A couple of weeks before Christmas my son went up to his Granddad’s farm to help get the hay in. Of course, these days it’s all tractors and large bails of hay that you move around with ease. A couple of weeks later my son was helping to spread fertilizer…
using the constrain angle constraint
I’ve heard of this trick before, but I hadnt used it. This podcast will show you how to remove several vertices from a polygon. this makes it fast to remove a large part from a polygon or polyline.
Vectorworks 2009 has a new tool for setting the visibility of layers and classes. I used to have a tool that would do part of what this tool does. This tool is highly recommend for controlling information on complex drawings.
A big improvement in the general use of Vectorworks is the improvement in snapping. At first it didnt look much to me, but as I started to use Vectorworks 2009 more I noticed how useful the new snaps are. combined with the pre-selection highlighting, you can see where the snaps…
In the past, when I’ve been working on a complex worksheet, I have sometimes found I cant read the text in the worksheet. Until now there has ben no way to make the worksheet easier to work on. Now with Vectorworks 2009 there is a new command to zoom a…
This is an old VectorWorks trick. if you use layer colors on a multistory build it makes it easy to see what floor information is on.
I’ve started to place my podcasts on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/archoncad
there is a new option in VectorWorks 2009, the ability to show other objects while in groups, but to show them in gray.
VectorWorks 2009 has several interface changes. I found this one really useful, its called the snap loupe and it allows you to zoom in temporarily. its like putting a zoom loupe on your drawing so you can snap in a complex drawing. This is a big improvement. I’ve gotten so…