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  • cadmovie1605_07 – Project Sharing – Saving

    • June 15, 2016
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    • jonathan

    Saving – Because of the way that Vectorworks are structured the Working Files and the Project Files, saving has to be dealt with in a slightly different way.

  • cadmovie1605_06 – Project Sharing – Checking Out A Layer

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    Checking Out A Layer – The basic strategy of sharing is checking out a layer. This means that you will have to organise your work so that users can check out the required layers. It was announced at the Vectorworks Design Summit 2016 that the next iteration of project sharing will…

  • cadmovie1605_04 – Project Sharing – Setting Up a Project for Sharing

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    Setting Up a Project for Sharing – Setting up a project for Project Sharing is reasonably straightforward, but before you commit to Project Sharing, ensure that the project is set up correctly with stories, layers, classes, and resources. While you are able to make changes to these later, it will…

  • cadmovie1605_03 – Project Sharing – Referencing DXF/DWG Files

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    Referencing DXF/DWG Files – Import the drawing from the consultant. Check it for accuracy. Then reference the consultant drawing to your project. When you get a revised drawing, import it into a new document and save it with the same name as the old consultant’s drawing, overwriting the old file. When you…

  • cadmovie1605_02 – Project Sharing – Referencing PDF Files

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    Referencing PDF Files – As with image files, PDF files can be drag-and-dropped into a Vectorworks file, or you can use the Import PDF… command. In either case when you import a PDF file, you have the choice of whether to import the file directly or whether to reference the file.

  • cadmovie1605_01 – Project Sharing – Referencing Image Files

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    Referencing Image Files – When you import an image file you can choose to have the image file placed directly in the drawing, or you can choose to reference the image file. Why would you prefer one method over the other? If you are working with others and they are updating…

  • cadmovie1604_15 – Subdivision Modeling – Part 15

    • April 8, 2016
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    • jonathan

    Chicago Bean (Cloud Gate) Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. this culture has been used by Vectorworks as the icon for the Vectorworks design summit being…

  • cadmovie1604_14 – Subdivision Modeling – Part 14

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    • jonathan

    Sunscreen In this exercise we want to create a curving sunscreen. This exercise uses subdivisions modelling along with some standard 3D modelling (subtract solid) to give the desired result.

  • cadmovie1604_13 – Subdivision Modeling – Part 13

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    • jonathan

    Creating a Bath In this exercise we going to create a bath. This exercise comes from one of the 3D modelling special interest groups where the user wanted to create an egg shaped bath to make some specific dimensions. One way of creating this bath is to use cross sections…

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