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  • epodcast166 – Creating a Demolished Window

    • November 8, 2012
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    • jonathan

    When you’re using a standard window in Vectorworks you can create  a window that shows that it has been demolished, and that it has an area of proposed wall to go with it.

  • epodcast165 – Creating a Non-Standard Door

    • October 29, 2012
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    • jonathan

    If you use the standard door object in Vectorworks, it allows you to create a non-standard door. However, there are a few steps you need to go through in order to make this happen. In this example I show 3D model of a door with a chamfer cut off the…

  • epodcast164 – Assigning Textures to Texture Beds

    • October 28, 2012
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    • jonathan

    I have had some questions about using texture beds on site models. There is a movie called Site Modelling – Part 13 which shows you how to create a texture bed on a site model. The question really relates to applying not just a color, but an actual texture.

  • epodcast163 – Importing old Vectorworks Plant database into Vectorworks 2013

    • October 23, 2012
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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Last week, when I was looking at the plant database and Vectorworks 2013, I had trouble importing plants from my old plant database into the new Vectorworks 2013 plant database. At first I thought this was a serious flaw, but I have since learned that there is a way to…

  • epodcast162 – Spoof or Phish emails

    • October 11, 2012
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    • jonathan

    Sometimes, I get an e-mail pretending to be from PayPal, my bank, or even a bank I do not belong to. E-mails that try to trick you into giving them money, or try to trick you into giving away your passwords, are called phishing e-mails. These e-mails are sent out…

  • epodcast161 – Editing Your Profile

    • October 6, 2012
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    • jonathan

    This website allows you to edit your profile. You are not allowed to edit your username but you are allowed to change your password and set your options for the weekly e-mail about the posts that have been uploaded.

  • epodcast160 – Adding an Image Prop to a Plant

    • September 26, 2012
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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    I have created other movies about image props, and how to make them, but it appears that there is still some confusion about how to deal with the images in Photoshop, then  bring those into Vectorworks to create your image prop and put the image prop as part of your…

  • epodcast158 – Backing up and Restoring Files on Windows 7

    • September 11, 2012
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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Windows comes with a Backup system that you can use to create daily, Weekly, Monthly backups of you most valuable files. If one of your Vectorworks files becomes corrupt, you can often go back to an earlier version to save the project.

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