Interactive Settings – Background Colour. The standard settings for the background colour are to have a white background colour for Top/Plan view, and a slight minty colour for 3D views. The reasoning for this is that it helps you to see when you change from a Top/Plan view to another…
The Interactive Appearance Settings are designed to give you control over the way Vectorworks looks, not the way that it behaves. There are numerous settings here, allowing you to change such things as the screen colour, the background colour for perspective views, and preselection colour, to name just a few….
You can change the sky and ground colours using the Interactive Appearance Settings, found in the Vectorworks Preferences.
The standard Vectorworks pre-selection colour is orange. The standard Vectorworks colour for selected objects is also orange, which makes it hard to see when object is selected and when it is pre-selected. This can cause some confusion. If you change the pre-selection colour it to make it easier to see the…
The snap box is the area around your cursor that allows Vectorworks to snap onto objects. If you go to your Vectorworks preferences you will find that you can change the size of the snap box and change the size of the selection box (this is the area around the…