This can be a fast way to draw walls, as it will automatically join the walls as you draw them. This can save several clicks. As well as that, it will automatically join the wall cores together, saving you several clicks with the Component Join tool, but you have to…
You can use a Renderworks Camera to create a viewport. This makes it fast and accurate to edit the view, and it makes it easy to duplicate viewports and edit the view.
You can use wall styles to control the textures. If you do this, you’ll find that you can change all of the textures on the walls easily by editing the wall style. You can assign the texture to the Wall Component, or you can use the Class settings of the…
If you use wall styles, it is very fast to change the walls from one style to the other. Replacing Walls. This allows you to copy the walls from one layer and then replace the wall style to get a completely different wall, but one that lines up with the…
Some users question my use of Wall Styles. They tell me “surely it’s quicker to make walls unstyled; it saves all that messing around with the dialog box.” Wall styles are for making sure that your walls are created consistently, ensuring that wall thickness, wall height and classes are consistently…
Some users do not know how to place doors and windows accurately, so they place the door then move it to the correct location. This is the slow way to work. If you knew the fast way to do it, you would be more accurate, you would speed up your…
This movie is a short introduction to the Door object in Vectorworks. This object is a great way to create doors in 2D and 3D. If you insert the door in a wall, it will punch the hole for you automatically. The doors are very flexible with several configurations to…
The Connect/Combined Tool is really useful for extending single or multiple lines to a boundary. In this movie I will give you a quick introduction to using this tool. Instead of using this tool you could use the Selection tool to extend lines, but that is slow and unreliable. This…
I do not use my Macintosh for online training, but I was using it the other day and I was surprised to have notifications appearing while I was training. I found that you can turn off the notifications easily in the Notification area (Do Not Disturb), or you can automate…
Wall Styles are a great productivity tool when drawing buildings. They make it quick to change from one wall type to another when you are drawing, they can be stored in your library so that you can use the Wall Styles on every project and the make it easy to change…