Use More Classes, Use Fewer Layers – Layers should be where you have drawing the information, classes should be what the information is. For example, the walls are drawn on Floor 1, the class tells you that the walls are existing, proposed, or demolished.
This is the movie from the BIM Special Interest Group, September 2012, creating a BIM workflow, Part 4, setting up drawings using viewports and sheet layers. (morning session)
This is the movie from the second session Landmark Special Interest Group, August 2012. We are looking at starting a template file and simple drawing techniques.
Class options are extremely important when you are using Vectorworks. Choosing the right class options will make it easy to use Vectorworks. Choosing the wrong class options will always make Vectorworks difficult to use
This is a recording from the January Beyond Beginners session. We looked at rules for creating classes. You can create an almost unlimited number of classes, but should you? Wouldn’t it be better to have a strategy for making classes?
Stories. For complex projects it is sometimes easier to break them up into manageable chunks. In this example we will use Stories to control the elevation heights, design layers for modeling and classes to control visibility and graphic style of object.
Assigning Textures Using Classes. If you set up your file early on to use textures for specific classes that you want to texture then you have an advantage when it is time to assign the textures. By going to the classes dialog you can then texture all the objects of a…
I saw a request on a community board recently. The Vectorworks user wanted to select a viewport, and use the Object Info Palette to change the layer and class visibilities, on the same dialog box. It’s not currently possible to do this, but there is a workaround, and that is…
At this point, I have used the background as much as I need. For a while it will be easier to change the layer options, and make the background invisible. You can use the Navigation palette to do this.
Creating Layers and Classes for Counting. We are going to create worksheets to count information. There are several ways to count information, using line color, line weight, and so on. But for what we want to count, layers and classes will do.