Make 2008 a great year for you! I know people that don’t have good luck, things they want to do don’t work out. Yet other people are successful, things seem to work out for them. I know this can sound simplistic, but generally 2008 will go the way you truly…
On the Macintosh we have been able to use layer opacity (the ability to make things semi-transparent) with VectorWorks 12.5. But the Windows people have had to put up not having this ability. So, if you wanted to add shadows to a building, like this one, it was OK on…
OpenGL rendering has been improved substantially in VectorWorks 2008. OpenGL is one of the fastest rendering modes and when you use the walkthrough tool it is the rendering mode that stays rendered as you walk through. So, it has been a useful mode, even if it is a bit low-fi….
In the past you could only make the whole drawing show color or black/white. This limited the way that you could show your drawings. Now with VectorWorks 2008 you can choose which viewports show color and which viewports show black/white. This will allow you to be much more flexible when…
With earlier versions of VectorWorks we were limited to 256 colors in the color palette. You could get around this by tricking VectorWorks with gradients, but with VectorWorks 2008 you don’t have to. The Color Palette has been completely overhauled. You are no longer limited to 256 colors. You could…
Until now, you could only choose one sort of rendering for each viewport. The workaround for this was to create a copy of the first viewport directly on top of the first viewport. This works OK, until you want to change the view on the viewport. With VectorWorks 2008, you…
VectorWorks 2008 makes it easier to create your own custom dash styles. Earlier version of VectorWorks where a pain to make specific dash styles. VectorWorks 2008 makes it easier because you can type in your own dash and gap lengths. This topic is covered in the November on-line user group….
I saw a discussion on the Nemetschek North America tech board about design layer viewports or layers links. Watch this to see my opinion.
I was teaching VectorWorks today and showed them this trick, using the ceiling grid to draw hatching on elevations. Hatches can be good for elevations, but if you are using sheet material then try using the Ceiling Grid. The Ceiling grid is fantastic for sheet type cladding because you can…
I’m trying an experiment with uploading my movies to you tube.