• cadmovie566 – Intermediate Annotation Part 12

    Grid Bubble.This can be used to create a series of grids, with bubbles for a project. You could use this for the Building Grid, in details to show the detail in relation to the building grid, or where I come from, you could use this as a grid for the…

  • cadmovie563 – Intermediate Annotation Part 9

    The General Notes tool will place notes from your note database. You can specify the location of the notes and you select notes from the database. The General Notes tool can use the same notes database as the callout tool, or you can use different one. If you use the…

  • cadmovie559 – Intermediate Annotation Part 5

    Adding More Notes to The Note Database. Normally, you will have some notes that you have used before. These might be notes in a word processor, or they might be notes form other Vectorworks drawings. You can use these notes to fill in your note database. This can be a really…

  • cadmovie558 – Intermediate Annotation Part 4

    Adding Sections and Notes. If you use the note database, you could easily have hundreds of notes in the database. This makes it hard to find the notes you want. The answer is to divide your note database into sections. you could then have all the notes that relate to a…

  • cadmovie557 – Intermediate Annotation Part 3

    Creating a Note Database.You can use the callout tool without using a database if you want, but you are losing a lot of power. The callout works really well if you get the text from a database. This allows you to set up database of standard notes that you can…

  • cadmovie555 – Intermediate Annotation Part 1

    The callout tool can be used to place a note with an arrow. In its simplest way, you can type in the note you want and have the arrow line go from the  text to the object.

  • cadmovie543 – What’s New in Vectorworks 2011 Part 6

    Assigning a Text Style to Other Objects. Many of the annotation objects can accept text styles. You drag and drop the text style onto the object, and the text style is assigned to an object. Be careful with this, not all object accept text styles, nor use all the settings.