cadmovie_1610-07 – What’s New In Vectorworks 2017 – Part 7
Drop Shadows – You will find the Drop Shadow controls on the Attributes palette.
Drop Shadows – You will find the Drop Shadow controls on the Attributes palette.
Pen And Fill Opacity – Vectorworks have separated the opacity so you can control the fill without affecting the pen opacity.
The main topics covered: importing and upgrading an old project default attributes unified view and unified view options creating a corner stair and stair tools adding tools to your workspace locating old (legacy) tools and adding these to your workspace editing and managing workspaces
In this session we looked at the Attributes Defaults, as there still seems to be some confusion on the 2 types of defaults that you can have. After this we looked at creating symbols and the relevance of creating classes to use inside the symbol, and classes that should be applied…
This session looked at Line Types and the Landscape Area tool. We looked at how to create, edit and apply various line types and the difference between ‘Page Based Units’ and ‘World Based Units’. Line Types are a Resource that can be saved into your User Folder for future use…
Beginner Tip – Use the Attribute palette to adjust the line type settings of complex line types to suit the current situation. Click on the Line Type Settings button on the Attribute palette to edit the settings and change the local mapping of the line type.
Another method to assign a line type is to use the Resource Browser. Drag-and-drop the required line style from the resource browser onto the object.
There are many times when you drawing linear objects in Vectorworks where you do not want to have solid line. In this case you would want to use a Line Type. There are two sorts of line types, simple (dashed) and complex (lines with graphic editions). Earlier versions of Vectorworks called them…
Tiles are substantially easier to create than hatches. Where a hatch uses repeatable lines, a tile uses a repeatable set of lines, polygons, circles, rectangles, etc. This means that instead of trying to figure out how the lines repeat you can just draw what you want. Because tiles contain objects…
There are times where you want to change the rotation or the scale of your tile, but just for one object. In this situation you can use the attributes palette to change the local mapping of the tile assigned to the object. You can also use the attribute mapping tool…