With out text and dimensions, your drawings are pretty sad. Annotation is a fundamental part of drawing. Annotation is more than just putting text and dimensions on the drawing, although I will be covering this to make sure you are doing it correctly, there are note tools, tools to store…
I’ve been spending the last couple of months updating my Vectorworks manuals for 2010. I have several clients asking if they should upgrade to the new version of Vectorworks. If you are working on Vectorworks 12.5, then yes, upgrade right now. There are so many advances in Vectorworks since you last…
Camera Match is a 3rd Party Plugin to Vectorworks. This means that is doesn’t come as a standard. You have to buy it. I think you will find that this Plug-in saves so much time with visualization, that it pays for itself the first time you use it. I know…
You might think that the Plug-ins that come with Vectorworks are locked. It’s true that you can’t see the computer code and change it, but there is still a lot you can edit.
Worksheets are very powerful, but to most people they are a mystery. This workshop will open your eyes and unlock the power of worksheets. If you are interested in BIM, then worksheets are the way to access the information attached to objects. If you want to count, quantify or schedule…
Your office library is not just a few symbols saved in a library.
I have seen many tips and tricks on creating drawings, but not many on creating construction drawings. When I was writing the last manual on creating drawings, I wanted to cover creating construction details, but I felt that would have made the manual too long.
In the past the user group has covered layers, classes and viewports. The feed back I am getting is that this is still an area that people are confused about. When should you use a class, when should you use a layer? How do you create drawings from the stuff…
I often find that the standard Vectorworks roof will not make the roof I want.
In this workshop we will learn how to draw a deck in Vectorworks using a few different methods so you can create drawings for a deck, and which method makes it most productive to draw and quantify the timber in the deck.