Education_011 – Editing and Modifying

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Editing 
These exercises are designed to teach you how to use the basic editing tools and commands. 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.

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 concepts 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)
Download Metric exercise file. (Vectorworks 2013)

  • Open the file called Editing.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.

Eyedropper
Attribute Mapping
Reshape
Rotate
Mirror
Split
Connect/Combine
Trim
Fillet
Chamfer
Offset
Clip
Move by Points
Move
Duplicate Array
Stretch
Compose/Decompose
Polygon Smoothing
Align/Distribute
Join Command
Add Surface
Clip Surface
Intersect Surface
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