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  • Architect Special Interest Group December 2017 (pm)

    • January 10, 2018
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    • jonathan

      In this session, we looked at the function of stories and levels compared with design layers, as well as how to easily create elevations.

  • Vectorworks Tip #246 – Using Levels to Create Short Walls

    • April 15, 2015
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    Levels are a great way to create short walls. You can create a level to control the top of the wall, then set the top bounding of the wall to that level. Any time you need to adjust the height of the walls, all you need to do is to adjust…

  • Vectorworks Tip #238- Levels and Simple Walls

    • April 2, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Levels can be used to control the elevations of walls. If you set up the required levels, you can use the Object Info palette to connect the walls to the levels. If you change the level elevations, it will update the walls.

  • Vectorworks Tip #234 – Levels and Stairs

    • March 27, 2015
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    • jonathan

    When you create your stairs, you can choose to connect the start (bottom step) and the end (top step) of your stair to levels. This will allow you to create several levels to control the starting and stopping of stairs so that they matched the various levels in your project.

  • Architect_064 Architect Special Interest Group February 2015 (pm)

    • February 28, 2015
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    • jonathan

    Vectorworks 2015 has the ability to tightly control the the settings for walls and slabs by using Stories and Levels. This does require care planning and setting up in the Stories dialog box and in the wall and slab style dialog boxes. This session looks in detail at setting up…

  • Architect_063 Architect Special Interest Group February 2015 (am)

    • February 27, 2015
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    • jonathan

    The questions for today focussed on how to set up wall styles for a renovation project. When you are creating the walls from a survey, you often have several different wall thicknesses, but if you use wall styles, you will end up with several wall styles, so it is better…

  • Architect_062 Architect Special Interest Group January 2015 (pm)

    • January 29, 2015
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    • jonathan

    In this session we looked at setting up Design Layers, Levels, and Stories. There is always some choice about the elevation of Design Layers. The setting out of the Design Layers can be related to the top of the slab, and I usually set the elevation of the top of the ground floor…

  • cadmovie1501_07 – Stories, Layers and Levels – Part 7

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    • jonathan

    Complex Wall Style When it comes to creating a more complex wall style, it is very important that you have already created all of the levels that you need. This image shows a more complex wall style already created. You can see the components in the classes I have used…

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