Landmark_SIG_046 Special Interest Group March (am) 2014
In this session we looked at several Viewport tricks for dealing with detailed drawings.
In this session we looked at several Viewport tricks for dealing with detailed drawings.
In this session we looked at plants in 3D, how to get the information you need to make them and how to place them on a site model.
In this session we looked at plants in 3D. You can use the VBVisual Plant tool, you can use image props, or you can make your own 3D plants. We looked at some fun 3D modelling techniques to see how the can be used to make a 3D plant.
In this session we looked at a large landscape area and how to deal with it. This means looking at layers and classes and how these should be used.
In this session we looked at looking at ways of optimizing the graphics card as Vectorworks 2014 requires more resources, we compared the main screen of Windows 7 & Windows 8, we had a brief look at Scripting and the Utilities palette as well as the Custom Tool / Attributes…
In this webinar we looked at the problem of creating a swale on a sloping site. This is a detailed problem and it required us to look at site modifiers and site sections. The swale needed to create a scoop out at the front then take that soil and mound…
In this session we looked at hatches, tiles, and briefly, gradients. There is a manual already written for planar graphics (SST_1107) which sets out the basic principles, but there are still questions. This is a great session for getting into the detail of hatches and tiles. Hatches are not an…
In this session we looked at the Landscape Area tool. The Landscape Area tool is extremely useful when you are trying to plant large areas, if you try and create a budget plan, or if you trying to create a landscape concept plan. The tool has several options we looked…
This session looked at getting library objects from the VSS web site, the Vectorworks Community Board, how to send ideas to Vectorworks, and how to edit the default content.
I recorded the movie for the special-interest group but unfortunately my recording program crashed at the end of the session in the entire movie was lost. I have re-created most of the topics that we talked about in this short 15 min. movie. The main topic we covered was custom…