Metric exercise file. (Vectorworks 2013 – Professional format)
Download Imperial exercise file. (Vectorworks 2013 – Education format)
Download Metric exercise file. (Vectorworks 2013 – Education format)

• Open the file called Creating.sta from the exercise folder.

The file is divided up into a series of layers. Each layer has a series of points on it for carrying out specific exercises and instructions for carrying out the exercise. The instructions are listed below and repeated on the drawings. There is a picture of the tool that you are supposed to use for the exercise.
The exercises are designed to teach you how to draw things in VectorWorks. Each tool that you choose in VectorWorks has choices about how you use that tool. The choices are shown on the Tool bar. The purpose of these exercises is to get you to use each mode for each tool, and to learn how to use each tool.
When you have completed the instructions on the first layer go to the layer button and choose the next layer down in the list. Do the same for all the layers until you get to the bottom of the layer list.
Lines to a Point

Lines to a Length

Lines to an Angle

Double Lines
 

Rectangle

Rectangle by Floating Data Bar

Rectangle from Center

Rectangle from Opposite Side

 Rounded Rectangle

Circle

Oval

Arcs

Freehand Tool

Polylines

Triangle

Polygon

Create Polygons From Objects

Double Polygon

Regular Polygon

Spiral

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