I was making a report to calculate wall areas. I found a new function to calcluate the area of a wall component by its name. =COMPAREABYNAME(C=’Wall-External’, ‘cladding’). You used to be able to find the area of the wall by its component index number, but I like this one much…
There are several ways to make a viewport, but in this tip we will look at the easiest way. Draw a shape around the area that you want in your viewport. Go to the Menu bar and choose View > Create Viewport. Fill in the preferences for your viewport and…
When you are dealing with a node in Marionette you have to supply an input. The node then does something to the input and the result is the output. If this node is part of a network, then the output will be carried to the next node. So you could…
I used to find it a challenge to locate the wall style I want to edit in the resource browser – I usually have too many wall styles. In Vectorworks 2016, if you have a wall selected, you can edit the wall directly from the object Info palette. Click on…
The most efficient way to create drawings is to use viewports. Viewports allow you to create as many plans, sections, elevations, and details on the same sheet. The viewports can be any scale, which allows you mix up the viewports on the sheet and have plans and details on the…
The basic concept of marionette is the concept that it is a network of nodes which do something and wires which carry the information. Each node requires an input. The node then carries out some instruction, and then outputs the result. Join us for a webinar on this: http://www.novedge.com/webinar/174
I am a big fan of sketch rendering in Vectorworks, not because it tricks your client into thinking that you have drawn by hand, but because it allows the client to see where you are in the design process. However, the sketch rendering styles that ship with Vectorworks do not suit…
Vectorworks 2016 has a new concept called Marionette. Marionette has been described as a visual scripting language. So let me explain that. What this means is that you have the ability to create a script using a visual system. In simple terms, you would start by creating something, then…
If you assign the textures to the wall components, you have a better way to make sure that you get the correct texture on the wall. The other way to assign textures is to assign textures to the overall part of the wall. The downside of using overall, is that…
You can apply sketch rendering to the entire view, but you can also apply sketch rendering object by object. If you select an object, then go to the Render pane of the Object Info pallete, you can choose what sketch style you want to apply to each object. You will…