FAQ

Adding to the Bracket With Automatic Working Planes. With automatic working planes you can work in any view that suits you.

Adding To The Bracket Without Automatic Working Planes. Without automatic working planes you have to work in a view that suits the direction of your extrusion.

Fillet Edge. Vectorworks offers a 3D equivalent to the 2D fillet tool that enables you to shape the edges of 3D objects.

Split Tool. The Split Tool is useful for editing 3D Objects.

Creating Holes With Automatic Working Planes. With Automatic Working Planes you can now work mainly in 3D views.

Creating Holes Without Automatic Working Planes. Before Automatic Working Planes most of your object creation for modeling would have to be done in either a plan view or in a view that suited your extrusion direction.

Extrusions in Vectorworks Prior To 2011. All versions prior Vectorworks 2011 lack the concept of Screen Plane and Layer Plane. You have to be very careful in what view you are in before you create / extrude an object.

Extrusions in Vectorworks 2011. With Vectorworks 2011 you can still create a rectangle in the same way but you can’t extrude it in the same way.

Extrusions in Vectorworks 2012. If you are using Vectorworks 2012 you can  go straight to an isometric view and draw a rectangle. Then use the Push/Pull mode to extrude the drawn rectangle.