I have a client that is having trouble with dimensioning an elevation. The view needs to be and elevation of some joinery. The easy way to dimension this is to use sheet layers and viewports. The plan viewport is easy to deal with. Put the dimensions in the design layer,…
Creating and editing General Notes. If you have a database of notes, this is a very quick way to create a large number of general notes.
The Character Palette for the mac is similar to the Character Map for the windows machine, it shows you all the odd symbols.
Annotation is more than just putting text and dimensions on the drawing, although I will be covering this to make sure you are doing it correctly, there are note tools, tools to store a database of notes and tools for labeling.
The Elevation Benchmark tool is really useful for placing a benchmark on your elevations with the correct height on it. Then if you move the benchmark the height can be set to automatically update to the new elevation.
If you are in Australia or New Zealand you will have access to the VAANZ Drawing Border. This tool works differently to the standard sheet border.
You can edit the symbol used to create a standard title block (sheet border).
The standard title block, or sheet border, is a great way to put a title block on your drawing. In newer versions of Vectorworks the sheet border will also pick up the sheet layer name, and layer number, and put these in the title block for you.
The Callout tool is used to place notes on the drawing with arrows pointing to the object that the notes refer to. The callout tool can be used to place a note that you type in, it can be used to place a note from a database of notes, and…
The Section-Elevation marker is used to place the section or elevation line on your plans.