It has become a tradition to have our last session of the year review all the topics we covered previously this year and look at the topics that we might want to cover next year. It has also become a tradition to open up the sessions to everybody, Not just…
It is tempting to think that if we covered the design of the kitchen, that would be enough. But also like to show you how you can use Vectorworks for creating more of an interior design that showed details of the kitchen, how the kitchen connects to other rooms, demolition,…
For Vectorworks 2017 we have five major new technologies: Resource Manager Camera Match Structural Member Objects Irrigation Tools Virtual Reality We will be covering these technologies in detail, probably later in the year or early next year, but in this manual there will be a brief overview of them. Last…
Vectorworks has the ability to create quick conceptual models, this will allow you to create a site plan, existing buildings, proposed buildings, and then analyse the areas of these buildings compare to the site. As well as being able to create the plan information you want, you can also create the…
Vectorworks has the ability to create roofs from polygons and walls, and it has the ability to automatically generate some roofs accessories, but not all the accessories that you might require. For example, Vectorworks will create roofs, facias, and soffits, but it will not create ridge flashings, barge flashings, barge…
Just lately, I have been teaching several users who want to move from using a workflow to using Building Information Modelling (3D workflow). In the past, I had several users who would say “I want to get to the under my belt first then look at 3D.” This suggests that…
Energos is a system in Vectorworks that allows you to look at the overall energy consumption of your project. It includes the summer and winter climate and it uses the building elements in the file to do the calculations. This means that you have to use a full BIM model…
Some projects need more than one person to work on them. Maybe the project is large, maybe the deadline is short, but either way, you need more than one person on the project. Normally, you can only have one person working on the file at a time. So, you could…
Subdivision modelling is a new area for Vectorworks. It was introduced it Vectorworks 2016 and it will allow Vectorworks to create extremely complex smooth curving shapes. Subdivision services have been around for some time as a computer technology, but not implemented in computer programs very often. The subdivision surfacing techniques…
In these sessions we are going to cover setting up an Alteration and Addition project. I sometimes call these rennovation projects, but as someone recently pointed out, rennovation suggests repairing. These sessions are really about setting up an existing building which we can then amend to suit. We will start with a discussion…