FAQ

Creating a worksheet that will provide a budget price of all the Hardscape areas.

When you have all the hardscape areas, it would be nice to fill in the grassed areas. You could use the hardscape tool and click on every corner of the site, house and paving, but there is a much quicker way. If you draw a polygon, we can convert it…

Creating areas of hardscape.

When you have a shape that is awkward to draw with the Hardscape tool, use the Objects From Polyline… command.

Where the hardscape is not square on the screen, use the Rotate Plan tool to rotate the view. This will make it easier to draw hardscape.

Creating Tiles

Tiles, Applying Tiles. Tiles are a great way of making a more detailed and graphic hatch. Unlike hatches, tiles can be drawn from any planar graphic, meaning that instead of just lines, you can use rectangles, circles, ovals, and so on.

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.