Beginner Tip – The first mode on the Tool bar allows you to move a vertex. You would use this if you wanted to change just one part of a polygon or polyline. This can be used on more than just polygons and polylines, it can be used on all…
Beginner Tip – The Reshape tool is used to edit the vertices that control polyline-based objects. This tool allows to move the vertex, change the vertex type, add a vertex, remove a vertex and hide edges.
Beginner Tip – Use the Resource Browser to create a new Line Type. Use World Units for line types that should be based on real world sizes. Keep the graphics short and simple. If you make the main part of the line type too long, it will not be able…
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.
There is more than one way to assign a line type to an object. The first way is to use the Attributes palette. This method requires you to choose line type first, then choose the actual line type required. Some users suggest that this takes too many clicks.
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…
Like the other attributes, you can use the Attribute palette or the Resource Browser to assign tiles to your objects
Although patterns are an old technique, they might still be useful. Vectorworks can only present about 64 patterns (due to the size of the palette) but you can edit the patterns that are there. The command is in the Edit menu.
Patterns have a foreground and a background colour and each can be edited separately. Click on the appropriate button to edit the foreground or background colour. This allows you to create other colours by combining the two colours.