(Napier, New Zealand) 29 May 2009 Archoncad announces Short Sharp Manuals NEW – SHORT SHARP MANUALS – unlock the power of Vectorworks!!! Archoncad is pleased to announce SHORT SHARP MANUALS – a resource ‘library’ of concise manuals each exploring a single Vectorworks topic – to show you how to unlock…
Ive been using this technique since Vectorworks 2008, so if you are still using Vectorworks 12 you are missing this technique. The Heads-up Display looks really good, but it is much better than just looking good, it really speeds up the way you draw. Use the Tool bar to set…
One of my Landscape clients works with large areas of planting. They find the place plant tool very slow. Much too slow to be useful. An new tool in Vectorworks 2009 makes planting large areas quicker and more powerful.
I’m just writing a section in my new productivity manual, and I remembered this trick. Right now I’m writing about how to make your own stair library. The stairs so up on the Resource Browser in plan view if that was the view when you created the symbols. They look…
This month, the Short Sharp Training monthly manual looked at detailing. I have seen several tutorials and tips and tricks for creating drawings, but hardly any for drawing details. Strange really, when we spend so much time on our detailing as architects and landscapers. This month the manual was a…
What is the Vectorworks library? That’s a terrible question really. it should be ”What ARE the Vectorworks libraries? • Symbol library (which you can store anywhere) • Symbol libraries for tools (stored in the Defaults folder) • Layer and class standards (stored in the Standards folder) • Hatch library (stored…
I like guides. They are really useful for helping to draw, for setting out, for setback lines and so on. Guides are easy to create. Draw a line or any other object, then go to the Menu bar and choose Modify > Guides > Make Guides. Vectorworks turns your objects…
I’ve been using Vectorworks since version 10, so I thought I pretty much knew everything. I upgraded to Vectorworks 2009 and thought I would get a few pointers on the upgrade. I was reluctant to employ Jonathan over the Internet to teach me. After all, why not get him here…
I want to recommend this blog for people in the construction industry. It is focused on the UK, but I still find it interesting reading. The guy that writes the blog, Steve Scaysbrook, is a good sort and I often chat with Steve via skype (www.skype.com). I don’t know where…
I saw a a neat trick the other day for controlling revisions on drawings. each revision has a revision cloud, using the Vectorworks revision cloud tool, and a stamp, using the Vectorworks revision stamp. The clouds and bubbles are placed in the Annotation part of each viewport. But that is…