FAQ

  • Property Line Tool – Part 2

    • October 21, 2012
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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Creating a Site Plan From a Polygon – If you can draw a polygon of the site, you can make it into a Property Line.

  • Property Line Tool – Part 1

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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Drawing Simple Site Plans – The Property Line toll makes quick work of simple site plans. If the Sites do not have curves use this method.

  • Layers and Classes – Part 3

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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Storing a Layer and Class Standard – When you create a Layer and Class Standard, it is important to store it in the correct location so that Vectorworks can use it.

  • Layers and Classes – Part 2

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    • jonathan

    Creating a Layer and Class Standard – When you create a lot of drawings it’s essential that your drawings are similar to each other in the way they are set up, a standard will do that for you.

  • Layers and Classes – Part 1

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      • Vectorworks
    • jonathan

    Use More Classes, Use Fewer Layers – Layers should be where you have drawing the information, classes should be what the information is. For example, the walls are drawn on Floor 1, the class tells you that the walls are existing, proposed, or demolished.

  • Graphics – Part 15

    • October 19, 2012
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    • jonathan

    Creating Tiles – When you create a tile, you draw the object that you want to repeat, and you can see how it relates to the rest of the tile.

  • Graphics – Part 14

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    • jonathan

    Applying Tiles – Use the Resource Browser or the Attributes Palette to apply tiles.

  • Graphics – Part 13

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    • jonathan

    Tiles – A Tile is a repeatable graphic, like a hatch. But, it is much more graphic than a hatch, and easier to edit.

  • Graphics – Part 12

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    • jonathan

    Object Opacity – Object opacity is the ability to make an object transparent. For an elevation like this we could draw shadows for the building and make them transparent.

  • Graphics – Part 11

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    • jonathan

    Attribute/Mapping tool. – This is the tool you use to change the position and scaling of images and gradients.

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