When you use a door as an Opening, you sometimes see thin lines on the edges of it. They are there to allow you to select the door (or window) and make changes. To make the outline to be completely invisible, choose a class for the Interior Jamb–this is the…
Windows, like doors, can be placed in a wall and like the doors, the first thing you should do it to check the preferences for the windows to make sure that the window you place has the settings you want. If you do this first, you will find that the…
Doors have a class for the Reflected Ceiling Plan. This class is used to show the wall line above the door. Sometimes, when you place a door, you still see the line where a wall was. Often this is the class called Ceiling-Main. When you turn this class off the…
Some users do not know how to place doors and windows accurately, so they place the door then move it to the correct location. This is the slow way to work. If you knew the fast way to do it, you would be more accurate, you would speed up your…
When you place doors in a wall, you can use the Offset Insertion Mode to ensure that you are accurately placing them. This will make it fast and accurate to place the doors as they will be in the correct place the first time, saving you from editing their position.
This movie is a short introduction to the Door object in Vectorworks. This object is a great way to create doors in 2D and 3D. If you insert the door in a wall, it will punch the hole for you automatically. The doors are very flexible with several configurations to…
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.
Doors in Vectorworks allow you to create 2D and 3D versions of the door or opening. If you create a door, there are several types of doors you can make (hinged, bi-fold, sliding, overhead) and you can also use the door to create an opening. So if you need an…
BIM (Building Information Modeling) seems to be a hot topic at the moment and there are many users who do not have a clear understanding of what BIM really is. These sessions are the online sessions for the SST_1401 manual.
Introduction to BIM – BIM (Building Information Modeling) is not just about drawings, it is about the way you create your design. BIM is not so much about the model as it is about the activity of Building Information Modeling (creating the 3D, creating information and making that information available to…