The core of BIM is that you can create most of your drawings directly from the live model. To do this you need to use Sheet Layers and Viewports. If you do not know anything about Viewports, please have a look at the manual on Setting up drawings for building…
There is more than one way to create the roof, but an easy way to create the roof is to use the walls.
It is pretty standard to add doors and windows to your project. For a BIM project the doors and windows have to be inserted into the walls. If you place them correctly Vectorworks will insert them into the wall and edit the wall for you to remove the area of…
Like walls, slabs can have components, so you can make slabs and ceilings that have several components. The slabs can link to walls and slab components can link to the wall components. So it is really important that you create your walls and slabs in relation to each other.
If you store your wall styles in your user folder or workgroup folder, they can be selected directly from the pop-up menu on the Tool bar.
Top Level Walls. The top level walls are similar to the rest of the walls in the file, but they need to be set up so that the top bounding is not the Finished Floor (Story Above). The top level has no story above, so the walls do not know…
Lower Level Walls. These walls can be more complex than the foundation walls as we can add components to allow us to see the walls more accurately, in plan, elevation and section. You might be used to just showing the framing on your plans, so it might not make sense…
Foundation Walls. We can start with these walls, because they are the least complex. The foundation walls can use the graphic style of the class they are assigned to and they can be set up to link to the finished floor of the story above.
Layers and stories are the keystones of your BIM workflow. Layers are used to divide the project and stories are used to group layers. Stories are an organizing concept that groups design layers to make it easy to adjust different levels of the building. They also allow you to control…
There is a lot of talk about BIM these days, so this manual will introduce you to the concepts. To start, we will use a blank file. This movie will show you how to start with a blank file and set Document settings.