• cadmovie_1610-05 – What’s New In Vectorworks 2017 – Part 5

    Plug-in Styles (Doors And Windows) – The new Plug-in Styles is an interesting concept that is a cross between a symbol and a plug in object. The purpose is to allow you to control parts of these plug-in objects while maintaining overall control for other parts.

  • cadmovie_1610-04 – What’s New In Vectorworks 2017 – Part 4

    Story Support (Symbols) – When you place a symbol in a design, you can choose the elevation of that symbol. But you might have a situation where you want most of the symbols to be at the same elevation. If this was the case you could set the elevation of the…

  • cadmovie_1610-03 – What’s New In Vectorworks 2017 – Part 3

    Structural Member – This is a brand-new tool. The structural member tool is designed to be an intelligent object that will know when it joins another structural object. One way of thinking about this is that it’s like walls for structural members, so that when you move a column, the connected…

  • cadmovie_1610-02 – What’s New In Vectorworks 2017 – Part 2

    Project Sharing 2.0 – Project sharing was introduced with Vectorworks 2016. It worked really well, but it did require that all the users be on the same network. this can work fine when you’re in the same office, but it didn’t work well if you weren’t in the same office,…

  • cadmovie_1610-01 – What’s New In Vectorworks 2017 – Part 1

    Resource Manager – When you look at the new Resource Manager, it may look like an updated Resource Browser, but it is much more than that. The Resource Manager has been embedded throughout Vectorworks. this means that whenever you look for a resource, the resource manager will appear showing you the…

  • cadmovie_1609-10 – Quick Concept – Part 10

    Creating A Solar Study – The solar study is extremely useful, allowing you to see the effects of the adjoining buildings, adjoining vegetation, the changing time of day, and the changing season of the year. This information can be extremely useful in helping you to design your project.

  • cadmovie_1609-09 – Quick Concept – Part 9

    Creating A Sun – Later on we going to create a solar study, but before we do that we need to place the sun in the drawing. We have a tool for placing a sun, called the heliodon. This tool allows you to place a sun, set the location, set the…

  • cadmovie_1609-08 – Quick Concept – Part 8

    Creating A Camera View – We need to create a perspective view, and the Renderworks camera is one of the quickest ways to achieve this. The camera view can control the perspective, the depth of field, and the rendering type.