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…
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.
Continuing on from the Special Interest Group 033, were now starting to take our project into the conceptual design drawings for a single unit. You have a choice – you can create your drawings in a separate file (the referenced house file) or you can use the combined site plan…
Vectorworks does not allow you to have objects the have the same name. Names in Vectorworks have to be unique. if you have been to one of my courses or watched a movie about viewports, you will have heard me say that the Viewport Name has to be unique. You cant…
I was teaching some of my clients the other day and I mentioned being able to count the number of symbols in the plan. We were looking at the interior design of commercial projects. They were not aware that you could count all the symbols easily with worksheets. Counting the…
When new users start Vectorworks, and they have previous AutoCAD experience, they often use AutoCAD terminology to describe Vectorworks objects and concepts. Some AutoCAD objects sound like the same name as a Vectorworks object, but they may not be.
I was chatting to my friend Steve Scaysbrook from the Konstruckshon blog today. We were looking at connecting our Evernote database to a Vectorworks drawing. We certainly found a way to do it.
I have been reading the Vectorworks tech board recently. Generally this community board is there for users to help each other and mostly it works well for that. There are some visitors to the site that seem to want to complain about Vectorworks. Be careful about believing the opinions on…
Sometimes, i make the mistake of creating my section viewports with the wrong direction. This might seem like a problem, but it is not. On the Object Info palette there is a button to reverse the direction of the Section Viewport.
This session looked at basic technical drawing skills and whether they should be taught as part of Vectorworks or whether they should be taught separately. There is an argument that these basic skills should be understood before the students learn to use the power of Vectorworks.