For a long time we wanted to have the ability to automatically hatch our elevations. There are several workarounds, but no one had yet figured out away to make the hatching on our are elevations automatic.
Vectorworks 2013 introduced this concept called the Clip Cube. The clip cube is a 3-D modeling technique that allows you to hide all the 3-D objects outside of the clip cube.
In Vectorworks 2011 you could snap to objects that were not on the working plane. In Vectorworks 2013 there is now a preference that controls whether you can snap to points that are not on the working plane.
I saw a discussion recently on the Vectorworks community board where a Vectorworks user was trying to get an outline of the property onto the site model.
Sometimes you forget your password, or you have trouble logging in, so what should you do? The answer is that there is an option on the login page you to reset your password.
I had a client call today, he was having trouble tidying up the elevations of a house. He knows how to use most of the tools, but he was not just the tools in the right order to get a fast result.
You can use the Text Along a Path command to add curved text to a curved wall. You can also use this to Extrude Text.
Symbols are generally thought of as relatively small repeating objects. So first of all you should use symbols whenever you need to repeat something, like sanitary fixtures, light fixtures, furniture, and so on.
When you install a new computer program, the program uses something called the file extension (the three letters after the dot on the filename). Often, when users install a new version of Vectorworks, they do not want the new version of Vectorworks to open the old files, so they choose…
In previous versions of Vectorworks, you were unable to tell Vectorworks where in the wall you should put the wall framing.