For lights you can do this is by using different classes for different lights or groups of lights, then having the appropriate class(es) on or off in any particular VP. I do this with different sun angles all the time.
The Vectorworks course for Museum and Exhibit Designers is going really well. The attendees are getting heaps out of the course and having a lot of fun as well. We are 3 sessions into part two of the course. We have imported a DXF/DWG file from the Internet, rescaled it…
This month the Vector-workout Subscription CPD manual will be focusing on building a swimming pool. The manual is currently being written, and as I write the manual, I make the object in Vectorworks to make sure I get the best screen shots. I hope you can see from this image,…
I client has just asked me to explain screen plane, layer plane and 3D plane. To answer them, I created this image. I think it helps.
A friend of mine showed me this trick the other day, and it makes it so easy to look through a web page to find what you want. On my subscriber web site, there is a page with all the back issues. It can take a long time to look…
I have been having a small issue with Windoor (http://www.ozcad.com.au), the magic window and door plug-in from Australia. I had played with the class settings on the doors and windows, and the opening indicators were not being assigned to the class I wanted. The author of windoor, Julian Carr, told…
A friend of mine showed me this trick the other day. It lets you search an entire web page for a word or phrase that you want. An example of this would be looking through my home page. You don’t want to read the descriptions of 50 manuals to find…
I have been playing with custom Renderworks in Vectorworks 2011, and I really like it. The new Renderworks is very subtle, and you have a lot of control over the rendering quality, texture quality, and lighting quality. Wouldn’t it be great to understand how to how to edit the Custom…
I have just been reading a technical board topic, where a Vectorworks file would not open. There was a lot of conversation and effort devoted to the problem, with no solution. The file had been sent to the Vectorworks support person in an uncompressed way, and the email had corrupted…
Today, while I was drawing a plan, and I got frustrated with editing the class attributes. I found I would have to click on the object, then look at the Object Info palette to see the class of the object. Then, open the Organization dialog box, find the class and…