• Vectorworks Tip #258 – Walls – Setting Curtain Wall Frame Preferences

    Intermediate Tip – There are two main parts to the curtain wall – the frames and the panels. The frames have options to control the boundary and intermediate frames. There are several options, so work your way though the options carefully.

  • Vectorworks Tip #256 – Site Modeling – Site Modifiers – Custom Kerb

    Intermediate Tip – This is the road to use when you what to create a road and have flexibility over the shape and kerb arrangement. This road allows you to use the Reshape tool to add vertices, hide kerbs and change vertex types. In the image you can see that…

  • Vectorworks Tip #255 – Plants – Placing a Plant Schedule

    Intermediate Tip – After you have placed plants, you can count them. Vectorworks comes with pre-made plant schedules that will count all the plants in the design. You can access these from the Tool > Reports > Choose Schedule… command and place them anywhere in the drawing. 

  • Vectorworks Tip #254 – Walls – Creating a Curtain Wall Style

    Intermediate Tip – Creating a curtain wall style is similar to creating a regular wall style – both use the Wall Preferences dialog box. The difference in creating a curtain wall style is that you click on the curtain wall option which will show you different settings for the definition…

  • Vectorworks Tip #252 – Site Modeling – Site Modifiers – Polygon Road

    Intermediate Tip – The Polygon Road tool is the road tool to use if you want to create a road that has the typical straight-curve-straight road look. Because this is a polygon road, you can reshape the curve accurately using the Reshape tool.

  • Vectorworks Tip #251 – Plants – Creating Custom Plant Classes

    Intermediate Tip – As well as the default classes for your plants, you can also create your own classes to control parts of the plants. In this image, you can see several other classes that deal with plants but are not the default classes. I use these classes to control…