• cadmovie375 – Planar Graphics

    In the past it used to be confusing when you changed to a 3D view and the 2D objects would be all over the screen.  Planar graphics lets you choose to have the 2D objects appear like a 3D object.

  • podcast 106 – Associative Hatching Vectorworks 2010

    One of the things I hate about associate hatching is that there is no way to control the insertion point of the hatch, or the angle, or scale. Well, that was until Vectorworks 2010. Now we have the ability to move the origin of the hatch, rotate the hatch and…

  • podcast 104 – Auto Joining Wall Components in Vectorworks 2010

    This is really cool. If you set up your wall styles correctly, you can auto join the structural components of the walls. The setting is on wall style preferences, just tell Vectorworks which component is the core.

  • podcast 103 – Custom Line Styles in Vectorworks

    A client emailed today to ask about the custom line styles. Im not sure if this is exactly like the AutoCAD custom line style, might it is a line with a symbol in it.

  • podcast 086 – Drawing Walls for an Elliptical Plan

    I saw someone on the Vectorworks Community board asking about drawing walls for an elliptical plan. I have a workaround. Its a workaround because the plan is not really an ellipse, but it looks close.