I had a discussion the other day with a client. He really loves using the duplicate command from the Edit menu. He especially likes the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+D (Windows), or Command+D (Macintosh). But he only likes to use this command when the object does NOT jump up to the right.
I have really enjoyed reading this book. This book questions the principle of success being down to individual effort. Gladwell uses Canadian ice hockey as an example of success, and how success is partly controlled by other circumstances other than your own natural talent. In the example Gladwell uses, success…
I had a question today form a client wanting to know if she can use the general notes tool to create general notes with bullet points rather than the numbers that are so common. I do not know an easy way to substitute the bullet points for the numbers, but…
I had a question yesterday form a friend about showing thick lines in Vectorworks. When you draw objects in Vectorworks, you use the line weights you want for printing. But the challenge can be that what looks good on paper, does not look good on the screen. Normally, this is…
I have been making movies and posting them on YouTube for some time. I was pleased to see that today I have passed 150000 total views on all my movies. I’m glad that there are some people that like them. See what others are looking at http://www.youtube.com/archoncad – Posted using…
Columbia, Md. (Oct. 5, 2010) – Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. announced today that PanzerCAD has released the 2011 version of its CameraMatch plug-in to be compatible with the Vectorworks® 2011 line of software products. The CameraMatch 2011 plug-in allows a user to easily align a 3D model view to a photograph….
One of the new features in Vectorworks 2011 is planar graphics. This will allow you to draw graphic objects in any plane. I have been thinking about this, and I now believe that calling the objects planar graphics does not describe the objects. I will be calling them Planar Objects…
One of my favorite apps for the iPad has just been updated. GoodReader is a very good application for reading PDF files. I have been using it for some time now, and I have tried several PDF reader on the iPhone and iPad.
The online user group, which I call Short Sharp Training (Monthly) is looking at the new Vectorworks 2011 this month. There has been a lot of online resources looking at the new features of Vectorworks 2011. I do not want to repeat these, I want to look at about 11…
A lot of people ask me if they should upgrade to Vectorworks 2011. Is it worth the upgrade they ask? I’m very happy about the changes and new techniques in Vectorworks 2011, and I think these will save you a lot of time. I guess you have to ask what…