I am the author of the Vectorworks Essentials Tutorial Manual. I was recently talking to a university tutor that uses this manual with the students. At the end of the first chapter of this manual the students should be able to draw simple objects and dimension them. The students sometimes…
In this session we looked at a complex 3D modelling problem of a skate park, we looked at creating section viewports, we looked at using section viewports to create internal room elevations, how to add annotations to these elevations and how to create symbols that would assist with the room…
Some users want to be able to draw orthographically (constrained to 0, 90). I usually get this request from AutoCAD users. Hold down the Shift key to constrain linear objects (walls, lines, polygons) to orthographic and other objects (rectangles, ovals) to symmetric. You can also control the angles for ortho drawing…
In this session we looked at several Viewport tricks for dealing with detailed drawings.
When you set up design layer viewports you have the option to choose all of the classes that you want to be visible, or you have the option to use the current documents class settings. You may be confused by what this really means.
This session looked in detail at a few topics, particularly to do with graphics. In previous sessions we have looked at the Attributes Palette and in this session we looked at the connection between classes and graphics.
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.
I have been doing some research on building construction and documentation and I came across this great book “Building Construction Handbook.” This book has been designed to show you from the very basic conceptual principles through to drawing coordination and detailing.
Vectorworks has the ability to constrain one object to another. What this means is that you could place one object, for example the door, and set a constraint so that the door is always relative to another object, for example a wall. In this movie I show you how placing…
Some people like to use section viewports to create the drawings, other people like to use line drawings to create their sections. In this movie I show you how you can take a section viewport and convert it into a line drawing.