An image prop is where you take an image file and convert it into a 3D object in VectorWorks. The image file could be a photograph of a tree, a person, or even a sketch that has been scanned. In your exercise file I have scanned a couple of hand-drawn…
How to add hatching to a 3D model so that you can see line textures rather than colour textures. Some computer programs allow you to easily add line textures, but not VectorWorks. But there is a workaround that I want to show you.
If you have a 3D model, you can use this to make drawings. Our exercise is to make this 3D model into two drawings using sheet layers and viewports.
Vectorworks has a built-in solar animation command.
In this podcast I will show you how the chain extrude tool. The chain extrude tool makes it really quick to draw the cross section through a balcony roof or varandah roof and extrude it.
Rendering in VectorWorks is where you start to enjoy your 3D Models, where you make them come to life. This workshop is an introduction to rendering (which is pretty easy), but rendering is nothing without textures which can make your models into something special.
The RenderWorks Camera tool allows you to make a view similar to the Set 3D View, but it’s an object that you can move around and edit, so it’s more useful than the Set 3D command.
This podcast shows you how to make a drape surface over your site models to give your site model a more curved look. I also show you how you can project a road outline onto the draped surface.
The Loft Surface tool creates smooth curving shapes.
Extruding a rectangle to form a block is OK as far as it goes, but to make complex shapes in 3D you need to be able to add solid objects together and also subtract one from the other. Solid Modelling allows us to add extrusions together and it allows us…