Landscape Areas – The Landscape Area tool will create a polygon shaped area that can represent an area of landscape. This area can include plants (with specific settings for spacing and species) or it can be used just to represent an area (lawn, planted areas, water, tracks, etc.). When you create…
Planting – A plant in Vectorworks is a special object that has a plan representation, a model (or 3D) representation, and plant data. All these parts are bound together inside the object called a plant. When you place a plant, Vectorworks places all of these parts together in the drawing. This…
Site Modifiers – After you have created your site model, it can be modified using site modifying tools. Site modifies can be roads, hardscapes, landscape walls, pads, stake objects or 3D polygons.
Site Modeling – A site model shows 3D data (spot levels or contours) in a way that allows you to see complex 3D models and 2D representations. Vectorworks uses the 3D information to create the models based on the data to help you understand the 2D and 3D nature of…
Basic Principles – The basic concept of BIM is that you are not creating basic 2D information, you are creating 3D objects that have information attached to them.
There is a lot of talk about Building Information Modelling (BIM) in relation to architecture, but not a lot of talk about Building Information Modeling in relation to landscape. The principles behind BIM can be used to speed up the production of your landscape projects and drawings. One of the…
This was a session that started to look at reporting materials. Starting with simple walls, we looked at how to report the areas and materials from them. Then we created more complex walls and looked at how to report the different materials from the walls.
This session looked at a variety of topics, starting with detailling, curtain wall glazing, sheet borders (title blocks), planar graphics on buildings and ending with stair graphics.
IFC Exporting and Importing. There has been a lot of talk recently about Building Information Modelling. In some countries this has become a major topic because some governments are moving towards a situation where all projects will be delivered using BIM principles. A major part of BIM this is to…
Reports – Another major benefit of BIM is the ability to create a multitude of reports, e.g. about objects, areas and many other data. Vectorworks has a built-in worksheet system that you can use to create these reports. If you have never seen the Vectorworks worksheeets before, I recommend you…