Gradients are a great way of applying a graphic style to your drawings. Gradients are colors (not images) but they can change from one color to another. You can make a gradient with several colors if you want.
Creating Gradients
Applying Images. Images can be applied to an object from the Resource Browser, or from the Attributes Palette. The Attributes Palette will access all the default images that come with Vectorworks, so you should try those first.
Images, Creating Images. Images are a great way of applying a graphic image to your drawings. Images are like the planar equivalent to textures. Images are created from photos or similar files.
Creating Hatches. When you create a hatch, remember that hatches are lines and therefore suit linear patterns.
Lines, Line Weights. You can change the line weights and the dash styles on the Attributes Palette to suit your preferences.
Hatches, Applying Hatches. Hatches are great for representing tiles, bricks, lines, and so on. Hatches are line based graphics, so they are limited to linear type graphics. Another way to assign hatching is to use a hatch command.
Hatches, Applying Hatches. Hatches are great for representing tiles, bricks, lines, and so on. Hatches are line based graphics, so they are limited to linear type graphics.
Dash Styles. Vectorworks offers a line style editor that allows you to create your own dashed line styles, and manage the standard dash styles that come with Vectorworks.
Attributes Palette, Creating a Custom Color Palette and Colors. You can create your own custom color palette. This could be useful on a project where you want to use only specific colors, or you want to control members of a team to just use specific colors.